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Swords of the Red Brotherhood

Robert E. Howard

First published 1976
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella
Series Terence Vulmea

Originally an unsold Conan story titled "The Black Stranger", it was rewritten as a Black Vulmea pirate tale which remained unsold and unpublished until 1976. Howard's original story was rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp and published as "The Black Stranger" in 1953, and soon afterward as "The Treasure of Tranicos" in the Gnome Press collection KING CONAN (1953).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1976 Cover Black Vulmea's Vengeance & Other Tales of Pirates Donald M. Grant Collection 9
March 1977 Cover Black Vulmea's Vengeance Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp. Collection 9
October 1977 Cover Black Vulmea's Vengeance and Other Tales of Pirates Baronet Publishing Co. Collection 9
November 1979 Cover Black Vulmea's Vengeance and Other Stories Berkley Books Collection 1
June 1981 Cover Unter schwarzer Flagge Pabel Collection 11
May 1985 Cover Vulmea, le pirate noir Néo Collection 9
June 1987 Cover Black Vulmea's Vengeance and Other Stories Ace Books Collection 1
November 1992 Cover Vulmea le pirate noir Fleuve Noir Collection 7
February 2013 Cover Pirate Adventures The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 79
June 2014 Cover Agnès la noire Bragelonne Collection 251
2015 Cover The Shadow Kingdom and Other Weird Tales Ulwencreutz Media Collection 171