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Issued: January 1974 Sphere Books London ISBN 0722146922 Paperback Cover illustration by Frank Frazetta 192 pages Notes Volume 4 in the Conan saga. First published as a five part serial in Weird Tales running from December 1935 to April 1936, then in book format by Gnome Press in 1950.
Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
Conan, the gigantic barbarian from the wilds of Cimmeria, was now King of Aquilonia. The lawless, hard-bitten adventurer had grown into an able statesman and Aquilonia was flourishing under his firm, but tolerant, rule. But a plot was brewing in the neighbouring Kingdom of Nemedia – a plot to bring down the King of Aquilonia by means of the sinister sorcery of a bygone age.
'Howard’s words rang like strokes of brazen sledges on the anvil of some war-god’s smithy! This is not mere narration – his scenes of carnage evoke an almost tangible smell of blood. Our ears are deafened by the clash of sword and war-axe on buckler and mail. We flee half mad with fear, through night-black, adder-haunted swamps . . .’ |
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