The Grey God Passes

13
Feb

Howard first wrote a version of this story called “Spears of Clontarf”, but it was rejected by “Soldiers of Fortune” magazine. He then added fantasy elements to the story so as to be able to submit it to the Weird Tales magazine under the title The Grey God Passes, where it was also rejected by editor Farnsworth Wright in December, 1931. He then rewrote it a third time, as a horror story called The Cairn on the Headland, and that version was published in the January, 1933 issue of Strange Tales.

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The illustrated Gods of the North

13
Feb

Gods of the North first appeared in the March 1934 issue of ‘The Fantasy Fan’. It is among Robert E. Howard’s finest writings on sword and sorcery. This was the first reprinting.

Rejected as a Conan story by Weird Tales magazine editor Farnsworth Wright, Howard changed the main character’s name to “Amra of Akbitana” and retitled the piece as “The Gods of the North”, in which it was published in the March 1934 issue of The Fantasy Fan. It was not published in its original form in Howard’s lifetime. Later the more known ‘The Frost Giant’s Daughter’ with Conan is more known and more often published.

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