A Witch Shall be Born

A Witch Shall be Born

A Witch Shall be Born
This article is about a short story. For the protagonist and principal character, see Conan the Cimmerian (disambiguation).
A Witch Shall be Born
Dust-jacket of the first stand-alone book publication of the novella
Author Robert E. Howard
Illustrator Alicia Austin
Cover artist Alicia Austin
Country United States
Language English
Series Donald M. Grant Conan
Genre(s) Fantasy novella
Publisher Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
Publication date 1975
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 106 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The People of the Black Circle
Followed by The Tower of the Elephant
"A Witch Shall be Born" is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in 1934. The story was republished in the collections Conan the Barbarian (Gnome Press, 1954) andConan the Freebooter (Lancer Books, 1968), and the anthology The Mighty Barbarians (Lancer Books, 1969). It was first published by itself in book form by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1974. It has more recently been published in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle(Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Two (1934) (Del Rey, 2005).