The Conan Grimoire

L. Sprague de Camp andGeorge H. Scithers,Mirage Press, 1972
Author	L. Sprague de Camp George H. Scithers (editors)
Cover artist	Berni Wrightson
Language	English
Genre	Sword and sorcery,Essays,Poetry
Publisher	Mirage Press
Publication date	1972
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	261 pp

The Conan Grimoire is a 1972 collection of essays, poetry and fiction edited byL. Sprague de Camp andGeorge H. Scithers, published in hardcover byMirage Press. The essays were originally published as articles in Scithers'fanzineAmra. The book is a companion to Mirage’s previous two volumes of material fromAmra,The Conan Reader (1968) andThe Conan Swordbook (1969). Most of the material in the three volumes, together with some additional material, was later reprinted in two de Camp-edited paperback anthologies fromAce Books;The Blade of Conan (1979) andThe Spell of Conan (1980).

The book consists of thirty-seven pieces, mostly essays onfantasy writerRobert E. Howard and his seminalsword and sorcery heroConan the Barbarian, Howard's sources and literary successors, and other fantasy authors such asEdgar Rice Burroughs,E. R. Eddison,Jack Vance,Fritz Leiber andTalbot Mundy. Some original material by Howard, a number of fantasy poems and a few fictional pieces are also included.

• “Swordsmen and Sorcerers at Play” (Lin Carter)
• “Letters to Clark Ashton Smith” (Robert E. Howard)
• “Balthus of Cross Plains” (George H. Scithers)
• “Something About Eve” (Robert E. Howard)
• “Howard’s Style” (Fritz Leiber)
• “Untitled Fragment” (“The wind from…”) (Robert E. Howard)
• “John Carter and His Electric Barsoom” (Thomas Stratton)
• “The Agent” (Björn Nyberg)
• “When Set Fled” (Fritz Leiber)
• “The Testament of Snefru” (John Boardman)
• “The Lion’s Bridge” (Ray Capella)
• “Eddison’s Zimiamvian Trilogy” (Robert E. Briney)
• “Of Worms and Unicorns” (David Hulan)
• “The Dying Earth” (Robert E. Briney)
• “Fafhrd and Me” (Fritz Leiber)
• “A Man Named John” (John Pocsik)
• “Transposition” (L. Sprague de Camp)
• “The Gray Mouser 1” (Fritz Leiber)
• “The Gray Mouser 2” (Fritz Leiber)
• “I Remember Conan” (Grace A. Warren)
• “Stamford Bridge” (Poul Anderson)
• “The Free-Speaking Verses” (Poul Anderson)
• “The Loss of a Son” (Poul Anderson)
• “Woe is Me” (Avram Davidson)
• “Carter’s Little Whiskey Stills” (John Boardman)
• “The Thong of Thor” (John Boardman)
• “Ghost Ships” (L. Sprague de Camp)
• “Tiger in the Rain” (L. Sprague de Camp)
• “What Really Happened” (C. C. Hebron)
• “One Man’s BEM” (R. Bretnor)
• “Kush” (L. Sprague de Camp)
• “A Furthest Note on the Red Planet” (E. Hoffmann Price)
• “Arming the Incomplete Enchanter” (Jerry E. Pournelle)
• “Richard the Lion-Hearted is Alive and Well in California” (Poul Anderson)
• “Mundy’s Vendhya” (L. Sprague de Camp)
• “Young Man Mulligan”, with Key (various)
• “Drinking Songs from ‘Silverlock’” (John Myers Myers)

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998).The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 417.
• Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983).De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 108.

• A Brief Comparison of The Conan Reader, The Conan Swordbook, and The Conan Grimoire with The Blade of Conan and The Spell of Conan

• 1972 anthologies
• Books by L. Sprague de Camp
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• Conan the Barbarian books
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