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The Scarlet Citadel

by Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp


Originally published in Weird Tales for January, by Robert E. Howard, Popular Fiction Publishing Co. (1933)

Reprinted in Skull-Face and Others, by Robert E. Howard, Arkham House, Sauk City, WI (1946)

Reprinted under its present title in King Conan, by Robert E. Howard, Gnome Press, Inc. (1953)

Current Source: Conan the Usurper, by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, Lancer Books, Inc., NY (1967)

From the Introduction
by L. Sprague de Camp

The two remaining stories, The Phoenix on the Sword and The Scarlet Citadel, are - save for a few minor editorial corrections - in the form in which Howard wrote them and Weird Tales published them in the 1930s.

No sooner have the muttering of civil war died down, than Conan receives an urgent plea for help from Aquilonia's ally, King Amalrus of Ophir. King Strabonus of Koth is demonstrating against Ophir's borders, and Conan rides to the rescue with five thousand of Aquilonia's bravest knights, but finds both kings treacherously allied against him on the plain of Shamu.

Chapters:

  1. Chapter One
  2. Chapter Two
  3. Chapter Three
  4. Chapter Four
  5. Chapter Five