The Hand of Nergal

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By Robert E. Howard

1932 - 1933 The Phoenix on the Sword The Frost-Giant's Daughter The God in the Bowl The Tower of the Elephant The Scarlet Citadel Queen of the Black Coast Black Colossus Iron Shadows in the Moon Xuthal of the Dusk Rogues in the House The Vale of Lost Women The Devil in Iron The Pool of the Black One 1934 - 1935 People of the Black Circle The Hour of the Dragon A Witch Shall be Born 1935 - 1936 The Servants of Bit-Yakin Beyond the Black River The Black Stranger Man-Eaters of Zamboula Red Nails Unfinished/fragments The Snout in the Dark Drums of Tombalku The Hall of the Dead The Hand of Nergal Wolves Beyond the Border

The Hand of Nergal is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, a fragment begun in the 1930s but not finished or published in Howard's lifetime. It was completed by Lin Carter and in this form first published in the collection Conan (1967). It has since been published been published in its original form in the anthology Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003).

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