Swords of Shahrazar
by Robert E. Howard 
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Kirby O'Donnell is a Howard hero less familiar to most readers. Howard only wrote three stories about O'Donnell's exploits, of which only two actually saw print during his lifetime -- „The Treasures of Tartary" and „Swords of Shahrazar" -- neither in Weird Tales.Tags
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Robert E. Howard was born in Peaster, Texas on January 22, 1906. At the beginning of his writing career, he primarily wrote pulp fiction and had numerous stories published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales including Spear and Fang, The Hyena, Wolfshead, Red Shadows, and The Shadow Kingdom. He created the character of Conan the Barbarian in the show more pages of Weird Tales. By 1936, almost all of his fiction writing was in the western genre and his first novel, A Gent from Bear Creek, was about to be published. He committed suicide on June 11, 1936 at the age of 30. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Swords of Shahrazar
- Original title
- Swords of Shahrazar
- Original publication date
- 1975
- People/Characters
- Kirby O'Donnell
- Important places
- Afghanistan
- Publisher's editor*
- Walker, Hugh
- Original language*
- Englisch
- Disambiguation notice
- This is an anthology and should NOT be combined with the individual stories it contains or with other anthologies that do not contain the same sub-works. It contains only the five short stories:
- Swords of Shahr... (show all)azar
- The Treasures of Tartary
- The Curse of the Crimson God
- The Brazen Peacock
- The Black Bear Bites
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