By This Axe, I Rule

By This Axe, I Rule

Infobox short story
name = By This Axe, I Rule
title_orig =
translator =
author = Robert E. Howard
country = United States
language = English
series = Kull
genre = Sword and sorcery
published_in = "King Kull"
publication_type = Paperback
publisher =
media_type =
pub_date = 1967
english_pub_date =
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"By This Axe, I Rule"" by Robert E. Howard is the last of Howard's Kull stories, set in his fictional Thurian Age. It was first published in the Lancer Books paperback "King Kull" in 1967. [ [http://www.howardworks.com/storyb.htm#byth2 Howard Works] , retrieved 2 January 2008]

This story was rejected by the pulp magazines "Argosy" and "Adventure" in 1929 [ [http://www.rehupa.com/fiction_timeline.htm#1929 REHupa: REH Fiction Timeline] , retrieved 2 January 2008] after which Howard rewrote it, substituting a new secondary plot, into the first Conan the Barbarian story, "The Phoenix on the Sword" which was published in December 1932.

ee also

* List of works by Robert E. Howard

References

External links

* [http://www.howardworks.com/storyb.htm#byth2 Publication history at Howard Works]


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