 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 the Wanderer" (Lancer Books, 1968), as part of which it has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian.It was published by itself in paperback book form by Ace Books in 1981, in an edition profusely illustrated by Esteban Maroto.