Originally published in Oriental Stories, Fall 1931.
Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient
Stories
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 Sowers of the Thunder
Originally published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932.
Poems
Timur-lang
First published in The Howard Collector, Summer 1964.
Miscellanea
Recap of Harold Lamb’s “The Wolf Chaser”
First published in Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient, 2005.
The Shadow of the Hun (unfinished draft)
First published in The Shadow of the Hun, 1975.
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.
Two Against Tyre (unfinished draft)
First published in The Howard Collector #12, Spring 1970.
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.