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Conan the Warrior

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Conan the Warrior
Cover of first edition
AuthorRobert E. Howard
Cover artistFrank Frazetta
LanguageEnglish
SeriesConan the Barbarian
GenreSword and sorcery
PublisherLancer Books
Publication date
1967
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages222

Conan the Warrior is a 1967 collection of three fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The collection is introduced and edited by L. Sprague de Camp. 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 Japanese, German, French, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Italian.

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Plot

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In these stories from Conan's late thirties, the Cimmerian becomes involved in the civil wars of a lost city, a contest over treasure in the black kingdoms, and the border wars between the kingdom of Aquilonia and the savage Picts in the wilderness to the west.

Chronologically, the three short stories collected as Conan the Warrior fall between Conan the Buccaneer and Conan the Usurper.

Sources

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  • Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 112.
Preceded by Lancer/Ace Conan series
(chronological order)
Succeeded by