<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Red Nails, Conan the Warrior</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000FF VLINK=#FF0000 ALINK=#008000>
<H2><STRONG>Red Nails</STRONG></H2>
<B>by Robert E. Howard</B><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Originally published in <B>Weird Tales,</B> for July, August, September and 
October, Popular Fiction Publishing Co. (1936)<BR>
<BR>
Reprinted in <A HREF=../stales/st04005b.html><B>The Sword of Conan,</B></A> by Robert E. Howard, Gnome Press, 
Inc., NY (1952)<BR>
<BR>
Adapted in black and white in the comic magazine
<B>
<A HREF = ../stales/st02001.html>Savage Tales No. 2 (1/3),</A>
<A HREF = ../stales/st03001.html>Savage Tales No. 3 (2/3),</A> and 
<A HREF = ../stales/st03009.html>Savage Tales No. 3 (3/3),</A>
</B> edited by Roy Thomas, artwork by Barry Smith, Marvel Comic Group, NY 
(October 1973, February 1974)<BR>
<BR>
Adapted in color in the comic magazine <B>Marvel Treasury Edition, featuring 
Conan the Barbarian vol. 1, no. 4,</B> edited by Roy Thomas, artwork by Barry 
Smith, Marvel Comics Group, NY (1975)<BR>
<BR>
Current source:  <B>Conan the Warrior,</B> 
by Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp, Lancer Books, Inc., NY 
(1967)<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>


<TABLE width=100%)
<TR>
<TD width=15%><BR></TD>
<TD width=75% valign=top>

For some two years, as captain of the <B><I>Wastrel,</I></B> Conan continues a 
highly successful career as a freebooter. However, the other Zingaran pirates, 
jealous of the outlander in their midst, at last bring him down off the coast 
of Shem. Escaping inland and hearing that wars are in the offing along the 
borders of Stygia, Conan joins the <B>Free Companions,</B> a band of 
condottieri under the comnwnd of one Zarallo. Instead of rich plunder, 
however, he finds himself engaged in uneventful guard duty in the border post 
of Sukhmet, on the frontier of the black kingdoms. The wine is sour and the 
pickings poor, and Conan soon gets tired of black women. His boredom ends with 
the appearance in Sukhmet of <B>Valeria of the Red Brotherhood,</B> a wonwn 
pirate whom he had known in his Barachan days. When she takes drastic measures 
to repulse a Stygian officer, Conan follows her south into the lands of the 
blacks.


</TD>
<TD width=10%><BR></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

<FONT size=4>
<BR>
<BR>

<BLOCKQUOTE>
Chapters:
<OL>
<LI>The Skull on the Crag
<LI>By the Blaze of the Fire Jewels
<LI>The People of the Feud
<LI>Scent of the Black Lotus
<LI>Twenty Red Nails
<LI>The Eyes of Tascela
<LI>He Comes from the Dark
</OL>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>
<BR>


Return to <A HREF = cn01000.html>Conan the Warrior</A>
 || <A HREF = ../contents.html>Table of Contents</A>
 || <A HREF = mailto:dbruce@cswnet.com>Send E-Mail</A>
<HR>
<BR><I>Last Update: 2/4/99</I>
</HTML>

�