Beyond the Black River

Beyond the Black River  (1935) by Robert E. Howard Overview

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Beyond the Black River is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales magazine in 1935. The story was republished in the collections King Conan (Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan the Warrior (Lancer Books, 1967). — Excerpted from Beyond the Black River on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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