King Conan [SEP] series
King Conan
King Conan is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1953. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine "Weird Tales". The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Conan" collections.
Chronologically, the five short stories collected as "King Conan" are the fourth in Gnome's Conan
only the Howard Conan stories in their original published form, and included all the Conan stories in the public domain at the time (though their copyright status was not widely known). Wagner's introductions are openly dismissive of the editorial revisions done by de Camp and Carter on the Lancer/Ace editions.
- "The Hour of the Dragon" (Aug. 1977)
- "The People of the Black Circle" (Sep. 1977)
- "Red Nails" (Oct. 1977)
Bantam series, 1978