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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1969

Pages
  
189 pp

Publisher
  
Lancer Books

Country
  
United States of America

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Series
  
Conan the Barbarian

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1969

Cover artist
  
Frank Frazetta

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Authors
  
Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Sword and sorcery, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Works by Robert E Howard, L Sprague de Camp books, Conan Universe books

Conan of Cimmeria is a collection of eight fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines. The book was first published in paperback by Lancer Books in 1969, and reprinted in 1970, 1972 and 1973. After the bankruptcy of Lancer, publication was taken over by Ace Books. Its first edition was published in May 1977, and was reprinted in August 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982 (twice), 1984, 1985, 1990 and 1993. The first British edition was published by Sphere Books in 1974, and was reprinted in 1976 and 1987. The book has also been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Italian. It was gathered together with Conan and Conan the Freebooter into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (Sphere Books, August 1989).

Contents

Contents

  • "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "The Curse of the Monolith" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
  • "The Blood-Stained God" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "The Frost Giant's Daughter" (Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp)
  • "The Lair of the Ice Worm" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
  • "Queen of the Black Coast" (Robert E. Howard)
  • "The Vale of Lost Women" (Robert E. Howard)
  • "The Castle of Terror" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
  • "The Snout in the Dark" (Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
  • Plot summary

    In a number of episodes Conan, now in his mid- to late-twenties, is followed from the end of his career as a mercenary soldier for King Yildiz of Turan to his initial adventures in the black kingdoms of Kush. In between he visits his native Cimmeria and the far north then makes his way southward where, in Argos, he gets his first taste of life as a sea rover as the right-hand man of the pirate queen BĂȘlit.

    Chronologically, the eight short stories collected as Conan of Cimmeria fall between Conan and Conan the Freebooter.

    References

    Conan of Cimmeria Wikipedia