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Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.

For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s.

In October 1931, he submitted the short story " People of the Dark " to Clayton Publications ' new magazine, Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror ( June 1932 ).

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

Some Howard scholars believe this Conan to be a forerunner of the more famous character.