''Conan the Adventurer'' is a 1966 collection of four
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures.
The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...
short stories by American writers
Robert E. Howard and
L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's
sword and sorcery hero
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero created by American author Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) and who debuted in 1932 and went on to appear in a series of fantasy stories published in ''We ...
. Most of 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 German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian,
Swedish and
Dutch. It was later gathered together with ''
Conan the Wanderer'' and ''
Conan the Buccaneer'' into the omnibus collection ''
The Conan Chronicles 2'' (1990).
Contents
*"Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
*"
The People of the Black Circle" (Robert E. Howard)
*"
The Slithering Shadow" (Robert E. Howard)
*"
Drums of Tombalku" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
*"
The Pool of the Black One" (Robert E. Howard)
Plot summary
In these stories from Conan's early thirties, the Cimmerian starts as a leader of an Afghuli tribe in Vendhya, journeys into the Black Kingdoms south of Stygia, and ends up as a Zingaran buccaneer.
Chronologically, the four short stories collected as ''Conan the Adventurer'' fall between ''
Conan the Wanderer'' and ''
Conan the Buccaneer''.
References
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1966 short story collections
Fantasy short story collections
Fantasy short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan the Barbarian books
Lancer Books books
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