page_title: Queen of the Black Coast
section_title: Publication history
hierarchical_section_title: Queen of the Black Coast / Publication history
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of the pulp magazine Avon Fantasy Reader (November 23, 1948, no. 8) featuring Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard. This issue was registered with the US Copyright Office and given registration number AA107687.&#91;1&#93;
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: The story was first published in the May 1934 issue of Weird Tales magazine.  It was republished in the collections The Coming of Conan (Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1969). It has most recently been republished in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003).
caption: "Queen of the Black Coast" was republished in the November 1948 issue of Avon Fantasy Reader.
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