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At the risk of being branded a heretic, I'd say that book you already have contains almost all of the best stories (the one really Grade A one that's missing is "Beyond the Black River") and unless you want to be a completist there's not much need to read all the rest (most of which are very repetitive and formulaic). But if you do want to read all of them, yeah, those in-print Del Rey collections Geoffrey mentioned are the way to go.

Hmm.. maybe I have what I really need. I think I might just keep cruising the half-price book store to fill out my Conan paerback set. I love those old paperbacks. I think my very first one was a Flash Gordon I picked up at a flea market for like $3 at age 7-8. Anyway, here's what's in the books below:

Hour of Dragon: Hour of the Dragon (Howard, Ed. Wagner)
Airport/Momoa Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword, The People of the Black Circle, The Tower of the Elephant, Queen of the Black Coast, Red Nails, Rogues in the House
Conan: The Thing in the Crypt, The Tower of the Elephant, The Hall of the Dead, The God in the Bowl, Rogues in the House, The Hand of Nergal, The City of Skulls (Howard, Camp, Carter)
Conan the Freebooter: Hawks Over Shem, Black Colossus, Shadows in the Moonlight, The Road of the Eagles, A Witch Shall Be Born (Howard, Camp)
Conan the Adventurer: The People of the Black Circle, The Slithering Shadow, Drums of Tombalku, The Pool of the Black One (Howard, Camp)
Conan the Usurper: The Treasurer of Tranicos, Wolves Beyond the Border, The Phoenix on the Sword, The Scarlet Citadel (Howard with "collaborator" Camp)
Conan the Conquerer: Conan the Conquerer (Howard, Ed. Camp)

Depends on the editor. Anything with LeCamp on is suspicious, as he happily altered the text. The books mentioned above contain the unaltered originals, and did so for the first time when they were published. The Momoa cover might be like that, hard to know for sure.

Just finished The Brave Free Men by Lord Vance, starting Mythago Wood.

Of that Lancer/Ace de Camp-edited series, the holes to fill in are #2 (Conan the Cimmerian) which includes "The Frost Giant's Daughter," #4 (Conan the Buccaneer (?)) which includes "The Devil in Iron," and #7 (Conan the Warrior) which includes "Beyond the Black River." Numbers 6 & 10+ are "new" stories by de Camp & Lin Carter that don't contain any Howard and can/should be disregarded entirely. Also note that Hour of the Dragon and Conan the Conqueror are the same story -- de Camp renamed it to the latter. If you do end up completing and reading this set, I'd advise just skipping past any story that's written by de Camp &/or Carter or written by "Howard & de Camp" (which means the latter either took either an incomplete manuscript and completed it or a non-Conan (and usually non-fantasy) story and "modified" it -- the latter stories are especially odious and disrespectful).

I was less of a purist until I actually read the Del Rey versions. Very lovely books, good art, very respectful of the author (presented in order written, unedited, with incomplete stories put in the appendix).

Ragnorakk wrote:Just finished The Brave Free Men by Lord Vance, starting Mythago Wood.

Mythago Wood rocks.

grodog wrote:

Ragnorakk wrote:Just finished The Brave Free Men by Lord Vance, starting Mythago Wood.

Mythago Wood rocks.

Almost all of Holdstocks Mythago related books are excellent. Sad that he died. I was shocked when I found out.

Recently finished:

Great God Pan - Arthur Machen

Several Conan stories.

Currently working on Princess of Mars - E.R.B.

Philotomy Jurament wrote:Sharpe's Eagle

Have you watched any of the TV series?

DungeonDork wrote:Have you watched any of the TV series?

Yes, I've watched the first three DVDs. (I wish they were available on Netflix streaming instead of DVD-only.) I thought those were good, but the books are even better.

Philotomy Jurament wrote:

DungeonDork wrote:Have you watched any of the TV series?

Yes, I've watched the first three DVDs. (I wish they were available on Netflix streaming instead of DVD-only.) I thought those were good, but the books are even better.

Naturally. They aired on PBS for a while. I didn't see them all but they were definitely watchable.
Beautiful scenery.

I put Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock aside so I could finish Harold Lamb's Wolf of the Steppes; after I finish these two it's on to Mr Lamb's Warrior of the Steppes, the second volume of Khlit the Cossack stories.

If you're looking for fantastic adventure in an exotic setting, Mr Lamb's stories are hard to beat.

Field of Glory rulebook (again)