Introduction
“Blood of the Gods” is an El Borak short story by Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the July 1935 issue of the pulp magazine Top-Notch.
A group of soldiers of fortune seek a set of matched rubies called the Blood of the Gods, owned by al Wazir. To find it, they capture an Arab who they believe knows the location of al Wazir, who has become a desert hermit. After the Arab agrees to help them, despite his fear of el Borak, a friend of al Wazir who leads the caravan to al Wazir’s hermitage and reveals al Wazir’s location at the Caves of El Khour, the Arab is shot by one of el Borak’s other allies, Salim.
Published in:
- TOP-NOTCH VOLUME 97 NUMBER 1, Street and Smith Publications, July 1935
- SON OF THE WHITE WOLF, FAX,1977
- SON OF THE WHITE WOLF, Orbit, 1977
- THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN VOLUME 1 NUMBER 28, Marvel Comics, April 1978 (graphic adaptation)
- SON OF THE WHITE WOLF, Berkley, April 1978
- TERRA FANTASY 77: IM LAND DER MESSER, Erich Pabel Verlag KG, 1980 (German)
- EL BORAK LE REDOUTABLE, NeO, February 1984 (French)
- SON OF THE WHITE WOLF, Ace, January 1987
- EL BORAK LE REDOUTABLE, Fleuve Noir, March 1992 (French)
- BLOOD OF THE GODS, North-West, 1998 (Russian)
- WEIRD TALES DE LHORK #26, Círculo de Lhork, 2002 (Spanish)
- BLOOD OF THE GODS AND OTHER STORIES, Girasol Collectables, April 2005
- THE ‘EL BORAK’ STORIES, Echo Library, March 2007
- BLOOD OF THE GODS, Dodo Press, February 2008
- THE EL BORAK ADVENTURES, Ignacio Hills Press, November 2008
- EL BORAK AND OTHER DESERT ADVENTURES, Del Rey, February 2010
- THE EARLY ADVENTURES OF EL BORAK (synopsis only), REH Foundation Press, March 2010
- THE EL BORAK SERIES: BLOOD OF THE GODS, Paradox Entertainment Inc., June 2010
- EL BORAK – L’INTÉGRALE, Bragelonne, September 2011 (French)
- THE EL BORAK SERIES: BLOOD OF THE GODS, Paradox Entertainment Inc., September 2011
- WEIRD TALES: 101 WEIRD, STRANGE, AND SUPERNATURAL STORIES VOLUME 2, Civitas Media, May 2012
- ORIENTAL STORIES, VOLUME 3, Nuelow Games, July 2012
- SOLOMON KANE AND OTHER STORIES, Jame-Books, August 2012
- ROBERT E. HOWARD’S COLLECTED WORKS, Jame-Books, February 2013
- WEIRD TALES: 101 WEIRD, STRANGE, AND SUPERNATURAL STORIES VOLUME 2, Civitas Media, April 2013
- ROBERT E. HOWARD SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS, Business and Leadership Publishing, July 2014
- TALES OF EL BORAK, Ozymandias Press, July 2016
- TALES OF EL BORAK, Jovian Press, November 2016
- EL BORAK, AVVENTURIERO DEL DESERTO, Elara, October 2018 (Italian)
- LE ROYAUME DES CHIMÈRES, Le Livre de Poche, April 2020 (French)