Conan: The Thing in the Cave

by Jack C. Harris, Dan Adkins (Illustrator), Gino D'Achille (Cover Artist)

CONAN

High adventure from the legendary Hyborian Age! Now, the favorite of millions of novel readers, comic book fans, and moviegoers comes to the picture storybook.

With great strength and developing wits, here is Conan as a teenager, on the threshold of manhood, come face to face with what he fears most!

Genres: Fantasy

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Jean-Francois Boivin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty lame adaptation of the L. Sprague the Camp & Lin Carter story "The Thing in the Crypt" from the CONAN anthology. They obviously made it tamer for kids, like the skeleton in the cave is now a giant statue. The art is pretty weak, but i guess for 10 year olds it would be entertaining. Since they chose to adapt the earliest adventure, maybe Golden Books were planning on adapting more stories?

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is, Conan: The Thing in the Cave, written by Jack C. Harris, Illustrated by Dan Adkins, cover by Gino D’Achille. It’s based on “The Thing in the Crypt” by Lin Carter & L. Sprague de Camp. So, it doesn’t adapt an REH story, though it mentions “an adventure of Robert E. Howard’s Conan.” However, the core of that story is good. (It was original planned as a Thongor story by Carter.) This version has young Conan escaping captivity and fleeing from wolves, the same as the Carter/de Camp tale. He discovers a tomb holding a giant with a sword. This is not a mummified corpse, however, but a stone statue. It comes to life but Conan finds that the thing’s sword can cut stone. So he does.