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| Author | Robert E. Howard |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Swords & sorcery,fantasy |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1953 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
The Coming of Conan is a collection of eightfantasy short stories by American writerRobert E. Howard, featuring hissword and sorcery heroesKull andConan 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 in the United States byGnome Press in 1953 and byBoardman Books in the United Kingdom in 1954. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazineWeird Tales. The collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split and distributed among other "Kull" and "Conan" collections.
Chronologically, the short stories collected asThe Coming of Conan are the earliest in Gnome's Conan series; the stories collected asConan the Barbarian follow.
New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson praised the stories as "unusual adult fairy tale[s] [with] a verve and dash seldom found in such thud-and-blunder stories."[1]P. Schuyler Miller praised the volume as "some of the best of the fantastic, bloody exploits of Conan the Cimmerian in a world that never was."[2]
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