The Picts, naturally, see their opportunity.

While knights and sergeants in gleaming mail clash in charge and counter-charge on the Aquilonian plains, civil war rages along the Pictish frontier between the partisans of Conan and those of Numedides. “The revolution progresses with hurricane speed. We are introduced to “Wolves Beyond the Border” with a mini-prologue: How, then, do I convince you that this story is the best despite the absence of Conan? The competition for the best Conan story is a fierce one. A potential dilemma given the awesome essays published so far in this series. So, as you can see, I find myself in a peculiar situation.

Lancer Books published it in 1967 along with three other stories in Conan the Usurper. Sprague de Camp finished the fragment relying on a one-page outline discovered with the unfinished manuscript that Howard had written in the 1930s. Except that Conan never appears in the story apart from a mention or two and Howard never completed the story nor was it published in his lifetime. I am to provide proof that “Wolves Beyond the Border” is the greatest Conan story ever told by Robert E. Author Woelf Dietrich looks at the ‘most complete, incomplete’ Conan tale from Howards, “Wolves Beyond the Border.” Read on! Howard expert each week, examining one of the original Conan stories each week, highlighting what’s best in it. Of course, this series has featured a different leading Robert E. And with only four stories remaining, Hither Came Conan is winding down.

Wolf Killer by John Van Stry