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          Robert E. Howard's Thuria, Hyboria, and Europe

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1].  Quick Reference

     These are the Sword and Sorcery worlds of King Kull,
     Conan the Barbarian, and Cormac Mac Art, Robert E.
     Howard's  greatest and best-known characters.  He
     loosely connected the worlds into a single pseudo-
     history, but they are so far removed from one another
     that many fans view them as distinct worlds.  Primary
     sources include KULL: THE FABULOUS WARRIOR KING,
     CONAN THE WARRIOR, THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON, and
     TIGERS OF THE SEA.
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2].  Printed Sources Bibliography

KULL: THE FABULOUS WARRIOR KING, Bantam Books, 1978, ISBN
0-553-12019.

     This is a relatively late collection of the Kull
     stories, which were written from 1929 through 1936.
     Some of the stories were published years after his
     death, because a collection of manuscripts was found
     in 1951 and another one discovered many years later.
     This collection includes some previously unpublished
     stories but also excludes two: "Kings of the Night"
     and "The Curse of the Golden Skull".  Andrew J.
     Offutt wrote the introduction.

     The cover is a fully extendable, oversized wrap-around
     full color painting by Lou Feck.  Until January, 1979
     it was possible to get poster-sized copies from Bantam
     for only $10.00.  The picture shows Kull standing on
     an eyot in a misty lake or river, defending two
     beautiful women from a dinosaur-like creature.
     Pteradactyl-like creatures are flying toward Kull from
     the left side of the painting.  A ruinous house or
     castle stands in the backgound, with vultures perched
     on the battlements.


Howard wrote 21 stories about Conan.

Gnome Press published all but one of the stories in a
hardback sseries in the early 1950s.  According to Karl
Edward Wagner's introduction to THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON
(see below), the "stories were subjected to editorial
emendations, and a number of revisions and pastiches
marred the collection."

Lancer Books (in the UK, Sphere Books) published the
Conan stories in paperback.  Of this series Wagner
writes: "again with editorial tampering...and Howard's
own Conan tales were buried beneath an overburden of
'posthumous collaborations,' revisions, and outright
pastiches."  David Gentzel tells me that Lancer went
bankrupt before publishing the last volume, CONAN OF
AQUILONIA, and that some of the Sphere imprints were
imported by US bookstores.

Ace Books reprinted the collection in the mid 1960s
with L. Sprague de Camp as the editor, but de Camp
apparently edited the stories quite a bit, too.  And
some of the volumes were either written by non-howard
authors or contained posthumous collaborations.  I
only have CONAN THE WARRIOR from this series.

In the 1970s Karl Edward Wagner published a virtually
unedited collection of some of the 21 Conan stories
for Berkley.  I only have THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON from
this series.  I'm told that only two other volumes
were ever published.

The series as listed in the Ace book is given below,
followed by the names of all the authentic Conan stories.

The Ace series:
---------------
[authentic Howard works denoted by asterisks (*)]

*CONAN, Robert E. Howard.

*CONAN OF CIMMERIA, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp,
& Lin Carter.  I don't know to what extent Howard's work
is included in this volume, or how heavily edited or revised.

CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter.

CONAN THE WANDERER, L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter.

*CONAN THE ADVENTURER, Robert E. Howard.

CONAN THE BUCCANEER, L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter.

*CONAN THE WARRIOR, Robert E. Howard, 1967, ISBN
0-441-11616-7.
     Contains "Red Nails", "Jewels Of Gwahlur", "Beyond
     The Black River".  Frazetta cover.  Some illustrations.

CONAN THE USURPER, L. Sprague de Camp.

*CONAN THE CONQUEROR,Robert E. Howard.
     This is "The Hour of The Dragon", somewhat edited
     by L. Sprague deCamp.  This is the only Conan novel
     Howard ever wrote and was the last Conan story that
     was published in Howard's lifetime.

*CONAN THE AVENGER, Robert E. Howard.

CONAN OF AQUILONIA.

CONAN OF THE ISLES,L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter.

The following information was provided by Oscar Schlaf:
  Below are the stories in the ACE printings of
  Conan that were originally other stories de Camp
  re-wrote & also half finished stories.

  -----------------------------------------------
  "The Hall of The Dead" written by de Camp based on a
  rough outline found in 1966 among Howard's papers.

  "The Hand of Negral" - Howard & Carter.

  "The Bloodstained God" de Camp rewrite of the Howard
  story "The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" set in
  1930s Afghanistan.

  "The Snout in The Dark" Howard Half-finished rough
  draft & outline finished by de Camp & Carter.

  "Hawks Over Shem" de Camp rewrite of the Howard story
  "Hawks Over Egypt" set in 11th cen. Egypt

  "The Road of Eagles" de Camp rewrite of the Howard
  story of the same name set in 16th cen. Turkish Empire.

  "The Flame Knife" de Camp rewrite of the Howard story
  "Three-Bladed Doom" set in 1930s Afghanistan.

  "Drums of Tombalku" Howard Half-finished story &
  outline found in 1965, finished by de Camp.

  "The Treasure of Tranicos" de Camp rewrite of the
  Howard story "The Black Stranger" set in 17th cen.
  Carribbean.

  "Wolves Beyond the Border" Howard half-finshed final
  draft & outline found in 1965 & finsihed by de Camp.

  "Conan of The Isles" de Camp & Carter story inspired
  by a mention of the story idea in a Howard letter to
  a friend.
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The Berkley Series:
-------------------

CONAN: THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON, ed. By Karl Edward Wagner,
Berkeley Medallion, 1977, ISBN 0-425-0360-8-1.
     This is the first volume in a second series that
     reprinted the stories.  THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON is
     the only Conan novel Howard ever wrote.  It is
     considered to be a rewrite of several previous
     stories.  This is the first volume of the Berkeley
     imprint of the CONAN series.  Contains maps and
     illustrations, including a full-color foldout poster.

     Wagner used photocopies of the original "Weird Tales"
     imprints to prepare the manuscript for this edition
     and he did not repeat the edits of deCamp and others.

>From Iron Czar :
Here are the other two, which I own in hardcover from the
Science Fiction Book Club (which, sadly, no longer prints
them.)

THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE, 1977, Berkley.
     "The Devil in Iron"
     "The People of the Black Circle"
     "A Witch Shall be Born"
     "Jewels of Gwahlur"
     NOTE: The original book had a dust cover by Ken
     Kelly.  Karl Wagner edited the book.
     Amazon.com lists the ISBN as 0399121471 and
     says this version was published in December, 1978.

RED NAILS, 1977, Berkley.
     "Beyond the Black River"
     "Shadows in Zamboula"
     "Red Nails"
     Also contains the complete text of the essay, "The
     Hyborian Age"


The Stories:
------------

"The Phoenix on the Sword", Weird Tales, December 1932
"The Scarlet Citadel", Weird Tales, January 1933.
"The Tower of the Elephant", Weird Tales, March 1933.
"Black Colossus", Weird Tales, June 1933.
"The Slithering Shadow", Weird Tales, September 1933.
"The Pool of the Black One", Weird Tales, October 1933.
"Rogues in the House", Weird Tales, January 1934.
"Shadows in the Moonlight", Weird Tales, April 1934.
"Queen of the Black Coast", Weird Tales, May 1934.
"The Devil In Iron", Weird Tales, August 1934.
"The People of the Black Circle", Weird Tales, September
through November 1934.
"A Witch Shall Be Born", Weird Tales, December 1934.
"Jewels of Gwahlur", Weird Tales, December 1934.
"Beyond the Black River", Weird Tales, May through June
1935.
"Shadows in Zamboula", Weird Tales, November 1935.
"The Hour of the Dragon", Weird Tales, December 1935
through April 1936.
"Red Nails", Weird Tales, July through October 1936.
"The God in the Bowl", Space Science Ficton, September
1952.
"The Black Stranger", Fantasy Magazine, February through
March 1953.
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" Fantasy Fiction, August 1953.
"The Vale of Lost Women", Magazine of Horror, Spring 1967.

These last four stories were rejected by Weird Tales and
were discovered after his death.


Howard wrote only four stories about Cormac Mac Art.  These
were collected into a single volume, TIGERS OF THE SEA, by
Richard L. Tierney.  Like Conan, Cormac inspired some
sequels.  Those are not included in this bibliography.

TIGERS OF THE SEA, edited by Richard L. Tierney, illustrated
by Tim Kirk, Zebra Science Fantasy, 1974, ISBN 0-89083-119-X.
     This is the definitive volume of Cormac Mac Art stories.
     They are "Tigers of the Sea", "Swords of the Northern
     Sea", "The Night of the Wolf", and "The Temple of
     Abomination". Cormac's stories are set in historical
     times.  He is a contemporary of the Anglo-Saxons at the
     beginning of the Viking Age.  Originally published in
     hardcover by Donald M. Grant.

>From Edward Waterman:
     Tip: You will probably be able to find the Ace books in
     one of the "Bargain stores". Also there have been 2
     issues/editions of the Ace Conan books. One issue the
     front covers are white, with a Frazetta or Vallejo pic
     framed in a box, and the other issue's front covers
     are completely filled by the Frazetta or Vallejo pic
     (they look like black covers too).
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3].  Visual Sources Bibliography

Rafael Pena supplied me with the following information about
R.E.H.-based comic books:

ON CONAN:

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (comic form) 275 issues from 10/70 to 7/95
KING CONAN/CONAN THE KING (comic) 55 issues from 3/80 to 12/86
CONAN THE ADVENTURER (comic form) 14 issues from 6/94 to 7/95
CONAN (comic form) 11 issues from 8/95 TO 6/96
SAVAGE TALES (B&W mag) 12 issues from 5/71 to SUM.'75
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (B&W mag) 235 issues from 8/74 to 7/95
CONAN THE SAVAGE (B&W mag) 10 issues from 8/95 to 7/96

Laurent Olehmann  added the following:
+ 12 CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUALS from 1973 to 1987
+ Adaptations of the two movies


ON KULL:

KULL AND THE BARBARIANS (B&W MAG) 3 issues from  5/75 TO 9/75
KULL THE CONQUEROR  (comic form) 3 series from 6/71 to 6/85

ON RED SONJA:

RED SONJA (comic form) 3 series from 1/77 to mid '86

ON SOLOMAN KANE:

SOLOMAN KANE (comic form) 6 issues from 9/85 to 3/86

ON BRAN MAK MORN:

R.E.H.'S CORMAC MAC ART (comic form) published as "Kings of the
Night" (2 issues LS in 1990) (details from Laurent)

Except for the Cormac Mac Art comic, all these were published by
Marvel Comics.  Dark Horse published Cormac Mac Art.

Rafael adds:
     "There are at least 20 other titles that feature or have
     cameos of these characters, but I figured you just want the
     list as concise as possible."

The Marvel Red Sonja was introduced in the Conan series.
Howard's Red Sonja was introduced in a story caleed "The
Shadow of the Vulture" (published in the Jan. 2934 issue
of "Magic Carpet Magazine").  This Sonja was a Russian
woman who fought the Turks in 16th century Europe.
See the "Related Materials Bibliography" for a listing
of Red Sonja books based on the Marvel character.

>From David Gentzel:
     There was the black & white Marvel magazine "The Savage
     Sword of Conan", which was preceeded by several Conan
     stories in "Savage Tales".  Marvel also did color and
     black & white Kull comics.  I even think they did a
     Conan/Spider-Man team-up
(*shudder*)...

>From Mike Searson:

    Conan never teamed up with Spider-man. Marvel Comics used to
    publish a Comic titled "What if....?" In which a supreme
    intelligent being on the moon watched over the Earth and
    could change reality. They did stories such as: "What if the
    Hulk retained Bruce Banner's Intellect?", "What if Electra
    lived?" etc...in this series they did 2 Conan stories...one
    was "What if Conan the Barbarian fought Thor the god of
    thunder?"  Which was a lame story in which Thor gets lost
    in Hyboria, loses his memory, thinks he's an Aesir and
    fights Conan, yet the two part as friends.

    The second one they did was "What if Conan the Barbarian were
    trapped in the modern era?" This was very entertaining...a
    wizard knocks Conan through a time/space continuum and he
    materializes in NYC wearing only a loincloth and carrying
    his sword.  He's shot and arrested by the cops, since he
    speaks no modern language they think he's mentally ill, he
    escapes, he robs a dagger from a pawnshop, learns basic
    English, ends up becoming a pimp and enforcer for a Mobster
    until he starts his own gang in Harlem(remniscient of his days
    as "Amra"). Some of the sight gags you can only get from a
    comic book make it worthy to look at(e.g. he's hungry, hears
    a bum ask for some change, he memorizes the phrase, screams
    "Pard me bub cannn you lenn me a quarrrrrr?" at a Wall Street
    type who happens by...the man thinks he's being robbed and
    throws his wallet at him. Conan takes the "Silver Coinage"
    and leaves the "strange green paper wrappings" in the alley as
    he saunters over to a "Working girl")

>From Laurent:
     Spidey/Red Sonja: Marvel Team Up #79
     Spidey/King Kull: Marvel Team-Up #112

Dino de Laurentis produced three movies which were based on
the CONAN character: "Conan the Barbarian", "Conan the
Destroyer", and "Red Sonja".  Conan does not appear in
"Red Sonja" but Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Conan
in the first two movies, plays Kalidor, High Lord of Hyrkania,
the warrior who helps Brigette Nielsen's Sonja.  Originally,
this WAS supposed to be Conan, but it's my understanding
there was a problem with licensing the character.

There was some advance publicity for the first Conan movie
that included storyboard drawings.  I remember seeing one
drawing of a young boy (Conan) standing in a hut.  These
drawings, if they still exist, are probably quite valuable.
I'm not sure of what magazine I saw them in.

>From Laurent:
     The storyboard for the opening sequence was published
     in a French Metal Hurlant Conan Special.

Ironically, both the Conan movies drew upon Kull for material:
When the Wizard played by Mako greets Conan, his words, "If I
smite you in the face, I'll summon a demon greater than all
those in hell!" were originally spoken by Tuzun Thune, and
the mirrors in "Conan the Destroyer" are highly reminiscent
of "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune".  And Kull fought snake
priests in Valusia, as well.

There is a "Kull the Conqueror" movie starring Kevin Sorbo
(star of the syndicated television show, HERCULES: THE
LEGENDARY JOURNEYS).  He was on location in Austria in
late 1996 filming that story.  The movie was produced
by Raffaela de Laurentis, daughter of Dino de Laurentis.
Plans for two more Kull movies have been announced.

A biographical movie about Howard has been released.  It's
called "The Whole Wide World".

A Conan animated series was produced in the 1980s.

A CONAN THE BARBARIAN live action television series premiered
in syndication September, 1997.  Stars Ralf Moeller.
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4].  Related Materials Bibliography

There is actually a fair amount of literature pertaining to
Howard's work.  He is considered to be one of the most
influential pulp fiction writers of the early Twentieth
Century.  Howard killed himself when he was only 30 years
old and so actually proved to be quite prolific in the few
years he engaged in writing fiction.

The KING KULL, HOUR OF THE DRAGON, and TIGERS OF THE SEA
books all contain introductions by Howard scholars (the
editors).

Another interesting book, if you can find it, is THE DARK
MAN AND OTHERS.  It was published by Lancer Books, ISBN
447-75265-095, in 1963 and has been reprinted a number
of times.  It was edited by August Derleth and he provided
a short introduction as well.  Derleth's introduction
mentions SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, but I have not found a
copy of this book.  David Gentzel tells me that DARK
MAN was originally published in hardback by Arkham
House, which imprint was founded by Augest Derleth.
Derleth also published the rare SKULL-FACE.

The stories in these books are not Kull, Conan, and
Cormac stories (well -- not in THE DARK MAN AND OTHERS),
but there are some other characters who are associated
with the world: Bran Mak Mork and Conan the Reiver, to
name two.  Perhaps all of Howard's fantasy characters
shared the same world in some way.

Sphere Books (in the UK) published MARCHERS OF VALHALLA,
a collection of Howard stories, in 1977.  The ISBN is
0-7221-4728-7.

Karl Edward Wagner mentions these sources in his
Acknowledgements for THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON:

THE LAST CELT, edited by Glenn Lord (Administrator for
Howard's estate), 1976.

THE HOWARD COLLECTOR, edited by Glenn Lord, 18 issues.
 Wagner expected (in 1977) a hardcover collection of
these issues to be published.

RUNES OF AHRH EIH ECHE, edited by Jonathon Bacon, 1976.
These are Howard's letters.

THE ANNOTATED GUIDE TO ROBERT E. HOWARD'S SWORD AND
SORCERY, edited by Robert Weinberg, 1976.


Wagner also published the addresses of two amateur
journals which he felt had "become permanent fixtures
in the field".  It's unlikely that, after 20 years,
these addresses are still valid, but perhaps it's
possible to find these journals in collections
or at conventions and trade shows:

WHISPERS, Box 904, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514.
From Edward P. Berglund:
  WHISPERS was edited and published by Stuart David
  Schiff, who now lives in New England.  I don't
  think Schiff put out an issue after he started
  doing the WHISPERS anthologies for Doubleday
  (five total, I believe), but from W. Paul Ganley
  there is a WEIRDBOOK/WHISPERS (or the other way
  around) special either out now or due out soon.

AMRA, Box 8243, Philadelphia, PA, 19101.
From Edward P. Berglund:
  AMRA was edited and published by George Scithers,
  who was the publisher of the latest version of
  WEIRD TALES, which is now called WORLD OF FANTASY
  & HORROR.  I doubt if he has the time to put out
  AMRA anymore. I don't think there has been an
  issue since WEIRD TALES was revived. The last
  issue I saw was in the early 80's.

RED SONJA
---------
This interesting character has inspired a series of
books by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney.  I
don't have them and got this information from Sonja
M. Cannon  :

Red Sonja:  The Ring of Ikribu (copyright 1981)
Red Sonja:  Demon Night (copyright 1982)
Red Sonja:  When Hell Laughs (1982)
Red Sonja:  Endithor's Daughter (1982)
Red Sonja:  Against the Prince of Hell (1983)
Red Sonja:  Star of Doom (1983)

The original Red Sonya story was republished by Karl
Edward Wagner in ECHOES OF VALOR III.


other CORMAC MAC ART stories
----------------------------
I don't endorse these books but other Howard fans like
them. Andrew J. Offutt wrote several books about the
Gaelic warrior which are intended to pick up where
TIGERS OF THE SEA left off.  Except for the first two
books, I'm uncertain of the order of publication for
these.  Thanks to Edward Waterman 
for supplying the list:

SWORD OF THE GAEL
THE UNDYING WIZARD
THE MISTS OF DOOM
THE TOWER OF DEATH
WHEN DEATH BIRDS FLY
THE SIGN OF THE MOONBOW

SWORD, a Spanish REH Fanzine
Sword is dedicated to the worlds and characters created by the
writer Robert E. Howard and very especially, to the Conan the
Barbarian figure.  See Web sites below.
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5].  Online References

     A)   News Groups

          alt.fantasy.conan.  Traffic in the group is
          pretty steady but light.

          Also, the works of Howard can be discussed in
          rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fantasy, alt.books,
          rec.arts.books, alt.pulp, and the world can be
          discussed in alt.fan.created-worlds.

          It may also be appropriate to discuss the
          Marvel comics in rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe.

     B)   Mailing/Discussion Lists

          REH-fans
          This list was created for discussions of all
          things relating to Robert E. Howard and his
          works.

          To subscribe to the list, send email to:

              REH-fans-requ...@xenite.org

          Put the word "subscribe" (no quotes) as the
          subject line and as the only content of the
          message.

          You unsubscribe the same way.

          To post to the list you send email to:

              REH-f...@xenite.org

          NOTE: DO NOT SEND SUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THIS
          ADDRESS.  PLEASE USE THE REQUEST ADDRESS GIVEN
          ABOVE.

          You can also check out:
          http://www.robjob.com/rehupa/mlist.html

     C)   Web sites

          The Official Conan Web Site
          http://www.conan.com/

          Donald M. Grant is still in business and
          publishing Howard material.  Their web
          site is:
          http://www.bluefin.net/~dmgrant/index.html

          Baen Books has also been publishing Howard
          material, according to Mr. Gentzel:
          "'complete' volumes of Kull, Solomon Kane,
          Bran mak Morn, and Cormac mac Art, as well
          as some random short story collections."
          http://www.baen.com/

          Edward Waterman has a web site listing used
          book stores where you can find Howard's works:
          http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6570/used.html

          He also maintains a complete list of "all the
          publishers of REH related books currently in
          print as well!"

          The main URL is
          http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6570/literary.html.

          Web page for SWORD, Spanish fanzine
          http://www.teleline.es/personal/barbaro/
          (Note: There is an English-language version)

          Joe and Mona's Web Page
          http://members.home.net/jmarek1

          Sites associated with "King Kull":
          ---------------------------------

          Official site for the movie:
          http://www.kulltheconqueror.com/

          Robert E. Howard: Short Story Bibliography
          http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6477/howard.html

          A Historical Overview of Heroes In Contemporary
          Works Of Fantasy Literature, Part Three: Sword
          & Sorcery by John L. Flynn
          http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/swordsor.html
          I think the title speaks for itself.  Contains
          a bibliography and notes.

          Michael's Kevin Sorbo Review
          http://www.xenite.org/sorbo.htm
          Discusses Kevin Sorbo's portrayal of Kull and
          fannish reaction.  The site also now contains
          a message from Charles Pogue speaking in his
          own defense about the script for "Kull".

          Ms. Moo's Kull Page
          http://msmoo.simplenet.com/sorbo/kull.htm

          Sites dealing with Conan the Barbarian:
          --------------------------------------

          Conan The Barbarian
          http://www.holonet.net/kilroyhome/conan/
          A text-based page that discusses Conan.

          The Conan the Barbarian Web Page
          http://www.eel.ufl.edu/~shadow/conan/conan.html
          Contains a map of the Hyborian world.  Has some
          info and images.  Also contains an extensive
          glossary of names.  Very impressive work.

          The Conan Gallery  (downloadable images)
          http://users.icanect.net/~mikekane/images/pics.htm
          There are some screen captures from the movies here
          but also some Frazetta drawings.  The use of these
          images may be in violation of copyrights.  There is
          also a history of Conan.

          Fantasy World: What Is Best In Life?
          http://www.bus.miami.edu/~gmortaki/fantasy.htm
          This page has one of those annoying flashing .GIFs,
          but it also has some images.  There are also a few
          links here to other Conan sites.

          Robert E. Howard
http://www.catch22.com/~espana/SFAuthors/SFH/Howard,RobertE.html
          Has a few links to other Conan sites.

          The Robert E. Howard Archive
          http://pages.ripco.com:8080/~bbb/howard.html
          Interesting stuff about Howard, including some of
          his letters and chronologies for Conan, Kull, and
          Solomon Kane stories (but not chronologies for
          their "lives").

          The Robert E. Howard United Press Association
          http://www.robjob.com/rehupa/
          This is an amateur press group founded in 1972 for
          discussion of Howard's life and works.

          Grant Brooks' Robert E. Howard Page
          http://www.bluefin.net/~dmgrant/Robert-E.-Howard.html
          Some interesting images and story synopses.

          This web site contains a Hyborian Age section and
          Russel has promised to post this FAQ there:

          http://www.clark.net/pub/papabear/Russ-tp.htm

          Conan WebRing is located at:
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/1133/conanwebring.htm

           Imhotep's Hyborian Homepage (uses frames)
           http://stud.grm.hia.no/~nipni/frames.htm

           Crom's Conan The Barbarian Page
           http://crom.xdns.net/conan

     D)   Online services

          Staale Gismervik's Hyborian Thoughts WWW message
          board is NOW located at:
          http://www.prosalg.no/~savage/conan/wwwboard/

          Conan The Adventurer Discussion Board
          http://www.conan.com/forum/

          NOTE:  There is now a Message Board Directory
          which provides links to individual Web-based
          boards, message board providers, and large
          indexes of boards.  Some of these indexes
          include Science Fiction and Fantasy boards
          and may contain content of interest to people
          who read the WorldFAQs.  The Message Board
          Directory is located at:

          http://www.xenite.org/mb_direct.htm

     E)   IRC

          Conan Chat
          http://members.aol.com/PuNkGoOse/conan.html

     F)   Comprehensive lists of resources

          Iron Czar sent me a pretty nice bibliography.  I
          don't have time to work on it, however, and it's
          much too large to add to this FAQ.  For now, I'm
          posting it in conjunction with this WorldFAQ.

          The web sites listed above will eventually be
          trimmed. I cannot maintain a comprehensive list
          of web sites and will eventually provide here
          information about where to find all the web sites.
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6].  Description

     Thuria was an ancient continent where Kull became King
     of Valusia.  With his ally Brule, King of the Picts,
     Kull of Atlantis cut a swath across the Thurian
     continent, dominating the ancient civilization of
     Valusia and it neighboring realms, Kamelia, Farsun,
     Verulia, and Thule.

     Long after Kull's day Atlantis and Lemuria sank into
     the sea, and Thuria itself suffered great upheavals
     so that it became Hyboria.  The Atlanteans became the
     Cimmerians, cruel barbarians of the northern world
     who dwelt on the fringes of the Hyborian civilization.
     In the distant north east white apes evolved into men
     who giant, blond-haired savages, ancestors of the
     next wave of barbarians.  Into this world comes Conan,
     warrior, adventurer, mercenary, and eventually King
     of Aquilonia, greatest of the Hyborian kingdoms.

     The Hyborians, Picts, and Stygians eventually lose
     their world in new tumults, and modern Europe, Asia,
     and Africa emerge.  The blond-haired savages become
     the Northmen, and the Picts and Atlantean-descended
     Cimmerians survive only in a corner of the world,
     merged into a new people:
     the Gaels (Celts).  From the Gaels of Ireland comes
     Cormac Mac Art.

     This is a world of stoic barbarians, decrepit
     civilizations, and a constant search for wealth,
     glory, and renewel.  Each great king rises from
     obscurity only to pass back into it. Conan knows
     nothing of Kull, and Cormac knows nothing of
     either Conan or Kull.
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7].  Maintainer Information

FAQ owner: Michael Martinez 
Last Updated:  August 15, 1998

Contributions made (knowingly or otherwise) by:
Edward P. Berglund 
Rusty Burke 
Sonja M. Cannon  
Patrick M. Clot 
David Gentzel 
Iron Czar 
Dennis McHaney 
Mark 
William Lange 
Laurent Olehmann 
Rafael Pena  
PuNK GoOse 
Russell W Sanders 
Oscar Schlaf 
Mike Searson 
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