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Conan di Cimmeria ( Conan of Cimmeria ) is a collection of eight stories heroic fantasy Written by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter starring Conan Il Barbaro, a character created by Howard.

It is the second tome of a series of twelve volumes dedicated to the character.

Conan’s character had been created by Robert Howard in 1932 and was the protagonist of several novels and stories published in the magazine Weird Tales Until the death of the writer in 1936. About twenty years after the Gnome Press publishing house, he acquired the rights to reprint the Conan cycle in volume and entrusted the curation of the project to the novelist L. Sprague de Camp, an important author of the magazine Unknown competitor of Weird Tales ; He decided to organize Howard’s texts according to an internal chronology he hypothesized (where Howard had composed them in anachronic order) and added to the five volumes of “canonical” materials two tomes of “apocryphal” texts, composed of his own hand or by the collaborator Björn Nyberg. About ten years later the rights passed from Gnome Press to Lancer Books and the new publisher commissioned De Camp and his collaborator Lin Carter to further expand the series, thus setting up a new edition in twelve volumes.

The second volume Conan of Cimmeria It was published in paperback by Lancer Books in 1969, and was reprinted in 1970, 1972 and 1973 [first] [2] ; After Lancer’s failure between 1976 and 1977, Ace Books took over the rights on the series [first] and the volume was reprinted to the ACE brand in May 1977 and was reprinted with August 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982 (two editions), 1984, 1985, 1990 and 1993. The first British edition was distributed by Sphere Books in 1974, e reprinted in 1976 and 1987 [first] [2] ; Always for the British market he was combined with the first and third volume of dodecalogia, Conan! It is Conan the pirate , Nell’Omnibus The Conan Chronicles (Sphere Books, August 1989). The book was translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch [3] .

The first Italian edition of Conan di Cimmeria It was published by Editrice Nord in 1978 by the Fantacollana, a necklace in which the entire Lancer/Ace series was translated (albeit in an oust order compared to the internal chronology); The collection was re -proposed by the same publisher within the large format omnibus volume The legend of Conan Il Cimmero of the Grandi Works line north in 1989, and then in the homniBus in pocket paperback Conan the Cimmer of the Super Omnibus pocket line in 1993.

The volume includes two “canonical” stories by Howard in the original text; a “canonical” story of Howard heavily interpolated by De Camp; A realistic story by Howard rewritten by De Camp to transform him into an adventure of Conan; An unfinished story of Howard completed by De Camp and Carter as “Postum collaboration”; and three “apocryphay” stories composed of only De Camp and Carter. The first edition is indicated for each text.

  • Introduction by L. Sprague de Camp.
  • “The curse of the monolith” (“The Curso of the Monolith”), unpublished. Written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.
  • “The bloody God” (“The Blood-Stained God”), in the collection Tales of Conan , Gnome Press, 1955. Written by Robert E. Howard starring Kirby O’Donnell and the title of The Curse of the Crimson God and rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp.
  • “The daughter of the ice giant” (“The Frost Giant’s Daughter”), Fantasy Fiction August 1953. Written by Robert E. Howard with the title of “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter” and modified by L. Sprague de Camp.
  • “The den of the ice snake” (“The Lair of the Ice Worm”), unpublished. Written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.
  • “The Queen of the Black Coast” (“Queen of the Black Coast”), Weird Tales May 1934. Written by Robert E. Howard.
  • “The Valley of lost women” (“The Vale of Lost Women”, original title “The Valley of Lost Women”), Postume, Magazine of Horror Spring 1967. Written by Robert E. Howard.
  • “Il Castello del Terror” (“The Castle of Terror”), unpublished. Written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.
  • “The muzzle in the dark” (“The Snoout in the Dark”), unpublished. Fragment of Robert E. Howard ended by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.

The eight stories of this volume follow Conan over the course of its twenty years. After his mercenary career at King Yildiz in Turan, Conan returns temporarily to the arctic regions contiguous to his native Cimmeria, after which he descends to South and, in the kingdom of Argos, joins the pirate crew of the notorious captain Bêlit: this marks the beginning of various adventures on land and sea in the so -called “black kingdoms”.

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  1. ^ a b c Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). From camp: an L. Bibliography camp sprague . San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 33–35.
  2. ^ a b ( IN ) Edizioni di Conan di Cimmeria , in Internet Speculative Fiction Database , Al from Ruff. Modifica su Wikidata
  3. ^ Charlotte Laughlin e J. Daniel J. H. Levack, From camp: an L. Bibliography camp sprague , San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983, pp. 33–35.
  • Robert E. Howard, Lyon Sprague de Camp e Lin Carter, Conan di Cimmeria , in Fantacollana n. 24 , translation by Gaetano Luigi Staffililano, cover of Frank Frazetta, editor Nord, 1978, p. 190.
  • Robert E. Howard, Lyon Sprague de Camp e Lin Carter, The legend of Conan Il Cimmero , in Great works north n. 15 , translation by Giusi Gius, cover of Oliviero Berni, Nord publisher, 1989, p. 786.
  • Robert E. Howard, Lyon Sprague de Camp e Lin Carter, Conan the Cimmer , in Tascabili on all n. 51 , translation by Roberta Rambelli, cover of Karel Thole, editor Nord, 1993, p. 386, ISBN 8842907162.

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