page_title: Queen of the Black Coast
hierarchical_section_title: Queen of the Black Coast
caption_attribution_description: Cover of Weird Tales (May 1934): The feature story is Robert E. Howard's "Queen of the Black Coast".
context_page_description: "Queen of the Black Coast" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine c. May 1934. It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming a notorious pirate and plundering the coastal villages of Kush alongside Bêlit, a head-strong femme fatale.
  Due to its epic scope and atypical romance, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his most famous tales.
  Howard earned $115 for the sale of this story to Weird Tales and it is now in the public domain.
context_section_description: "Queen of the Black Coast" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine c. May 1934. It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming a notorious pirate and plundering the coastal villages of Kush alongside Bêlit, a head-strong femme fatale.
  Due to its epic scope and atypical romance, the story is considered an undisputed classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his most famous tales.
  Howard earned $115 for the sale of this story to Weird Tales and it is now in the public domain.
caption: Cover for Weird Tales, May 1934.
   Art by Margaret Brundage
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