Conan the Usurper

Conan the Usurper
Cover of first edition
AuthorRobert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp
Cover artistFrank Frazetta
LanguageEnglish
SeriesConan the Barbarian
GenreSword and sorcery
PublisherLancer Books
Publication date
1967
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages256 pp

Conan the Usurper is a 1967 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch.