Jewels of Gwahlur
core short fiction 1935 Conan / Kull / Bran Mak Morn
Record
| First published | 1935 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.69 (522 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781681463810 |
Synopsis
Drawn by rumors of a legendary hoard called the Teeth of Gwahlur, hidden somewhere within the ruins of a forgotten city, Conan travels to the African-inspired kingdom of Keshan hoping to claim the treasure for himself before anyone else can reach it. He soon finds he is not the only one interested in the jewels: a rival group with its own scheme to manipulate Keshani politics through a fraudulent religious deception has already infiltrated the ancient temple where the treasure is said to be kept. Conan must navigate both the temple's old traps and the rival party's shifting loyalties and disguises if he hopes to walk away with the Teeth of Gwahlur, or even alive.
Where it sits
- Universe: Conan / Kull / Bran Mak Morn
- Series: The Conan Stories core; position 12 of 20 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robert E. Howard
Notes
- Howard's own manuscript title was 'The Servants of Bit-Yakin'; published under this title in Weird Tales.
- From the series record (The Conan Stories): 20 works wholly written by Robert E. Howard himself (16 published in his lifetime, 1932-1936, plus 4 complete manuscripts he finished but that were rejected by Weird Tales and only published posthumously in his own unaltered text, 1954-1996), the modern Del Rey 'Original Conan' trilogy (ed. Patrice Louinet, 2002-2005) presents all 20 together as the definitive, textually-restored, Howard-only edition. No internal in-story chronological order is recorded here: at least six independent, mutually disagreeing chronologies have been proposed by different editors/scholars since 1936 (Miller/Clark, de Camp's two versions, William Galen Gray, Joe Marek, Dale Rippke), and Howard himself is documented as having 'had little more than a general idea of the character's career path' and deliberately wrote the stories out of sequence, the same principled non-invention applied to Steven Brust's Dragaera. Book order here follows first-publication-of-the-actual-registered-text year, which is a sourced fact, not an invented reading order.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Conan Stories: position 12 of 20: previous A Witch Shall Be Born (1934) · next Beyond the Black River (1935)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard_bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels_of_Gwahlur
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