Conan (books)

The character has proven durably popular, resulting in Conan stories being produced after Howard's death by such later writers as Poul Anderson, Leonard Carpenter, Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Roland J.

In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard.

The last published volume of the Gnome edition was the first Conan story by an author other than Howard, namely Björn Nyberg, and was revised by de Camp.

Wagner's introductions are openly dismissive of the editorial revisions done by de Camp and Carter on the Lancer/Ace editions.

The Offutt stories, in combination with his Conan: The Sword of Skelos from the Bantam series, form a linked trilogy.

The Tor editions were not published in chronological order, but skipped around to present random episodes from various points in Conan's career.

Tor's listings in various volumes of books published in the series to date were in neither chronological nor publication order, but alphabetical by title.

In the wake of popularity of Conan books translations in early 90s some of the czech and slovak fantasy writers such as Vlado Ríša (using the pen name Richard D. Evans), Jan Šimůnek (Albert S. Pergill) or Juraj Červenák (Thorleif Larssen) also created their very own Conan adventures.

In the early 1990s the Russian publishers Troll and North-West (Severo-Zapad) hired local authors to write additional adventures of the Cimmerian.

[4][5] The authors took appropriately sounding pen names like Michael Manson, Douglas Brian, Duncan McGregor, and Paul Winlow (Nick Perumov), the titles, numbering at least 46 volumes, as of 2012 still unavailable to the rest of the world, include new adventures like Blue Poppies, Mithra's Gift, The Heart of Ahriman, Ghost of the Past, A Tiger at the Gates of Shadizar, and others.

The two parts were put together in 2006 to form one stand alone Centenary Edition to celebrate the 100 years since the birth of Howard.