Fantastic Universe Volume 5 Number 3.

Contains THE BLOOD-STAINED GOD by Howard and L. Sprague de Camp. Originally a Kirby O’Donnell story titled ‘The Trail of the Blood-Stained God’. It was re-written by L. Sprague de Camp into a Conan story titled ‘The Bloodstained God’. De Camp changed the names of the characters, added the sorcery elements, and recast the setting into Howard’s Hyborian Age.

Contents

• fep • The Story Behind the Cover … (Fantastic Universe, April 1956) • essay by Frank Belknap Long
• 4 • The Lair of the Phoenix • novelette by Stanley Mullen
• 41 • Second Sight • short story by Alan E. Nourse
• 52 • Meet Miss Solar System • short story by Milton Lesser
• 65 • On the Average • (1953) • short story by Frank Bryning [as by Frank B. Bryning]
• 75 • The Spectacles • short story by Frank Belknap Long
• 77 • Seed of Tomorrow • short story by Sam Carson
• 86 • The Neurotic Rose • [C. P. Ransom • 14] • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
• 98 • The Ninety-Minute War • short story by Richard E. Lowe
• 109 • Sole Solution • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 112 • The Blood-Stained God • [Conan] • (1955) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard
• 126 •   Review: Flying Saucers Uncensored by Harold T. Wilkins • review by Hans Stefan Santesson
• 126 • Universe in Books (Fantastic Universe, April 1956) • [Universe in Books (Fantastic Universe)] • essay by Hans Stefan Santesson
• 128 •   Review: No Boundaries by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore • review by Hans Stefan Santesson
• 128 •   Review: Ark of Venus by Clyde B. Clason • review by Hans Stefan Santesson
• 128 •   Review: Revolt on Alpha C by Robert Silverberg • review by Hans Stefan Santesson

Notes

Edited by Cele Goldsmith
“The Garden of Fear” is illustrated on the rear cover by Leo Summers.
Cover illustrates “Scyclla’s Daughter” (untitled in the magazine).
‘The Garden of Fear’ is listed as ‘Garden of Fear’ on the table of contents.