Swords of the North

A rewritten version of “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter” with Conan renamed Amra. Originally published in Fantasy Fan Volume 1 #7, March 1934. Also known as “The Frost-King’s Daughter.”

The Grey God Passes

First published in Dark Mind, Dark Heart, Arkham House, 1962.

Published as “Twilight of the Grey Gods” in Eons of the Night (Baen, March 1996).

This story is a rewritten version of “Spears of Clontarf” with weird elements added, probably for submission to Weird Tales.

Kings of the Night

Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1930.

The King’s Service

First published in The King’s Service (George Hamilton, 1975).

Marchers of Valhalla

First published in Marchers of Valhalla, Donald M. Grant, 1972.

The Night of the Wolf

First published in Bran Mak Morn (Dell, September 1969).

People of the Dark

Originally published in Strange Tales, June 1932.

Features Conan the Reaver, not generally considered to be the same character as Howard’s more famous Conan of Cimmeria, although he is quite similar.

Swords of the Northern Sea

First published in Tigers of the Sea (Donald M. Grant, 1974).

The Valley of the Worm

Originally published in Weird Tales, February 1934.

An Echo From the Iron Harp

First published as “The Gold and the Grey” in The Gold and the Grey, Roy Squires, 1974.

The Ballad of King Geraint

First published in The Ballad of King Geraint (Gibbelins Gazette Press, 1989).

Black Harps in the Hills

First published in Omniumgathum, Stygian Isle Press, October 1976.

Black Michael’s Story

First published as Retribution in Always Comes Evening (Arkham House, 1957).

Also known as The Song of Murtagh O’Brien.

Dreaming on Downs

Originally published in Poet’s Scroll (April 1929), under Patrick Howard.

Also known as King Alfred Rides Again.

Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or

Originally published in The Junto volume 2 number 9 (Lenore Preece, February 1930).

The Marching Song of Connacht

First published in The Howard Collector #16, Spring 1972.

Memories of Alfred

First published in The Ghost Ocean and Other Poems of the Supernatural (Gibbelins Gazette Publications, 1982).

Niflheim

First published in Always Comes Evening (Arkham House, 1957).

The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer

First published in Verses in Ebony, 1975.

The Skull in the Clouds

Originally published in The Junto volume 2 number 8 (Lenore Preece, January 1930).

Song before Clontarf

First published in The Howard Review #2 (Dennis McHaney, March 1975).

The Song of Horsa’s Galley

First published in The Howard Collector #13 (Glenn Lord, Autumn 1970).

The Song of the Last Briton

First published in The Ghost Ocean and Other Poems of the Supernatural (Gibbelins Gazette Publications, 1982).

Akram the Mysterious (unfinished)

First published as “The Tower of Time” in Fantastic Sword & Sorcery volume 24 number 4 (June 1975), completed by Lin Carter.

Original fragment first published in The New Howard Reader #2 (August 1998).

Genseric’s Son (unfinished)

Published as “Genseric’s Fifth Born Son” in Fantasy Crossroads #10/11 (Stygian Isle Press, March 1977) as the first part of a round-robin tale completed in the 1970s by a number of authors including Karl Edward Wagner, Joseph Brennan, Richard L. Tierney, Michael Moorcock, Charles R. Saunders, Andrew J. Offutt, Manly Wade Wellman, Darrell Schwietzer, A. E. Van Vogt, Brian Lumley, Frank Belknap Long, Adrian Cole, Ramsey Campbell, H. Warner Munn, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Richard A. Lupoff.

Original fragment first published in Swords of the North (REH Foundation Press, November 2014).

The Guardian of the Idol (unfinished)

First published in Weird Tales #3 (Zebra, Fall 1981), completed by Gerald W. Page.

Original fragment and synopsis first published in The Howard Reader #8 (Marek, 2003).

The Temple of Abomination (unfinished)

First published in Tigers of the Sea (Donald M. Grant, 1974), completed By Richard L. Tierney.

Original fragment first published in Cormac Mac Art (Baen, March 1995).

Tigers of the Sea (unfinished)

Original fragment first published in Swords of the North (REH Foundation Press, November 2014).

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