Conan (Donald M. Grant) Books in Order
Part ofRobert E Howard Books in OrderBrowse the Conan books by Robert E. Howard in the Donald M. Grant editions, with reading order, summaries, and background on the line.
Last updated: June 29, 2026
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Publication Order
10 books
The Hour of the Dragon / Conan the Conqueror
by Robert E Howard
1950
Two titles, one novel: Conan loses his crown, survives the wilderness, and fights back against dark magic and treachery. Howard makes the fall and return feel hard-earned.
The People of the Black Circle
by Robert E Howard
1974
Conan kidnaps a Vendhyan princess and stumbles into a war with the Black Seers of Yimsha. What starts as bandit business turns into one of Howard's darkest, most magical Conan adventures.
A Witch Shall Be Born
by Robert E Howard
1975
A sorcerous usurper replaces Queen Taramis and turns Khauran into a nightmare. Crucified in the desert, Conan survives long enough to lead a brutal reckoning.
Red Nails
by Robert E Howard
1975
Conan and the swordswoman Valeria flee into the lost city of Xuchotl, where two decaying factions have been killing each other for generations. Escape means surviving a maze of feuds, traps, and old madness.
The Tower of the Elephant
by Robert E Howard
1975
Young Conan breaks into a legendary tower to steal a priceless gem. Instead he finds a dying alien captive, strange sorcery, and a burglary that turns unexpectedly tragic.
Conan in The Devil in Iron
by Robert E Howard
1976
Drawn to a haunted island fortress, Conan finds a kidnapped woman and an ancient evil waking from the past. It's a lean adventure of pirates, ruins, and a demon that refuses to stay buried.
Rogues in the House Conan
by Robert E Howard
1976
A thief, a priest, and a politician all try to use Conan for their own ends. Then the ape-man Thak gets loose, and the whole crooked scheme turns savage.
Queen of the Black Coast
by Robert E Howard
1978
Fleeing the law, Conan joins the pirate queen Bêlit and finds both love and danger on the Black Coast. Their raids lead them toward a jungle river and a buried horror older than either of them.
Jewels of Gwahlur
by Robert E Howard
1979
Conan enters a crumbling shrine in search of the fabled Teeth of Gwahlur. Priests, thieves, and false miracles close in as greed turns a treasure hunt into a deadly trap.
The Pool of the Black One
by Robert E Howard
1986
As captain of a pirate crew, Conan lands on an eerie island where captives vanish into a black pool. The rescue becomes a fight against a place that changes people in monstrous ways.
Series background & context
The Donald M. Grant Conan books are built for readers who like to slow down and take one adventure at a time.
Rather than bundling long runs of stories into fat paperbacks, this line presented Robert E. Howard's Conan tales as illustrated limited editions, usually with one major story, or sometimes two pieces, per volume. Books such as The People of the Black Circle, Red Nails, The Tower of the Elephant, and Queen of the Black Coast let each adventure stand on its own.
That changes the feel of reading Conan. You are not moving through a broad chronology so much as dropping into one sharp, complete Howard story and giving it room. It works especially well because so many Conan tales have their own strong identity. A jungle romance does not feel like a desert sorcery yarn, and neither feels like a frontier war story.
The Grant line is also important because it stayed close to Howard material rather than trying to build a seamless expanded saga. It did not finish the whole Conan corpus, so it is not a complete shelf by itself. But the books it did publish have a strong reputation for presentation and for treating these stories as events worth savoring.
So this page is best used as a guide to that edition line, what it includes, what it leaves out, and where each volume sits in the larger Conan landscape. If you like handsome, story-first Conan, this is a very good lane to explore.
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