Conan of Cimmeria

Conan of Cimmeria is a 1969 collection of eight fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Italian. It was later gathered together with Conan and Conan the Freebooter into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (1989).

Contents

• "Introduction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The Curse of the Monolith" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
• "The Blood-Stained God" (Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The Frost Giant's Daughter" (Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The Lair of the Ice Worm" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
• "Queen of the Black Coast" (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Vale of Lost Women" (Robert E. Howard)
• "The Castle of Terror" (L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)
• "The Snout in the Dark" (Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter)

Plot summary

In a number of episodes Conan, now in his mid- to late-twenties, is followed from the end of his career as a mercenary soldier for King Yildiz of Turan to his initial adventures in the black kingdoms of Kush. In between he visits his native Cimmeria and the far north then makes his way southward where, in Argos, he gets his first taste of life as a sea rover as the right hand man of the pirate queen Bêlit.

Chronologically, the eight short stories collected as Conan of Cimmeria fall between Conan and Conan the Freebooter.

References

• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 36–37. 

External links

• Conan of Cimmeria Review