Conan the Barbarian (collection)

This article is about the 1954 collection. For other uses, see Conan the Barbarian (disambiguation).

Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard, Gnome Press, 1954
Author(s)	Robert E. Howard
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Sword and sorcery Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Gnome Press
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Coming of Conan
Followed by	The Sword of Conan

Conan the Barbarian is a collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1954. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales. This collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other "Conan" collections. A later collection with the same title but different contents was issued in paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine Books in 2011.

Contents:

• "Black Colossus"
• "Shadows in the Moonlight"
• "A Witch Shall be Born"
• "Shadows in Zamboula"
• "The Devil in Iron"

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