The Frost-Giant's Daughter
core short fiction 1954 Conan / Kull / Bran Mak Morn
Record
| First published | 1954 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.66 (364 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345461513 |
Synopsis
The lone survivor of a brutal battle fought across a frozen northern plain, Conan collapses from cold and exhaustion only to encounter Atali, a strikingly beautiful and unsettling woman who appears alone in the snow-covered wilderness. Sensing that she is no ordinary mortal but drawn to her regardless, Conan pursues her across the icy landscape as she leads him further from the battlefield and deeper into terrain that feels increasingly unnatural. The chase brings Conan face to face with forces tied to old, half-forgotten northern myths, testing his strength and judgment against dangers no blade can easily answer. First published in 1954, The Frost-Giant's Daughter belongs to the Conan the Barbarian series.
Where it sits
- Universe: Conan / Kull / Bran Mak Morn
- Series: The Conan Stories core; position 17 of 20 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robert E. Howard
Notes
- Complete Howard manuscript rejected by Weird Tales in his lifetime; the original Conan text was first published posthumously in Gnome Press's Conan the Barbarian (1954).
- 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 17 of 20: previous Red Nails (1936) · next The Vale of Lost Women (1967)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Howard_bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frost-Giant%27s_Daughter
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