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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
one publisher after another. After six months, "King Solomon's Mines" was published, and the book became the year's best seller, with printers struggling to print copies fast enough.
In the process, "King Solomon's Mines" created a new genre known as the "Lost World", which would inspire Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Land That Time Forgot", Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" and H. P. Lovecraft