Beyond the Black River is one of the original stories about Conan the Cimmerian (a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian), written by American author Robert E. Howard and published in 1935. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan fighting the savage Hyborian Picts in the unsettled lands beyond the infamous Black River...The story is considered one of Howard's very best (and most brutal) and features rather significantly a feral dog named Slasher, that wins the deep respect of Conan!