Is Black Stranger in third Conan Del Rey book?

[Iron_Chef]

Does anybody know if The Black Stranger is going to be included in the third Conan Del Rey REH collection coming out the end of this year? I'd assume it is (since this shoud be the final REH Conan collection), but was thinking about buying the new $10 book "The Black Stranger And Other American Tales" by REH on Amazon. I hate paying for the same story twice, though. :roll:

Can somebody refresh my memory what happens in this story? And is there a list somewhere of what's going to be included in the third book?

 

[Faraer]

Yes, Conan III will have "The Black Stranger", as well as (in probable timeline order) "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula", "Beyond the Black River", "Red Nails", "Teeth of Gwahlur", "Wolves Beyond the Border", and other stuff. But don't hesitate to get The Black Stranger and Other American Tales for all its other stories:

Introduction (Steve Tompkins)
The Black Stranger
Marchers of Valhalla
The Gods of Bal-Sagoth
Nekht Semerkeht
Black Vulmea's Vengeance
The Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger
The Valley of the Lost
Kelly the Conjure-Man
Black Canaan
Pigeons from Hell
Old Garfield's Heart
The Horror from the Mound
The Thunder-Rider
"The Classic Tale of the Southwest"*
The Grim Land (verse)
Source Acknowledgements

To quote Dale Rippke,

The Black Stranger

After a chase of several hundred miles, Conan manages to shake the pursuit of the Eagle Picts. He holes up in a hidden cave and discovers within the fabulous treasure trove of the legendary pirate, Tranicos. After regaining his strength, he travels west to the ocean shore, only to discover a rendezvous of notable rogues at the stockade of a Zingaran exile. He deals himself into the meeting in an effort to return to the Main as a pirate. All of his planning goes to hell when the Picts attack the stockade.

 

[Iron_Chef]

Wait, was Howard's The Black Stranger retitled and butchered into The Treasure of Tranicos by L. Sprague deCamp?

 

[Faraer]

Yes; the endng of the "Tranicos" version is particularly different. Howard himself also rewrote the story as a desupernaturalized historical adventure starring Black Vulmea, "Swords of the Red Brotherhood".

 

[René]

But don't hesitate to get The Black Stranger and Other American Tales for all its other stories:

Introduction (Steve Tompkins)
The Black Stranger
Marchers of Valhalla
The Gods of Bal-Sagoth
Nekht Semerkeht
Black Vulmea's Vengeance
The Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger
The Valley of the Lost
Kelly the Conjure-Man
Black Canaan
Pigeons from Hell
Old Garfield's Heart
The Horror from the Mound
The Thunder-Rider
"The Classic Tale of the Southwest"*
The Grim Land (verse)
Source Acknowledgements

I'm currently reading this book and can recommend it, too. Especially the incarnation story Marchers of Valhalla (the crippled 20th century hero was once a savage Aesir and relives his death in blood and slaughter) gives ideas: think of a Cthulhu-session, where your educated and civilised hero enters some really old ruins and relives the destruction of the city / temple by his barbarian tribe during th Hyborian Age resp. the post- / pre-Hyborian wanderings...

AFAIK there are more incarnation stories with the hero James Allison.