| Conan the Adventurer | |
| Author: | Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp |
| Cover Artist: | Frank Frazetta |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Conan the Barbarian |
| Genre: | Sword and sorcery |
| Publisher: | Lancer Books |
| Release Date: | 1966 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 224 pp |
Conan the Adventurer is a 1966 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch. It was later gathered together with Conan the Wanderer and Conan the Buccaneer into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990).
In these stories from Conan's early thirties, the Cimmerian starts as a leader of an Afghuli tribe in Vendhya, journeys into the Black Kingdoms south of Stygia, and ends up as a Zingaran buccaneer.
Chronologically, the four short stories collected as Conan the Adventurer fall between Conan the Wanderer and Conan the Buccaneer.