Conan of Cimmeria

Book Details

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Author(s):

Lin Carter ; L Sprague de Camp ; Robert E Howard

First Pub:

1969

Genre(s):

Adventure; Anthology; Fantasy; Swords and Sorcery

First Read:

2019

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 9

Introduction

1 - The Curse of the Monolith

2 - The Bloodstained God

3 - The Frost Giant's Daughter

4 - The Lair of the Ice Worm

5 - Queen of the Black Coast

6 - The Vale of the Lost Women

7 - The Castle of Terror

8 - The Snout in the Dark

Internal ID:

2295

Series:

<- Conan - Conan the Freebooter ->

Conan*

#2 of 12

Conan*

A series of books about Conan the Cimmerian written by Robert E Howard, L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. This is the core series of books which are all from or based on stories or notes by Robert E Howard.

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1) Conan
2) Conan of Cimmeria
3) Conan the Freebooter
4) Conan the Wanderer
5) Conan the Adventurer
6) Conan the Buccaneer
7) Conan the Warrior
8) Conan the Usurper
9) Conan the Conqueror
10) Conan the Avenger
11) Conan of Aquilonia
12) Conan of the Isles

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

The sheer cliffs of dark stone cloaed about Conan the Cimmerian like the sides of a trap.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Conan grinned silently in the darkness and urged the horse to a trot.

Comments:

No comments on file

Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 30-Jul-2019

Last Updated: 07-Feb-2020

Publications

01-Mar-1970

Lancer Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Mar-1970

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$0.95

Pages*:

189

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Internal ID:

2130

Publisher:

Lancer Books

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Frank Frazetta - Cover Artist

CONAN IN HIS PRIME...
IN HIS MOST
SAVAGE EPIC ADVENTURES...
Then the moon rose, a splash of blood, ebony-barred, and the jungle awoke in horrific bedlam to greet it. Roars and howls and ye;;s set the black warriors to trembling; but all this noise, Conan noted, came from farther back in the jungle, as if the beasts no less than men shunned the black waters of Zarkheba... The cold light struck icy fire from the jewels in Belit's clustered black locks as she strtched her lithe figure on the deck.

"We glide into the realm of horror and death," Belit said. "Are you afraid... I was never afraid. I have looked into the naked fangs of Death too often. Conan, do you fear the gods?"

"I would not tread on their shadow," answered the barbarian...

This volume contains QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST - the fabulous Conan's harrowing, demonic adventre set in one of the strangest of Robert E. Howard's fantasy worlds - and seven other great Conan stories, with a new, important introduction by L. Sprague De Camp.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

2nd printing based on the number line.

All Covers for this edition of the series

Conan of Cimmeria

01-May-1979
Ace
Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-May-1979

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$1.95

Pages*:

189

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database World Cat amazon.com

Internal ID:

1739

Publisher:

Ace

ISBN:

0-441-11672-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-441-11672-0

Printing:

2

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Frank Frazetta - Cover Artist

CONAN
OF CIMMERIA

Conan in his
most savage adventures!

"When he twisted his bullneck to look upward, the blood froze in Conan's veins. The mist that had obscured the top of the pylon was gone. The rising half moon shone on and through an amorphous thing, which squatted obsenely on the summit of the column. It was like a huge lump of quivering semi-translucent jelly - and it lived. Throbbing, bloated life pulsed within it. The moonlight glistened wetly upon is as it beat like a huge living heart. As Conan watched in horror, the thing sent a trickle of jelly down the shaft toward his constrained body...."

Eight harrowing, demonic adventures in the life of Conan including:
QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST and THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

2nd printing based on the number line.

All Covers for this edition of the series

Conan of Cimmeria

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Author(s)

Lin Carter
Birth: 09 Jun 1930 St. Petersburg, Florida, US
Death: 07 Feb 1988 Montclair, New Jersey, US

Notes:

Lin Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida. He later returned there after serving in the US Army in the Korean Conflict where he received a Purple Heart. He moved to New York City and attended Columbia University in 1953 and 1954. He worked as a copywriter for law firms, ad agencies, and book publishers. In 1969 he became a full-time writer, editor and anthologist of fantasy & science fiction until his death in February 7, 1988.

Fantasy was Carter's great favorite genre and the most of his writings were about "Swords and Sorcery". He began writing stories while in high school with L Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien being his major influences.

Lin became an editor at Ballantine Books where he reprinted many of his earlier works. Dell and DAW also published a lot of Lin Carter's stories.

L Sprague de Camp
Birth: 27 Nov 1907 New York City, New York, USA
Death: 06 Nov 2000 Plano, Texas, USA

Robert E Howard
Birth: 22 Jan 1906 Peaster, Texas, USA
Death: 11 Jun 1936

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