Speculative Vision

the original Conan story's written by Robert E. Howard were significantly changed and altered.
the Barbarian keep tells in some detail about this.
http://www.barbariankeep.com/index.html
and it is a interesting read

to go directly to the article about the edited Conan story use the link below

http://www.barbariankeep.com/edited.html

the good news is that the original story's as Robert E. Howard wrote them is available again.
so they are on my list of books to get.