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"Three-Bladed Doom" is an adventure short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his character El Borak. It was not published within Howard's lifetime.
There are two different versions of this story. The first is shorter (24,000 words) than the second (42,000) words. The short version was printed first, in issue #4 of the magazine REH Lone Star Fictioneer (Spring 1976). The long version was printed the following year in the Zebra paperback Three-Bladed Doom (July 1977). Both of these versions, however, had their beginning and ending substantially re-written by Byron Roark, editor of REH Lone Star Fictioneer. The restored version was printed in issue #10 of the fanzine REH: Two-Gun Raconteur (Winter 2006).
Notes
1st printing.
"The Flame Knife" (changed by L. Sprague de Camp) is essentially the same story, but with Conan as the hero.
Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st
- Edition format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- July 1977
- Identifiers
- ISBN: 0-89083-277-3
- Pages
- 171
- Publisher / imprint
- Zebra
- Cover art
- Enrich
- Illustrations
- None
1 linked Howard work
- Three-Bladed Doom story Howard writing Publications
2 contents entries
- Three-Bladed Doom (long version)
- Three-Bladed Doom • [El Borak] • (1977) • novella by Robert E. Howard novelette
Contributors
- Enrich
- Cover artist
Characters / Featuring
Additional related terms
Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.
Bibliographic and editorial layers
Bibliographic source layer
- Title
- Three-Bladed Doom
- Publisher
- Zebra
- Date
- July 1977
- Source file
- doomz.htm
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Three-Bladed Doom
- Publisher
- Zebra
- Date
- July 1977