The Conan Chronicles, 1

The Conan Chronicles: Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle
Cover of the first edition
AuthorRobert E. Howard
Cover artistJohn Howe
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGollancz Conan Chronicles
GenreFantasy
PublisherGollancz
Publication date
2000
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pagesxii, 548 pp
ISBN1-85798-996-1
OCLC59568599
Followed byThe Conan Chronicles, Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon 

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.