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.
Source · Open Library
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Contents
- 1The Hyborian Ageshort story
- 2The Tower of the Elephantnovelette
- 3The Hall of the Dead (Synopsis)short story
- 4The God in the Bowlshort story
- 5Rogues in the Housenovelette
- 6The Hand of Nergalshort story
- 7The Frost-Giant's Daughtershort story
- 8Queen of the Black Coastnovelette
- 9The Vale of Lost Womenshort story
- 10The Snout in the Dark (Draft)short story
- 11Black Colossusnovelette
- 12Shadows in the Moonlightnovelette
- 13A Witch Shall Be Bornnovelette
- 14Shadows in Zamboulanovelette
- 15The Devil in Ironnovelette
- 16The People of the Black Circlenovella
- 17The Slithering Shadownovelette
- 18Drums of Tombalku (Draft)short story
- 19The Pool of the Black Onenovelette