Edited by L. Sprague de Camp

Conan the Warrior is a 1967 collection of three fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The collection is introduced and edited by L. Sprague de Camp. The stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers and has also been translated into Japanese, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.

Contents

• 6 •  A Map of the World of Conan in the Hyborian Age • (1966) • interior artwork by John D. Clark, Ph.D. and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard and David A. Kyle and P. Schuyler Miller [as by John D. Clark and L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard and David Kyle and P. Schuyler Miller]
• 9 • Introduction (Conan the Warrior) • (1967) • essay by L. Sprague de Camp
• 11 • Red Nails • [Conan] • (1936) • novella by Robert E. Howard
• 92 • Jewels of Gwahlur • [Conan] • (1935) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 136 • Beyond the Black River • [Conan] • (1935) • novella by Robert E. Howard

Plot summary

In these stories from Conan’s late thirties, the Cimmerian becomes involved in the civil wars of a lost city, a contest over treasure in the black kingdoms, and the border wars between the kingdom of Aquilonia and the savage Picts in the wilderness to the west.

Chronologically, the three short stories collected as Conan the Warrior fall between Conan the Buccaneer and Conan the Usurper.

Notes

Reprinted 1984. [This Publication Record].
No printing number line in book.
Copyright © L. Sprague de Camp 1967.
First published in Great Britain by Sphere Books, Ltd 1973.
Reprinted 1976 (four times), 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985
“Red Nails originally published in Weird Tales for July, August/September and October, 1936; copyright 1936 Popular Fiction Co. Reprinted in The Sword of Conan by Robert E. Howard; Gnome Press, Inc. 1952″.
“Jewels of Gwahlur originally published in Weird Tales for March 1935; copyright 1935 Popular Fiction Co. Reprinted in King Conan by Robert E. Howard, Gnome Press, Inc., 1953.”
“Beyond the Black River originally published in Weird Tales for May and June 1935; copyright 1935 Popular Fiction Co. Reprinted in King Conan.
Cover artist not credited in the book. Art is the same as in previous versions.

Se complete Sphere publishing story.