![]() ![]() And in the story, there is also a reference to Crom, the fictional god of the Hyborian age that later became a staple of the Conan mythology. Reave is a word from Old English meaning to raid or plunder, which is obviously in the same ballpark as barbarian. ![]() BUT A “PROTO-CONAN” STORY PRECEDED IT.Ī few months before Conan made his debut in Weird Tales, Howard wrote a story called " People of the Dark" for Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror about a man named John O’Brien who seemed to relive his past life as a brutish, black-haired warrior named … Conan of the reavers. The end result was more suited to what Weird Tales wanted, and it became the foundation for future Conan tales. ![]() ![]() The two characters share more than just a common creator and a general disdain for shirts, though: the first Conan story to get published, “The Phoenix on the Sword,” was actually a rewrite of an earlier rejected Kull tale titled “By This Axe I Rule!” For this new take on the plot, Howard introduced supernatural elements and more action. In 1929, the writer created Kull the Conqueror, a more “ introspective” brand of savage that gained enough interest to eventually find his way onto the big screen in 1997. Conan wasn’t the only barbarian on Robert E. ![]()
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