Cover artist Bernie Wrightson Publication date 1968 Pages 148 pp Illustrator Roy Krenkel | Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 1968 Publisher Jack L. Chalker Country United States of America | |
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Genres Essay, Fantasy, Sword and sorcery Similar L Sprague de Camp books, Conan Essays books, Sword and sorcery books | ||
The Conan Reader is a 1968 essay collection by L. Sprague de Camp, published in hardcover by Mirage Press. The essays were originally published as articles in George H. Scithers' fanzine Amra. Mirage subsequently published two companion volumes of essays from Amra, The Conan Swordbook (1969) and The Conan Grimoire (1972). Most of the material in the three volumes, together with some additional material, was later reprinted in two de Camp-edited paperback anthologies from Ace Books; The Blade of Conan (1979) and The Spell of Conan (1980).
The book consists of thirteen pieces on fantasy writer Robert E. Howard and his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, Howard's sources and literary successors, and other fantasy authors such as Fletcher Pratt, Leslie Barringer, and L. Ron Hubbard.