The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

Del Rey, 2003. Illustrated by Mark Schultz. Reprints all the material and artwork from Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 (Wandering Star, 2002).

Stories

Black Colossus

Originally published in Weird Tales, June 1933.

The Devil in Iron

Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1934.

The Frost-Giant’s Daughter

The first version of this story was rewritten by Howard as a non-Conan story titled “The Frost-King’s Daughter” and originally published as “Gods of the North” in Fantasy Fan Volume 1 #7, March 1934.

Howard’s original typescript was rewritten by L. Sprague De Camp and first published in The Coming of Conan (Gnome Press, 1953).

Howard’s original version was first published in Rogues in the House, Donald M. Grant, 1976.

The God in the Bowl

First published in The Tower of the Elephant (Donald M. Grant, 1975).

Iron Shadows in the Moon

Originally published as “Shadows in the Moonlight” in Weird Tales, April 1934.

The Phoenix on the Sword

Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1932.

The Pool of the Black One

Originally published in Weird Tales, October 1933.

Queen of the Black Coast

Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1934.

Rogues in the House

Originally published in Weird Tales, January 1934.

The Scarlet Citadel

Originally published in Weird Tales, January 1933.

The Tower of the Elephant

Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1933.

The Vale of Lost Women

First published in Magazine of Horror, Spring 1967.

Xuthal of the Dusk

Originally published as “The Slithering Shadow” in Weird Tales, September 1933.

Poems

Cimmeria

First published in The Howard Collector, Winter 1965.

Miscellanea

The Hyborian Age (essay)

First published in The Phantagraph, serialized over three issues, February, August & October 1936.

Notes on Various Peoples of the Hyborian Age (essay)

First published in A Gazeteer of The Hyborian World of Conan, Starmont House, 1977.

Untitled draft (“Amboola awakened slowly…”)

First published in Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 (Wandering Star, 2002).

Untitled fragment (“The battlefield stretched silent…”)

Completed by Lin Carter and first published as “The Hand of Nergal” in Conan (Lancer, 1968).

Original fragment first published in The Last Celt (Donald M. Grant, 1976).

Untitled synopsis (“A squad of Zamoran soldiers…”)

First published in The Complete Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 (Wandering Star, 2002)

Untitled synopsis (Black Colossus)