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The Essential Conan

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1998

Pages
  
643 pp

Originally published
  
1998

Publisher
  
Book of the Month Club

Country
  
United States of America

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Series
  
Berkley Conan

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
1-56865-803-6

Cover artist
  
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Genres
  
Short story, Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, Sword and sorcery

Similar
  
Works by Robert E Howard, Conan Universe books, Sword and sorcery books

The Essential Conan is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The book was published in 1998 by the Science Fiction Book Club. It collects the editions of the Conan books, edited by Karl Edward Wagner and published by Berkley Books in 1977. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales, The Phantagraph and The Howard Collector. The Wagner editions were the first to virtually reproduce Howard's original stories without any editorial changes other than typo fixes.

Contents

  • The Hour of the Dragon
  • Foreword, by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "The Hour of the Dragon" (poem)
  • "The Hour of the Dragon"
  • The People of the Black Circle
  • Foreword, by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "The Devil in Iron"
  • "The People of the Black Circle"
  • "A Witch Shall Be Born"
  • "Jewels of Gwahlur"
  • Afterword, by Karl Edward Wagner
  • Red Nails
  • Foreword, by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "Beyond the Black River"
  • "Shadows in Zamboula"
  • "Red Nails"
  • "The Hyborian Age" (essay)
  • Afterword, by Karl Edward Wagner
  • References

    The Essential Conan Wikipedia


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