First published as “Brachen the Kelt” in The Barbarian Swordsmen (Star, 1981).
James Allison
Stories
The Garden of Fear
Originally published in Marvel Tales, July-August 1934.
The Valley of the Worm
Originally published in Weird Tales, February 1934.
Miscellanea
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).
Untitled fragment (“Beneath the glare of the sun…”)
First published in The Howard Collector #9, Spring 1967.
Posthumously completed by Robert M. Price as “Black Eons” and first published in Fantasy Book volume 4 #2, June 1985. This is the version that appears in Nameless Cults (Chaosium, 2001).