Conan the Buccaneer

by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter


Originally published in (Great Britain), Conan the Buccaneer, by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, Sphere Books Ltd., London (1975)

Current source: Conan the Buccaneer, by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, Sphere Books Ltd., London (1975)




 From the Introduction
Buccaneers and Black Magicians
by Lin Carter

This novel of buccaneers and black magicians is, according to the internal sequence of the saga, the sixth volume in order of our outline of Conan's life and career. The story serves to cover an otherwise inadequately chronicled period of Conan's biography, those two years in which he was a buccaneer of Zingara. We have used this book to strengthen the internal connections of the saga, too: herein first appears that same bluff, hearty Vanr, Sigurd, who reapears in the twelfth and last book, Conan of the Isles, here, too, reanpears one of Conan's old comrades, that stalwart black warrior, Juma of Kush, who first appeared on stage in the story The City of Skulls, in the first book of the saga, called Conan. We have further tightened the internal logic of the saga as a whole by presenting here the character of Zarono for his first appearance in the series (he makes a comeback in the story The Treasure of Tranicos in the eighth volume, Conan the Usurper), and by using for our chief villain the magnificent Prince of Magicians, Thoth-Amon of Stygia, who frequently makes an aparance throughout the saga as a whole. Conan, incidentally, is about thirty-seven or thirty-eight at this point in the saga.


Chapters:
    Prologue: Dream of Blood
  1. An Old Zingaran Custom
  2. A Knife in the Dark
  3. Death of the Sea Queen
  4. The Nameless Isle
  5. At the World's Edge
  6. Flaming Eyes
  7. The Toad-Thing
  8. The Cobra Crown
  9. Wind in the Rigging
  10. The Black Coast
  11. Web of Doom
  12. City of Warrior Women
  13. The Queen of the Amazons
  14. Under the Lash
  15. The Black Labyrinth
  16. The Devouring Tree
  17. The Wreck of the Wastrel
  18. A Kingdom in the Balance
  19. King Thoth-Amon
  20. Red Blood and Cold Steel


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