''Conan the Adventurer'' is a 1966 collection of four

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short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard and

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, featuring Howard's

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hero

Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including '' Conan the Barbarian'' and '' Conan the Destroyer'') ...

. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine ''

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'' 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,

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and

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. It was later gathered together with ''

Conan the Wanderer ''Conan the Wanderer'' is a 1968 collection of four fantasy literature, fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stor ...

'' and ''

Conan the Buccaneer ''Conan the Buccaneer'' is a 1971 fantasy novel by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Lancer Books, and has been rep ...

'' into the omnibus collection ''

The Conan Chronicles 2 ''The Conan Chronicles 2'' is a 1990 omnibus collection of two previous fantasy collections and one fantasy novel by American writers Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barba ...

'' (1990).

*"Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp) *"

The People of the Black Circle "The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in ''Weird Tales'' magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 19 ...

" (Robert E. Howard) *"

The Slithering Shadow "The Slithering Shadow" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in the September 1933 issue of ''Weird Tales'' magaz ...

" (Robert E. Howard) *"

Drums of Tombalku "Drums of Tombalku" is an American fantasy short story, one of the original ones written in the 1930s by Robert E. Howard featuring Conan the Cimmerian. Howard left it as an untitled synopsis which was not published in his lifetime. The tale w ...

" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp) *"

The Pool of the Black One "The Pool of the Black One" is one of the original short story, short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian ...

" (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 ''

'' and ''

''.

References

* 1966 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Fantasy short story collections by L. Sprague de Camp Conan the Barbarian books Lancer Books books {{1960s-fantasy-story-collection-stub

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