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3.7/5 AbeBooks Series El Borak Genre Adventure | 3.7/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date Spring 1976 Copyright date 1977 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Published in REH Lone Star Fictioneer #4 Similar Robert E Howard books, Speculative fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Three-Bladed Doom" is an El Borak short story by Robert E. Howard. It was not published within Howard's lifetime.
There are two different versions of this story. The first is shorter (24,000 words) than the second (42,000) words. The short version was printed first, in issue #4 of the magazine REH Lone Star Fictioneer (Spring 1976). The long version was printed the following year in the Zebra paperback Three-Bladed Doom (July 1977). Both of these versions, however, had their beginning and ending substantially re-written by Byron Roark, editor of REH Lone Star Fictioneer. The restored version was printed in issue #10 of the fanzine REH: Two-Gun Raconteur (Winter 2006).
Other versions
This story was re-written by L. Sprague de Camp into the Conan story The Flame Knife. This was first printed in the hardback Tales of Conan (1955).