 In the early 1990s the Russian publishers Troll and North-West (Severo-Zapad) hired local authors to write additional adventures of the Cimmerian.The authors took appropriately sounding pen names like Michael Manson, Douglas Brian, Duncan McGregor, and Paul Winlow (Nick Perumov), the titles, numbering at least 46 volumes, as of 2012 still unavailable to the rest of the world, include new adventures like "Blue Poppies", "Mithra's Gift", "The Heart of Ahriman", "Ghost of the Past", "A Tiger at the Gates of Shadizar", and others.The author Mikhail Akhmatov participated not only as author "Michael Manson", but also in working out the logistics of the project, so that Conan never appears in different places at the same time in the books of the various authors.