Conan the Usurper [SEP] series
Conan the Usurper
Conan the Usurper is a 1967 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. 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, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch.
Contents.
- "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp
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