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{{Short description|1956 novel by Howard Browne}}
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{{Infobox book 
| name          = The Return of Tharn
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         = Return of tharn.jpg
| caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
| author        = [[Howard Browne]]
| illustrator   = 
| cover_artist  = [[Henry M. Eichner]]
| country       = [[United States]]
| language      = [[English language|English]]
| series        = Tharn
| genre         = [[Fantasy novel|Fantasy]]
| publisher     = [[The Grandon Company]]
| release_date  = 1956
| english_release_date =
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]])
| pages         = 253  
| oclc          = 5973344
| preceded_by   = Warrior of the Dawn
| followed_by   = 
}}

'''''The Return of Tharn''''' is a [[fantasy novel]] by American writer [[Howard Browne]].  It was first published in book form in [[1956 in literature|1956]] by [[The Grandon Company]] in an edition of 500 copies, although 150 of the copies were lost to flood damage and perhaps another 150 show some water damage.

The novel was originally serialized in three parts in the magazine ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' beginning in October, 1948.  The book is a sequel to Browne's ''Warrior of the Dawn'' (1943).

The novel concerns the prehistoric adventures of Tharn.

==Sources==
*{{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings  | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=316 | year=1998}}
*{{cite book | last=Clute | first=John | authorlink=John Clute |author2=Peter Nicholls |authorlink2=Peter Nicholls (writer) | title=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] | location=New York| publisher=[[St. Martin's Press|St. Martin's Griffin]] | pages=165 | year=1995|isbn=0-312-13486-X}}
*{{cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=[[Advent (publisher)|Advent]] | pages=69 | year=1974|isbn=0-911682-20-1}}

== External links ==
* {{ISFDB title|20511}}
{{Gutenberg|no=33529|name=The Return of Tharn}} (serial version)

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[[Category:1956 American novels]]
[[Category:American fantasy novels]]
[[Category:Novels first published in serial form]]
[[Category:Works originally published in Amazing Stories]]
[[Category:Novels set in prehistory]]


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