 "The Flame Knife" was later also published as an independent paperback.Chronologically, the four short stories collected as "Tales of Conan" represent an add-on to Gnome's Conan series, coming between stories published in the remaining volumes.The first "tale" would fall within the collection "The Coming of Conan", the second between that volume and the collection "Conan the Barbarian", the third within "Conan the Barbarian", and the fourth between that volume and the collection "The Sword of Conan".