Literary Conan Question

[Yodaman]

I've recently read some of Dark Horse's Conan comics from 2004 onward, and after hearing that they're very close to the Robert E. Howard original stories I've been interested in checking out Howard's work. I've heard that the work below, book 2 of Conan of Cimmeria, is the best.

I'm trying to see if there's a more recent printing of this book. This book below, titled The Bloody Crown of Conan, was labled on Amazon as Conan of Cimmeria book 2.

Are these two the same book?

 

[C. Lee]

CONAN OF CIMMERIA:
The Bloodstained God
The Frost Giant's Daughter
The Vale of Lost Women
The Snout in the Dark


THE BLOODY CROWN OF CONAN:
The People of the Black Circle
The Hour of the Dragon
A Witch Shall be Born

 

[Yodaman]

Thanks

 

[ChickenScratch]

I would avoid the De Camp and Carter books till after you have read Howard. De camp and Carter wrote or were editors on a lot of post REH books and did a lot of things that violated Howard's work, like placing a date on the events (thus tieing it to our world by saying it happened how many thousand BC) whereas Howard's world though resembling ours was mostly to help REH organize ideas and locals but was still a complete fantasy. Also it was De Camp who put in the wheel of pain and the Conan finding the sword in the cave thing. He also tried to tie Howard's origin into his by having a backup story in Conan The Renegade (which he just edited and added a short story at the end) where men discuss stories about Conan around a fire and both origins are told but the validity of which one is actually the truth is questioned.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

I hope the reboot of the Arnold movie follows the Howard books

 

[Nivek]

My uncle hooked me up with a bunch of the early 70's Howard/ DeCamp books (and a box of the Marvel comics) when I was like 9/10 years old. Kind of warped my view of Conan, well, at least opened my eyes that Conan wasn't quite the same character Ahnold played.