Below is a list of the Conan the Barbarian stories that Robert E. Howard wrote and had published in Weird Tales. In March of 1932, Howard had an unpublished Kull story named “By This Axe I Rule” that he recycled with a new character named Conan. This new story, named “The Phoenix on the Sword” was quickly followed by “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” and “The God in the Bowl.”
Howard sent the trio of Conan stories to Weird Tales but Farnsworth Wright, the editor of the magazine, rejected the latter two stories. Wright said that “The Phoenix on the Sword” had “points of real excellence” and suggested some changes. This, the first Conan the Barbarian story, was published in Weird Tales in vol. 20, #6, December 1932 issue.
We’ve published the seventeen Conan stories into eight volumes of The Weird Tales of Conan as listed below.
| Vol. | Title | Published in Weird Tales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Phoenix on the Sword | December 1932 |
| 1 | The Scarlet Citadel | January 1, 1933 |
| 1 | The Tower of the Elephant | March 1933 |
| 2 | Black Colossus | June 1933 |
| 2 | The Slithering Shadow | September 1933 |
| 2 | The Pool of the Black One | October 1933 |
| 3 | Rogues in the House | January 1934 |
| 3 | Shadows in the Moonlight | April 1934 |
| 3 | Queen of the Black Coast | May 1934 |
| 3 | The Devil in Iron | August 1934 |
| 4 | The People of the Black Circle | September–November 1934 |
| 5 | A Witch Shall Be Born | December 1934 |
| 5 | Jewels of Gwahlur | March 1935 |
| 6 | Beyond the Black River | May–June 1935 |
| 6 | Shadows in Zamboula | November 1935 |
| 7 | The Hour of the Dragon | January–April 1936 |
| 8 | Red Nails | July, September, October 1936 |
The stories above are linked to our productions on this site. The complete set of the Weird Tales of Conan can be found HERE.
