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Acknowledgments
“Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, December 1956.
“The Hohokam Dig” by Theodore Pratt originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, November 1956.
“Operation Earthworm” by Joe Archibald” originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1955.
“G-r-r-r . . . !” by Roger Arcot originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, January 1957.
“The Hoofer” by Walter M. Miller, Jr. originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1955.
“Conquest over Time” by Michael Shaara originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, November 1956.
“Rescue Squad” by Thomas J. O'Hara originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1955.
“The Shining Cow” by Alex James originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1957.
“Of Time and Texas” by William F. Nolan originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, November 1956.
“The Helpful Robots” by Robert J. Shea originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1957.
“The Flying Cuspidors” by V. R. Francis originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, August 1958.
“The Psilent Partner” by Edward S. Staub and John Victor Peterson originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, March 1954.
“Happy Ending” by Mack Reynolds and Fredric Brown originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1957.
“It’s a Small Solar System” by Allan Howard originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1957.
“The Very Black” by Dean Evans originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, Aug-Sept 1953.
“The Second Voice” by Mann Rubin originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, arch 1954.
“Rastignac the Devil” by Philip José Farmer originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, May 1954.
“Texas Week” by Albert Hernhuter originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, January 1954.
“The House from Nowhere” by Arthur G. Stangland originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, Aug-Sept 1953.
“A World Apart” by Sam Merwin, Jr. originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, May 1954.
“Bear Trap” by Alan E. Nourse originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, December 1957.
“Now We Are Three” by Joe L. Hensley originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, August 1957.
“One out of Ten” by J. Anthony Ferlaine originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, November 1956.
“The Calm Man” by Frank Belknap Long originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, May 1954.
“Foundling on Venus” by John & Dorothy de Courcy originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, March 1954.
“The Doorway” by Evelyn E. Smith originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1955.
“Second Sight” by Basil Wells originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1957.
“Lighter than You Think” by Nelson Bond originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, August 1957.
“The Long Voyage by Carl Jacobi originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, September 1955.
“Year of the Big Thaw” by Marion Zimmer Bradley originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, May 1954.
Gods of the North
by Robert E. Howard
Publisher’s Note: The publication of this strange story by Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan stories, so much a part of the Living Library of Fantasy, represents a departure for this magazine. Without abandoning our policy of bringing you, month after month, the best in NEW Science Fiction and Fantasy, we will, from time to time, publish material such as this, hitherto known to only a few students of the field!
She drew away from him, dwindling in the witch-fire of the skies, until she was a figure no bigger than a child.
The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The pale bleak sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay in heaps. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt: helmeted heads, back-drawn in the death throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant.
Across the red drifts and mail-clad forms, two figures approached one another. In that utter desolation only they moved. The frosty sky was over them, the white illimitable plain around them, the dead men at their feet. Slowly through the corpses they came, as ghosts might come to a tryst through the shambles of a world.