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Post by johnnypt on Sept 1, 2017 8:27:12 GMT -5
What if Farnsworth had decided to take the four unpublished stories? Checking out Weird Tales and finding issues where Howard did not have anything in, story or poem, here are what I think would have been the most likely placements (Iron Shadows and Queen are the anomalies since they waited around a year before publication):
The Frost Giant's Daughter: February 1933 (ironically a year before the revised one appeared elsewhere)
God in the Bowl: August 1933
Vale of Lost Women: July 1934
The Black Stranger: July-Oct 1935
I figure FGD would have been published before GitB since, well, it's a better story. Then as Conan became successful, they would have taken whatever Conan they had their hands on and published it next (Hey, can we have that other story we rejected back?). Now why didn't he do IS and Queen sooner? Payment issues? Got me. Then as they ran out of Conan again in '34, put out Vale. Black Stranger directly following Black River, no brainer.
Quality-wise, he probably should have taken TFGD and TBS, the other two I could certainly see an argument that they aren't top drawer material. But are they really any worse than anything else that appeared in those issues by authors we've all either forgotten or never heard of? Plus, considering he hadn't been paying REH in a timely fashion, would he have wanted to add to the pile? Oh, what might have been... |
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Post by Jason Aiken on Feb 5, 2019 21:20:20 GMT -5
What if Farnsworth had decided to take the four unpublished stories? Checking out Weird Tales and finding issues where Howard did not have anything in, story or poem, here are what I think would have been the most likely placements (Iron Shadows and Queen are the anomalies since they waited around a year before publication):
The Frost Giant's Daughter: February 1933 (ironically a year before the revised one appeared elsewhere)
God in the Bowl: August 1933
Vale of Lost Women: July 1934
The Black Stranger: July-Oct 1935
I love it, johnny! Weird Tales February 1933 - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61934Weird Tales August 1933 - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61896Weird Tales July 1934 - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61981Weird Tales 1935: July - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61982August - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61898September - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62138October - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62122Wouldn't July and August be a sweet spot for "The Black Stranger?" Following right on the heels of "Beyond the Black River"...that's four parts of Hyborian Age frontier action in four months! The big pain in the ass are those serials by the Binders and Doctor Satan by Paul Ernst. From what I hear Dr. Satan and it's ilk kind of got lambasted by Weird Tales readers wanting them to keep super science out of Weird Tales. |
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Post by johnnypt on Feb 6, 2019 8:45:49 GMT -5
What if Farnsworth had decided to take the four unpublished stories? Checking out Weird Tales and finding issues where Howard did not have anything in, story or poem, here are what I think would have been the most likely placements (Iron Shadows and Queen are the anomalies since they waited around a year before publication):
The Frost Giant's Daughter: February 1933 (ironically a year before the revised one appeared elsewhere)
God in the Bowl: August 1933
Vale of Lost Women: July 1934
The Black Stranger: July-Oct 1935
I love it, johnny! Weird Tales February 1933 - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61934Weird Tales August 1933 - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61896Weird Tales July 1934 - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61981Weird Tales 1935: July - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61982August - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61898September - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62138October - www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?62122Wouldn't July and August be a sweet spot for "The Black Stranger?" Following right on the heels of "Beyond the Black River"...that's four parts of Hyborian Age frontier action in four months! The big pain in the ass are those serials by the Binders and Doctor Satan by Paul Ernst. From what I hear Dr. Satan and it's ilk kind of got lambasted by Weird Tales readers wanting them to keep super science out of Weird Tales. Yeah, they do seem to be roadblocks in this little trip into an alternate universe  But the 1933 issues have a bunch of things I don't think anyone would've missed. The July '34 issue has some good things in there, Vale might have been put of place! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2019 12:04:47 GMT -5
Just wondering what the impact would have been on Robert E. Howard's Conan yarns if Farnsworth Wright had accepted The Frost-Giant's Daughter and God in the Bowl?
It's probable that he would've taken a different direction with the adventures of the Cimmerian. It's likely that we woulda seen at least one more yarn with Thoth-Amon.
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Post by johnnypt on Feb 6, 2019 12:22:35 GMT -5
Just wondering what the impact would have been on Robert E. Howard's Conan yarns if Farnsworth Wright had accepted The Frost-Giant's Daughter and God in the Bowl? It's probable that he would've taken a different direction with the adventures of the Cimmerian. It's likely that we woulda seen at least one more yarn with Thoth-Amon. You could almost hear Farnsworth writing REH: Readers have reacted favorably to the Conan-Thoth Amon stories, would accept more along these lines. |
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But the 1933 issues have a bunch of things I don't think anyone would've missed. The July '34 issue has some good things in there, Vale might have been put of place!