Introduction
“The Fire of Asshurbanipal” was originally written early in the 1930’s like a straight adventure story. There is no record of where this version of the story was submitted. REH later revised the story to have a supernatural ending. The version with the supernatural ending was submitted to WEIRD TALES after Howard’s death by his father. Glenn Lord discovered the original (straight adventure story) version of the story in a trunk and it was first published in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR #16, Spring 1972.
Published in:
- THE HOWARD COLLECTOR #16, Spring 1972
- TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS, Fedogan & Bremer, 1992
- THE NEW HOWARD READER #7, Marek, Spring 2000
- TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS, Del Rey, October 2002
- EL BORAK AND OTHER DESERT ADVENTURES, Del Rey, February 2010
- PROVIDENCE TALES N.5, Providence Press, Spring 2020 (Italian)
- ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER V15N3, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Fall 2021 (fantastic ending only)
Sources and links:
The First time I met Robert E. Howard by Ryan Harvey published on Black Gate. Howard Works.
