The Pool of the Black One (collection)

The Pool of the Black One

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Robert E. Howard
Illustrator	Hank Jankus
Cover artist	Hank Jankus
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Donald M. Grant Conan
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	134 pp

The Pool of the Black One is a collection of two fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. The book was published in 1986 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. as volume X of their deluxe Conan set. The title story originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. "Drums of Tombalku" is the original fragment of a story that Howard never completed. It first appeared, completed by L. Sprague de Camp, in the collection Conan the Adventurer.

Contents[]

• "The Pool of the Black One"
• "Drums of Tombalku"

References[]

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 331.