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by Robert E. Howard
Originally published in Weird Tales for September, by Robert E. Howard, Popular
Fiction Publishing Co. (1933)
Reprinted in The Sword of Conan, by Robert E.
Howard, Gnome Press, Inc. (1952)
Current source: Conan the Adventurer, by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp,
Ace Books New York, NY (August 1981)
| When his plans for weilding the hill tribes into a single army fail, Conan rides back through Hyrkania and Turan, avoiding King Yezdigerd's parols and sharing the tents of his former kozak companions. Big wars rage in the West and scenting greener pastures and larger loot, Conan returns to the Hyborian kingdoms. Almuric, prince of Koth, has rebelled against the hated King Strabonus. He has raised a formidable army from far and wide, and Conan signs up with him. Strabonus' neighbors, however, come to his aid. The rebel cause fails, and Almuric's motley army is driven south. They cut their way through the lands of Shem, the borders of Stygia, and into the grasslands of Kush. Here they are run down and wiped out by the combined black and Stygian forces at the edge of the southern desert. Conan is one of the few survivors. |
Chapters:
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
