The Conan Chronicles: Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (The Conan Chronicles, #1)

The Conan Chronicles: Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The book was published in 2000 by Gollancz as eighth volume of their Fantasy Masterworks series. The book, edited by Stephen Jones, presents the stories in their internal chronological order. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines The Phantagraph, Weird Tales, Super-Science Fiction, Magazine of Horror and Fantasy Fiction. Contents Map of the Hyborian Age "The Hyborian Age" "The Tower of the Elephant" "The Hall of the Dead" (synopsis) "The God in the Bowl" "Rogues in the House" "The Hand of Nergal" (fragment) "The Frost-Giant’s Daughter" "Queen of the Black Coast" "The Vale of Lost Women" "The Snout in the Dark" (draft) "Black Colossus" "Shadows in the Moonlight" "A Witch Shall Be Born" "Shadows in Zamboula" "The Devil in Iron" "The People of the Black Circle" "The Slithering Shadow" "Drums of Tombalku" (draft) "The Pool of the Black One" Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago. Conan the Cimmerian: her rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age The definitive collection of Conan stories, featuring the most distinctive and well known fantasy hero of all time.