Letter from Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, to Robert E. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and details Conan foiling a plot to unseat him as king of Aquilonia. It has most recently been republished in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon ( Gollancz, 2001) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) ( Del Rey, 2003). The Conan version of the story was republished in the collections King Conan ( Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan the Usurper ( Lancer Books, 1967). The tale, in which Howard created the character of Conan, was a rewrite of the unpublished Kull story " By This Axe I Rule!", with long passages being identical. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in December 1932. " The Phoenix on the Sword" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E.
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