![]() ![]() Both of the original Howard stories were suppressed after de Camp’s rewrites and would not see print until they were collected in the small-press hardcover The Road of Azrael (Donald M. “The Road of the Kings” received the same treatment, being transferred to the Hyborian Age from the Ottoman Empire in AD 1595. Sprague de Camp rewrote the then unpublished Howard story “Hawks over Egypt” as “Hawks over Shem”, changing the setting from Cairo in AD 1021 and adding the fantastic elements to turn it into a Conan tale. For the purist, the Howard-only stories in Conan the Freebooter are “Black Colossus” (1933), “Shadows in the Moonlight” (AKA “Iron Shadows in the Moon”, 1934), and “A Witch Shall be Born” (1934). When Lancer went out of business in 1973, Ace Books picked up and completed the series, keeping it in print until the mid 1990s.Īs with the other Lancer/Ace Conan books, series editor de Camp filled in gaps in Conan’s timeline by expanding Howard’s unpublished notes and fragments, re-writing non-Conan stories, and writing entirely new stories. Conan the Freebooter was the eighth volume published, although it is third in the internal chronology–later printings of the series numbered the books in chronological order. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sprague de Camp, was part of the first comprehensive paperback edition of the Conan saga. (Please also see the Episode 2 and Episode 17 show notes for additional details about the Lancer/Ace Conan books.)Ĭonan the Freebooter (Lancer Books, 1968) by Robert E. ![]()
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