The Phoenix on the Sword Robert Ervin Howard - "The Phoenix on the Sword" is one of Howards original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian. First published in Weird Tales in December 1932, this epic tale, in which Conan debuts. Originally a rewrite of the unpublished Kull story, "By This Axe I Rule!" which had been rejected, Howard recreated the story and its hero.

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."He is well known for having created in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.