Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.
Catalogue facts
Published dateApril 1932
Introduction
This published textual state appeared in Oriental Stories in spring 1932 as Lord of Samarcand. Howard’s original title was The Lame Man. Farnsworth Wright had requested a story about Tamerlane circa August 1931, and Howard received $140 for the story.