However, Millennium/Orion/Gollancz Publishers have achieved a measure of respect with their two volumes of Conan tales.

Also taken from unacceptable sources were the texts for most of the posthumously published Conan tales, story fragments, and synopses: “The God in the Bowl,” “The Snout in the Dark,” and “Drums of Tombalku.” One other thing marring the authenticity and correctness of the text in The Conan Chronicles is an uncharacteristically large amount of typos found throughout the book. Howard books has become suspect and is therefore, unless otherwise determined, an unacceptable textual source. Grant have been found to be expurgated for content, the purity or authenticity of D. Because some Howard books published by D. Two of the most important exceptions being: “Black Colossus” and “Shadows in the Moonlight.” The text for both stories were unfortunately taken from the bowdlerized Conan library published by Donald M. This might be worthy of some concern, however most of the texts of interest were taken from acceptable, secondary sources with but a few exceptions.

With this new list we find that only two of the stories were taken directly from the original Weird Tales.

It was said that 80% of the stories were taken directly from their original Weird Tales appearances. Previous reports of the textual sources used for The Conan Chronicles have been inaccurate at best. Access to pure text is especially important for literary criticism and studies, as any conclusion drawn from erroneous or distorted data will itself be distorted. For those interested in doing literary criticism and studies, and even for those who simply want to read what the original author intended, authentic, unedited text is a must. Howard’s fiction has been so brutally expurgated and edited in the past, it is important to know whether or not the sources for the text were edited or unaltered in order to determine whether or not the current text can be considered “pure” of other writers’ sensibilities. Stephen Jones has graciously recompiled the list of sources used to typeset the text for the British edition of The Conan Chronicles. The following information is lifted from Edward Waterman’s website The Barbarian Keep.

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