The Hall of the Dead

by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp


Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for February, by Mercury Press, Inc. (1967)
( L. Sprague de Camp wrote the story in accordance with an outline found in 1966 by Glenn Lord among Howard's papers.)

Current source: Conan, by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter, Lancer Books, Inc., New York, NY (1967)




Becoming fed up with the City of Theives (and vice versa) Conan wanders westward to the capital of Zamora, Shadizar the Wicked. Here, he hopes. the pickings will be richer. For a time he is, indeed, more successful in his thievery than he had been in Arenjun - although the women of Shadizar quickly relieve him of his gains in retrun for initiating him inot the arts of love. Rumors of treasure send him to the nearby ruins of acient Larsha, just ahead of the squad of soldiers sent to arrest him.


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