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Tales of Conan
1955
First Published
4.16
Average Rating
218
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Collection of stories by Howard and rewritten by de Camp (see below). Includes:

  1. Introduction (Page 9 ~ )
  2. Note (Page 15 ~ )
  3. The Blood-Stained God (Page 17 ~ )
  4. Hawks over Shem (Page 39 ~ )
  5. The Road of the Eagles (Page 83 ~ )
  6. The Flame-Knife (Page 121 ~ ) From the "Ghostly Note" by de Camp: There four stories are based upon unpublished manuscripts by Robert E. Howard, which I obtained from the same source as the three posthumously published Conan stories that have appeared in the Gnome Press' series of Hyborian Age books. (See my introduction to King Conan.) In their original form, the stories in the present book were tales of oriental adventure with medieval and modern settings. Converting them into Conan stories involved changing names, removing anachronisms, and putting in a supernatural element, but the stories are still about four-fifths Howard. The resulting pastaches are meant to be as close as possible to what Howard would have written had he, instead of blowing his silly head off, undertaken to rewrite these stories in this form. His literary habits being what they were, he might very well have done this had he lived. L. Sprague de Camp
Avg Rating
4.16
Number of Ratings
43
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Author

Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Author · 189 books

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror." He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. —Wikipedia Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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