The Snout in the Dark

"The Snout in the Dark"
Short story by Robert E. Howard
Original titleThe Snout in the Dark
CountryUS
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Fantasy
Publication
Published inConan of Cimmeria
Publication typePaperback
PublisherLancer Books
Publication date1969
SeriesConan the Cimmerian

"The Snout in the Dark" is one of the original short stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, an untitled fragment begun in the 1930s but not finished or published in Howard's lifetime. It was completed and titled by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter and in this form first published in the collection Conan of Cimmeria (1969). It has first been published in its original form in the collection Jewels of Gwahlur (Donald M. Grant, 1979) and later in The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003).