A READER'S GUIDE TO SWORD & SORCERY

KING KULL (Four Editions)

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KING KULL (LANCER/SPHERE) (1967)

"Prolog" (A portion of "The Hyborian Age")
"Exile of Atlantis"
"The Shadow Kingdom"
"The Altar and the Scorpion"
"Black Abyss" [Completed by Lin Carter]
"Delcardes' Cat"
"The Skull of Silence"
"Riders Beyond the Sunrise" [Completed by Lin Carter]
"By This Axe I Rule!"
"The Striking of the Gong"
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom"
"Wizard and Warrior" [Completed by Lin Carter]
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
"The King and the Oak" (poem)
"Epilog" (A portion of "The Hyborian Age")

Third Edition "The Striking of the Gong" was edited by Lin Carter

KULL: THE FABULOUS WARRIOR KING (BANTAM) (1978)

"Introduction" by Andrew J. Offut
"Prolog" (A portion of "The Hyborian Age")
"Exile of Atlantis"
"The Shadow Kingdom"
"The Altar and the Scorpion"
"Delcardes' Cat"
"The Skull of Silence"
"By This Axe I Rule!"
"The Striking of the Gong"
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom"
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
"The King and the Oak" (poem)
"The Black City" (fragment)
Untitled "'Thus,' said Tu . . ."
Untitled ("Three men sat . . .") (unfinished)
"Epilog" (A portion of "The Hyborian Age")


KULL (BAEN) (1995)

"Introduction" by David Drake
"Prolog" (A portion of "The Hyborian Age")
"Exile of Atlantis"
"The Shadow Kingdom"
"The Altar and the Scorpion"
"Delcardes' Cat"
"The Skull of Silence"
"By This Axe I Rule!"
"The Striking of the Gong"
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom"
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
"The King and the Oak" (poem)
"The Black City" (fragment)
Untitled "'Thus,' said Tu . . ."
Untitled ("Three men sat . . .") (unfinished)
"The Curse of Golden Skull"
"Epilog" (A portion of "The Hyborian Age")

KULL: EXILE OF ATLANTIS (BALLANTINE) (2006)

"Artist's Forward" by Justin Sweet
"Introduction" by Steve Tompkins
Untitled Story "The sun was setting. A last crimson . . ."
[Previously published as "Exile of Atlantis"]

"The Shadow Kingdom"
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
Untitled Draft "'Thus,' said Tu, chief councillor, ..."
"The Cat and the Skull"
"The Screaming Skull of Silence"
"The Striking of the Gong"
"The Altar and the Scorpion"
"The Curse of the Golden Skull"
"The Black City" [Unfinished Fragment]
Untitled fragment "Three men sat at a . . ."
"By This Axe I Rule"
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom"
"The King and the Oak" (poem)
"Kings of the Night"
Miscellanea
The "Am-ra of the Ta-an" Fragments
"Summer Morn" (poem)
"Am-ra the Ta-an" (poem)
"The Tale of Am-ra"
Untitled and unfinished fragment
"A land of wild fantastic beauty . . . "
Untitled and incomplete fragment
"determined. So I set out up the hill . . ."
"The Shadow Kingdom" [Draft]
"Delcardes' Cat" [Draft]
"The King and the Oak" [Draft] (poem)

 

Kull appears in "Treason in Zagadar" by Adrian Cole

Thulsa Doom appears in the Cormac Mac Art books by Andrew Offutt