First published in Blades for France, 1975.
Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures
Stories
The Blood of Belshazzar
Originally published in Oriental Stories, Fall 1931.
Gates of Empire
First published in Golden Fleece, January 1939.
Hawks of Outremer
Originally published in Oriental Stories, Fall 1931.
Adapted to comics by Michael Alan Nelson and Damian Couceiro, published as Hawks of Outremer (Boom Studios, 2010).
Hawks Over Egypt
First published in The Road of Azrael (Donald M. Grant, 1979).
Rewritten by L. Sprague De Camp as a Conan story titled “Hawks Over Shem,” first published in Fantastic Universe, October 1955.
The Lion of Tiberias
Originally published in The Magic Carpet Magazine, July 1933.
Lord of Samarcand
Originally published in Oriental Stories, Spring 1932.
Red Blades of Black Cathay
Originally published in Oriental Stories, February-March 1931.
Written with Tevis Clyde Smith.
The Road of Azrael
First published in Chacal, 1976.
The Road of the Eagles
First published in Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
An early draft was published as “The Way of the Swords” in The Road of Azrael (Donald M. Grant, 1979).
Rewritten by L. Sprague De Camp as a Conan story titled “Conan, Man of Destiny” and later retitled “The Road of the Eagles,” first published in Tales of Conan (Gnome Press, 1955).
The Shadow of the Vulture
First published in The Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934.
Features Red Sonya of Rogatino. Roy Thomas adapted this story for comics in Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian issue 23 (February 1973), rewriting it as a Conan story and introducing Red Sonja, who went on to be a recurring character and later to star in her own comic book series.
The Skull in the Clouds
First published in The Howard Collector, Summer 1964.
The Sowers of the Thunder
Originally published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932.
Spears of Clontarf
First published in Spears of Clontarf, 1978.
Howard rewrote this story as “The Grey God Passes,” adding weird elements presumably for submission to Weird Tales.
Sword Woman
First published in REH: Lone Star Fictioneer, Summer 1975.
Poems
A Thousand Years Ago
First published in Night Images, 1976.
The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer
First published in Verses in Ebony, 1975.
The Sign of the Sickle
First published in A Rhyme of Salem Town and Other Poems, 2002.
Timur-lang
First published in The Howard Collector, Summer 1964.
Miscellanea
Mistress of Death (uncompleted draft)
Completed by Gerald W. Page and first published in Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 #5, January-February 1971. This version appears in the Zebra, Berkley and Ace paperback editions of Sword Woman.
Uncompleted draft first published in Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures, 2011.
Recap of Harold Lamb’s “The Wolf Chaser”
First published in Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient, 2005.
The Slave-Princess (fragment)
Original fragment first published in The Howard Reader, 2003.
Posthumously completed by Richard Tierney and first published in Hawks of Outremer, Donald M. Grant, 1979.
The Track of Bohemund (unfinished draft)
First published in The Road of Azrael, 1979.
Untitled fragment (“He knew de Bracy…”)
First published in Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
Untitled fragment (“The Persians had all fled…”)
First published in Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient, 2005.
Untitled fragment (“The wind from the Mediterranean…”)
First published in Amra, November 1959.