Conan of Cimmeria

Lancer, 1969, Sphere, 1974 & 1987; Prestige, 1977; Ace, 1981. Cover by Frank Frazetta. Reprinted numerous times by several publishers between 1967 and 1993. All editions have the Frazetta cover with varying graphics and borders. Out of print.

“The Snout in the Dark” completed by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. Includes a version of the non-Conan story “The Trail of the Bloodstained God,” rewritten by de Camp to include Conan. Also includes three stories by de Camp and Carter, “The Curse of the Monolith,” “The Lair of the Ice Worm,” and “The Castle of Terror.”

Stories

The Frost-Giant’s Daughter

The first version of this story was rewritten by Howard as a non-Conan story titled “The Frost-King’s Daughter” and originally published as “Gods of the North” in Fantasy Fan Volume 1 #7, March 1934.

Howard’s original typescript was rewritten by L. Sprague De Camp and first published in The Coming of Conan (Gnome Press, 1953).

Howard’s original version was first published in Rogues in the House, Donald M. Grant, 1976.

 

Queen of the Black Coast

Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1934.

Miscellanea