Robert E. Howards Conan Stories Before you begin reading the Conan stories by Robert E. Howard you should know a little background about the world they are set in. I suggest reading his Hyborian Age first. After you are caught up on the background, please enjoy the rest of these stories. The stories are listed in the order in which they were published. This does not reflect upon the chronological order of the stories themselves. It was Howard's belief that a storyteller would never tell his stories in order from beginning to end, but in pieces as they came to him. "In writing these yarns I've always felt less as creating them than as if I were simply chronicling his adventures as he [Conan] told them to me. That's why they skip about so much, without following a regular order. The average adventurer, telling tales of a wild life at random, seldom follows any ordered plan, but narrates episodes widely separated by space and years, as they occur to him." -Howard Hyborian Age - lore about the world of the stories of Conan Hyboria Map - supplement to the lore and hopefully a close map of the world in which the game will be set. Stories: The Phoenix on the Sword (1932) The Scarlet Citadel (1933) The Tower of the Elephant (1933) Black Colossus (1933) The Slithering Shadow (1933) The Pool of the Black One (1933) The Gods of the North (1934) The Queen of the Black Coast (1934) Rogues in the House (1934) Shadows in the Moonlight (1934) The Devil in Iron (1934) People of the Black Circle (1934) A Witch Shall be Born (1934) The Jewels of Gwahlur (1935) Beyond the Black River (1935) Shadows in Zamboula (1935) The Hour of the Dragon (1936) Red Nails (1936) Missing Stories: The God in the Bowl The Vale of Lost Women The Black Stranger - The Treasure of Tranicos Unfinished Stories: The Snout in the Dark, fragment Drums of Tombalku, fragment The Hall of the Dead, synopsis only The Hand of Nergal, fragment In many books, depending on version, these stories can have similar but different names. For instance the story above titled "Gods of the North" is in another book called "The Frost-Giant's Daughter". Though the names may be changed, the integrity of the stories should remain the same. I have also listed stories missing from my archive as well as stories that Howard never got around to finishing. Soon I hope to add these to the collection here for all to read. Please don't mind the spelling errors I'm in the process of fixing them, but it's a hard, time consuming job. Enjoy the stories!