Beyond the Black River is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine, v. 25, nos. 5-6, May-June 1935.The story was republished in the collections King Conan (Gnome Press, 1953) and Conan the Warrior (Lancer Books, 1967).It has more recently been published in the anthology The Mighty Swordsmen (Lancer Books, 1970), and the collections The Conan...