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Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 Number 5

05
Nov

Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 Number 5. Prior to this issue, it was published by Camelot Publishing Company as Coven 13. The company was bought by Fantasy Publishing Company and the name was changed to Witchcraft & Sorcery.

This issue contains MISTRESS OF DEATH. Featuring Agnes de Chastillon. This is the only Dark Agnes story to include a fantasy element, in the form of a sorcerer. It is not written to the same standard as the two stories Howard completed, and features some departures from the established character, making her more stereotypically feminine. The story was not finished by Howard and he wrote two drafts. The story in this issue is based on the second unfinished draft and completed by Gerald W. Page.

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The Witch of the Indies

10
Dec

Robert E. Howard created the character Terence Vulmea or Black Vulmea. This is a pastiche by David C. Smith.

She was a recklessly attractive woman, this Katherine O’Donnell. Fully rigged in the outlaw fashion of her crew, her wild red hair falling away loosely down her shoulders, and with eyes like chips of green flame, she looked worthy of the name that followed her about: THE WITCH OF THE INDIES.

He was a giant of a man, with beard and hair that flowed like black flame, a brace of pistols about his waist and dagger in his hand. There was no match for him on any of the seas; he knew no superstition. But he knew fear when he was challenged by the red-haired wench, he whom they called BLACK VULMEA.

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For the Witch of the Mists

10
Dec

Robert E. Howard created the character Bran Mak Morn. This is a pastiche by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney. The story centers around Bran being captured by Roman soldiers, fighting in the arena, his escape, and recovery and protection of the Witch of the Mists, a powerful demi-god reborn as a human girl.

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A Witch Shall Be Born

08
Apr

A Witch Shall Be Born, published by Donald M. Grant. This was part of an 11-book series. These where published from 1974 to 1989 containing one or two stories per volume.

On the right is a picture of 10 of the books with the publisher’s quarter red cloth over gray boards. In dust jackets. Housed in clamshell cases. These volumes accompanied by their cases are a rare find.

The series lapsed before publishing the last five of the stories and three of the fragments. Sadly several unnecessary editorial alterations to the text have been made in these book. Most of the changes were done to make the text more “politically correct.” Racial slurs, names, and other “potentially offensive” remarks and phrases were edited, as well as some tampering with adjectives, deletions or words, and some punctuation changes.

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The Mighty Barbarians

12
Feb

The Mighty Barbarians: Great Sword and Sorcery Heroes is a 1969 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Hans Stefan Santesson. This is the first publication. It was later followed up by the subsequent Lancer anthology The Mighty Swordsmen. It has been translated into Dutch. Robert M. Price edited a later-day homage to both anthologies called The Mighty Warriors (2018).

The anthology contains A WITCH SHALL BE BORN.

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The Avon Fantasy Reader

09
Dec

An anthology from Avon Books. It contains the story THE WITCH FROM HELL’S KITCHEN also known as THE HOUSE OF ARABU. This was previously published in Avon Fantasy Reader #18.

The book also contains stories by C. L. Moore, Manly Wade Wellman and others.

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Coven 13 March 1970

01
Nov

Contains the poem “Feach Air Muir Lionadhi Gealach Buidhe Mar Or”. This was the last issue of Coven 13. It was bought by Fantasy Publishing Company and the name was changed to Witchcraft & Sorcery.

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Avon Fantasy Reader #18

01
Nov

Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 18 1952. This issue contains the story THE WITCH FROM HELL’S KITCHEN also known as THE HOUSE OF ARABU. This is the first publication of the story.

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The Hills of the Dead

29
Oct

First published in Weird Tales, August 1930. In Africa again, Kane’s old friend N’Longa (the witch doctor from “Red Shadows”) gives the Puritan a magic wooden staff, the Staff of Solomon, which will protect him in his travels. Kane enters the jungle and finds a city of vampires.

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Fantastic Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories August 1972

09
Oct

Fantastic Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories volume 21, No. 6.

“The Witch of the Mists” is a fantasy short story by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in the August 1972 issue of the magazine Fantastic, and in book form by Ace Books in the paperback collection Conan of Aquilonia in May 1977. The first British edition was published by Sphere Books in October 1978.

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