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by Robert E. Howard
Originally published in Space Science Fiction for September, by Space Publications,
Inc. (1952)
Reprinted in The Coming of Conan, by Robert
E. Howard, Gnome Press, Inc., NY (1953)
Freely adapted in the comic book Conan the Barbarian
#7, The Lurker Within!, Marvel Comics Group
Reprinted in the comic book Giant-Size Conan #4, The
Lurker Within!, Marvel Comics Group (June, 1975)
Current source: Conan, by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter,
Lancer Books, Inc., New York, NY (1967)
| Conan's grim adventures in the Tower of the Elephant
and in the ruins of Larsha leave him with an aversion to sorcery of the East. He
flees northwestward through Corinthia into Nemedia, the second most powerful of the
Hyborian kingdoms after Aquilonia. In the city of Numalia, he resumes his
professional activities as a theif. |