Conan Audio, Under The Tree!

When you buy me that brand spanking new ipod for Christmas, I'd appreciate it if you would load it up with some REH audio books, including the classic Conan tale "Gods of the North" (perhaps better known as The Frost Giant’s Daughter or The Frost King’s Daughter), courtesy of LibriVox!

Special thanks goes out to SFFaudio, for making it that much easier to find these excellent REH freebies!

Now go and get Rowdy!

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Conan In Germany!

We're heading into Germany...I hope you've got your passport!

Heyne Publishing (Heyne Verlag) is responsible for almost every book about Conan in Germany. There were 3 series - the first only 11 volumes, the second over 30 volumes, and third an impressive 54 volumes.

The first series featured primarily “traditional” Conan stories, with a mix of Frazetta and other "familiar" Conan novel cover art...

Heyne - Conan Series I

In the second series, the stories were again primarily those of western authors, and all of the covers were images from the Conan the Barbarian movie...I'm only posting a couple of examples below...if you want more cover samples, email me...or better yet, watch the damn film, by CROM!

Heyne - Conan Series II

It's the third series that you may find particularly interesting...again no big suprises with respect to the authors, but the spectacular covers were apparently all painted by accomplished German writer and illustrator Thomas Thiemeyer! Marek has provided us with many of these, and I was able to find a few more, but unfortunately this slideshow only represents two thirds of the series...

Heyne - Conan Series III

If you like what you see, I encourage you to pay Thomas a visit HERE to enjoy many more of his wonderful creations!

Heyne also published Das Conan Universum, by Erhard Ringer, containing many interesting articles, maps, etc. A beautiful 25"x36" color map (61cm x 86cm) came attached with the book, and this map, along with a whole bunch of other mighty fine ones, can be seen HERE!

Heyne - Das Conan Universum

To wrap things up for now, check these out - German Conan audiobooks!

Step aside Heyne, because here comes four Conan stories on cassette, courtesy of German publisher Delta Music! A bit of information about these can be had on the German website poltermuehle.de. Check out the covers...cool!! (sorry about the quality of a couple of these scans, it's the best I could find).

Conan - Delta Music

In closing, Marek, You sir are a god! Once again, a much deserved THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS MATERIAL (and yes, I'm shouting so that you can hear me all the way from Poland)!

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Space...the Final Frontier!

And no, I haven't posted this in the wrong place...

You've thoroughly enjoyed the Power Records Conan episodes, or maybe not quite yet...in the latter case, you can use the same links below, and check out The Crawler in the Mists!

So what do you get when Power Records publishes a Star Trek episode featuring a barbarian character, that has Neal Adams cover art and John Buscema interiors? Cona... uh... erm... Konrac the Barbarian, of course!

Go check it out! HERE for the comic "BR-513 - A Mirror For Futility; The Time Stealer.cbr", and HERE for the audio "The Time Stealer", and enjoy! Starts out a little slow, but don't be discouraged, it picks up soon enough. Be forewarned, when Konrac first speaks you'll probably giggle like a schoolgirl! (oh hell, I did).

Big thanks for the background info and pics goes out to CROM! reader Mike DeStasio (aka Mikeyboy), who's currently getting his feet wet in the blogger world over on the brand spankin' new Red Sonja, She-Devil With A Sword!

"Sir, level two, corridor three reports a disturbance. Mr. Sulu chasing crewmen... with a sword!" - Uhura

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Conan on Vinyl!

Special thanks to Diversions of a Groovy Kind, who links us all to another blog called The Bronze Age of Blogs, who hosted a couple of links to some very rare recordings of the Conan stories, The Tower Of The Elephant and The Frost Giant's Daughter complete with a full cast and all kinds of crazy sound effects and stuff!

So swing by these two awesome blogs and give them some props! Also, you can get the MP3's directly right HERE and HERE. It's story time, by Crom!

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