Conan the Barbarian is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1955.

[1] The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales.

A later collection with the same title but different contents was issued in paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine Books in 2011.

[2] Chronologically, the five short stories collected as Conan the Barbarian are the second in Gnome's Conan series; the stories collected as The Sword of Conan follow.

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