Conan and the Spider God

Non-Howard material.

Conan and the Spider God is a fantasy novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Bantam Books in December 1980; later paperback editions were issued by Ace Books (April 1989, reprinted August 1991) and Tor Books (June 2003). The first hardcover edition was issued by Robert Hale in 1984, and the second by Tor Books in 2002. It was later gathered together with Conan the Swordsman and Conan the Liberator into the omnibus trade paperback collection Sagas of Conan (Tor Books, 2004).

Conan and the Spider God is the only fictional Conan work credited solely to de Camp; his other Conan stories being collaborations with Howard (posthumously), Lin Carter, and Björn Nyberg. De Camp also wrote numerous non-fiction pieces about Conan and Howard, both alone and with others.

"A Bantam Book / December 1980"
 Printing not stated, no number line
The artist is not credited, no visible signature
Interior illustrations credited to Tim Kirk on title and copyright pages
Interior art consists of drawings of weapons/artifacts/map, nothing to compare to the cover art
At the bottom of the Contents page is a line: Ban.—Conan and the Spider God—B13837-5—P. v—8-20-80 the last part of which may indicate a printing date in August '80
Printed in the US