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''The Blood-Stained God'' is a 1955 fantasy novella written by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was revised by de Camp from Howard's original story, a then-unpublished non-fantasy Oriental tale that featured Kirby O'Donnell titled "The Curse of the Crimson God" (vt "Trail of the Blood-Stained God"). De Camp changed the names of the characters, added the fantastic element, and recast the setting into Howard's Hyborian Age. The story was first published in the hardbound collection ''Tales of Conan'' (Gnome Press, 1955), and subsequently appeared in the paperback collection ''Conan of Cimmeria'' (Lancer Books, 1969), as part of which it has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch and Italian. ==''The Curse of the Crimson God''== The third O'Donnell story, originally titled ''The Trail of the Bloodstained God'', was not published within Howard's lifetime. The writer L. Sprague de Camp found it amongst Howard's papers and edited it into the Conan story ''The Blood-Stained God'', which was first published in ''Tales of Conan'' in 1955. The O'Donnell version of the story first saw print much later in the paperback ''Swords of Shahrazar'' in 1976.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Publication history for The Curse of the Crimson God )〕 The story was returned by ''Thrilling Adventures'' on 8 October 1935. Howard sent a rewritten version to Kline on 31 January 1936. Kline sent this to several pulp magazines but all returned it - ''Dime Adventure'' (sent 4 February 1936, returned 2 March), ''Short Stories'' (3 March, returned 18 March), ''Adventure'' (19 March, returned 8 April) and ''Argosy'' (9 April, returned 22 April). In this story, O'Donnell is in pursuit of thieves who have stolen from him a treasure map that points the way to the precious idol called The Bloodstained God.NOTES: The Bloodstained God is housed in the temple in the Kezankian Mountains between the borders of Koth and Zamora. The idol is kept next to a large chasm into which it throws its sacrifices once animated. Conan destroyed it by knocking it into the chasm. ==HISTORY== This story has a convoluted history. Howard wrote it as a Conan tale but couldn't sell it so he re-wrote it as an adventure story set in Afghanistan. L. Sprague de Camp re-wrote it into a Conan story. It was adapted in comic form in Conan Super Special #9 (1978). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Blood-Stained God」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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