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| Author | Robert E. Howard |
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| Cover artist | Ken Kelly |
| Language | English |
| Series | Berkley Conan |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Science Fiction Book Club |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 643 pp |
| ISBN | 1-56865-803-6 |
| OCLC | 41031602 |
The Essential Conan is a collection offantasy short stories written byRobert E. Howard featuring hissword and sorcery heroConan the Barbarian. The book was published in 1998 by theScience Fiction Book Club. It collects theeditions of the Conan books, edited byKarl Edward Wagner and published byBerkley Books in 1977. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazinesWeird Tales,The Phantagraph andThe Howard Collector. The Wagner editions were the first to virtually reproduce Howard's original stories without any editorial changes other than typo fixes.