Conan the Barbarian is a 36-book series with 36 released primary works first released in 1932 with contributions by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Andrew J. Offutt, Karl Edward Wagner, Pohl Anderson, Robert Jordan, John Maddox Roberts, Steve Perry, Leonard Carpenter, Sean A. Moore, Roland J. Green, and Harry Turtledove.