The Coming of Conan

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The Coming of Conan by Robert E. Howard, Gnome Press, 1953

The Coming of Conan is a collection of eight fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery heroes Kull and Conan the Barbarian, together with the first part of his pseudo-history of the "Hyborian Age" in which the Conan tales were set. It was 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 "Kull" and "Conan" collections.

Contents:

"The Hyborian Age, Part 1"
"The Shadow Kingdom " (Kull)
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" (Kull)
"The King and the Oak" (Kull)
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"The God in the Bowl"
"Rogues in the House"
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter"
"Queen of the Black Coast"

Chronologically, the short stories collected as The Coming of Conan are the earliest in Gnome's Conan series; the stories collected as Conan the Barbarian follow.