Larger than life... Conan the barbarian is the hero of heroes. The most fabulous figure in epic sword-and-sorcery fiction meets new dangers in "Black Tears", a blazing short novel published in this volume for the first time anywhere, with three other great Conan adventures and an introduction by L. Sprague de Camp.

Contents:

• Black Tears
• Shadows in Zamboula (1935)
• The Devil in Iron (1934)
• The Flame Knife

Book 8 of the 12 part series published by Lancer Ace, though in L. Sprague de Camp's internal series chronology this is book 4.

The Flame Knife was originally a Howard story set in Afghanistan circa 1930, rewritten by de Camp into a Conan story. "Black Tears" written by De Camp and Lin Carter.