This article describes and discusses notable book editions of the Conan stories. In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard. Most post-Howard Conan stories, however, are completely original works. Some of these writers finished incomplete Conan manuscripts by Howard, or rewrote Howard stories which originally featured different characters. Offutt, Steve Perry, John Maddox Roberts, Harry Turtledove, and Karl Edward Wagner. 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. Written by numerous authors and issued by numerous publishers, they include both novels and short stories, the latter assembled in various combinations over the years by the several publishers. The Conan books are sword and sorcery fantasies featuring the character of Conan the Cimmerian originally created by Robert E. For other uses, see Conan the Barbarian (disambiguation). This article is about the Conan prose books.
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