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Contains Robert E. Howard’s work
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Weird Tales 1935 June

Popular Fiction Publishing Company

1935
Material type
Pulp magazine
Publication categories
Weird TalesPulps: Weird Tales

Publication date: June 1935

Introduction

Contains part 2 of “Beyond the Black River” is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine, v. 25, nos. 5-6, May-June 1935. The story was republished in the collections King Conan (Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan the Warrior (Lancer Books, 1967). It has more recently been published in the anthology The Mighty Swordsmen (Lancer Books, 1970), and the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon (Gollancz, 2001) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Three (1935-1936) (Del Rey, 2005). It’s set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan’s battle against a savage tribe of Picts in the unsettled lands beyond the infamous Black River.

The story takes place in Conajohara, a newly established Aquilonian province recently annexed by King Numedides from the Picts. Balthus, a young settler on his way to Fort Tuscelan at the Black River, the province’s border to the Pict Lands, encounters Conan in the forest slaying a Pict. Accompanying the young man back to the fort, Conan finds the corpse of a merchant left by a Pictish wizard named Zogar Sag and slain by a swamp demon. The fort’s commander, Valannus, desperately asks Conan to slay Zogar Sag before he raises the Picts against the whole borderlands, especially since Tuscelan is vastly undermanned after Numedides foolishly decided to withdraw most of its garrison. Taking a hand-picked team of scouts and Balthus, Conan sets off stealthily in his canoe.

Notes

Volume 25, Number 6.
Page numbers run from 657 to 784 excluding covers.

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Edition and production details

Format
Pulp
Publication date
June 1935
Pages
132
Publisher / imprint
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Cover art
Margaret Brundage
Illustrations
Se above

1 linked Howard work

69 contents entries

  1. "Beyond the Black River" (Part 2 of 2)
  2. fep • Coming Next Month (Weird Tales, June 1935) • essay by uncredited essay
  3. Non-REH Content
  4. The Horror in the Studio • novelette by Dorothy Quick 658 · novelette
  5. "The Horror in the Studio" by Dorothy Quick
  6. The Horror in the Studio • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 659 · artwork
  7. "Satan in Exile " by (Part 1 of 4) Arthur William Bernal
  8. Satan in Exile (Part 1 of 4) • serial by Arthur William Bernal 672
  9. "Flapping Wings of Death " by Amelia Reynolds Long
  10. Satan in Exile (Part 1 of 4) • interior artwork by Jack Binder 673 · artwork
  11. "The Destroying Horde " by Donald Wandrei
  12. Prince Satan • interior artwork by Jack Binder 675 · artwork
  13. "Dominion " by Clark Ashton Smith (poem)
  14. Feloth • interior artwork by Jack Binder 683 · artwork
  15. "The Spider's Web " by John Scott Douglas
  16. Waugh • interior artwork by Jack Binder 689 · artwork
  17. "The Suicide in the Study " by Robert Bloch
  18. Flapping Wings of Death • novelette by Amelia Reynolds Long 693 · novelette
  19. "The Woman in Gray " by Walker G. Everett
  20. Flapping Wings of Death • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 693 · artwork
  21. "Together " by Ida M. Kier
  22. Weird Tales, June 1935 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Weird Tales, December 1924 1924) 710 · artwork
  23. "The Cup of Blood " by Otis Adelbert Kline
  24. The Destroying Horde • short story by Donald Wandrei 711 · story
  25. "Autumn Leaves " by A. Leslie (poem)
  26. The Destroying Horde • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 711 · artwork
  27. The Eyrie (letter column)
  28. Dominion • poem by Clark Ashton Smith 724 · poem
  29. The Spider's Web • short story by John Scott Douglas 725 · story
  30. The Spider's Web • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 725 · artwork
  31. Beyond the Black River (Part 2 of 2) • [Conan] • serial by Robert E. Howard 734
  32. Beyond the Black River (Part 2 of 2) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 735 · artwork
  33. Weird Tales, June 1935 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Dwight Boyce 754 · artwork
  34. The Suicide in the Study • short story by Robert Bloch 755 · story
  35. The Woman in Gray • short story by Walker G. Everett 758 · story
  36. Together • short story by Ida M. Kier 762 · story
  37. Weird Tales, June 1935 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Dwight Boyce 764 · artwork
  38. Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 765 · artwork
  39. The Cup of Blood • (1923) • short story by Otis Adelbert Kline 765 · story
  40. Autumn Leaves • poem by A. Leslie 777 · poem
  41. The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 778 · artwork
  42. The Eyrie (Weird Tales, June 1935) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 778 · essay
  43. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Our Worst Cover • essay by Edward W. Dew 778 · essay
  44. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Comic Valentine Cover • essay by J. Wellington 778 · essay
  45. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Like a Lovecraft Masterpiece • (1935) • essay by John Malone 778 · essay
  46. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Caligula's Death • essay by Robert B. Baldwin 779 · essay
  47. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Mrs. Brundage's Nudes • essay by Alden Moras 779 · essay
  48. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Keep the Cover Weird • essay by Carroll F. Wales 780 · essay
  49. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): A New Reader • essay by Dr. David L. Dorfman 780 · essay
  50. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Reprint Lovecraft's Stories • (1935) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim 780 · essay
  51. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Out of the Eons • (1935) • essay by Lewis F. Torrance 780 · essay
  52. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Shadows of Blood • essay by Luther A. Cloud 780 · essay
  53. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Bring Back the Nudes • essay by Earl Johnson 781 · essay
  54. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Orchids for Frailey • essay by Julius Hopkins 782 · essay
  55. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Robert Nelson's Poetry • essay by Rudolph Dahlin 782 · essay
  56. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Science-Fiction in WT • essay by LeRoy Christian Bashore 782 · essay
  57. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): In Praise of Mrs. Heald • (1935) • essay by B. M. Reynolds 782 · essay
  58. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): A Seabury Quinn Admirer • essay by Edward C. Davis 782 · essay
  59. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Then and Now • essay by Donald Allgeier 782 · essay
  60. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): More Conan Stories • essay by Annabelle Lantz 783 · essay
  61. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Hard to Decide • essay by Thomas S. Gardner 783 · essay
  62. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by M. G. Crider 783 · essay
  63. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by William Laffler 783 · essay
  64. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by Richard Martin (correspondent) 783 · essay
  65. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by Winifred L. Houston 783 · essay
  66. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by Dwight Boyce [as by Dwight A. Boyce] 783 · essay
  67. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by Don Sawtelle 784 · essay
  68. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Pithy Comments • essay by L. Finn Norman 784 · essay
  69. Letter (Weird Tales, June 1935): Based on Fact? • (1935) • essay by Charles H. Bert 784 · essay

Contributors

Margaret Brundage
Cover artist
Se above
Illustrator

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

ConanPulpRobert E. HowardWeird Tales

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Howard Works source layer

Title
Weird Tales Volume 25 Number 6
Publisher
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date
June 1935
Source file
weirdtalesV25N6-June1935.html

REH World editorial layer

Title
Weird Tales 1935 June
Publisher
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Date
June 1935
Source provenance

This record combines the preserved Howard Works bibliography with a reviewed REH World editorial overlay. Editorial values are displayed when present; Howard Works remains the source and fallback.