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    The Phoenix on the Sword: With linked Table of Contents
    The Phoenix on the Sword: With linked Table of Contents
    The Phoenix on the Sword: With linked Table of Contents
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    The Phoenix on the Sword: With linked Table of Contents

    By Robert E. Howard

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    Things are not going well for Conan after murdering King Numedides to seize the bloody crown of Aquilonia. The people of Aquilonia are turning against him, and a conspiracy to dethrone him develops.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateMar 27, 2015
    ISBN9781633848542
    The Phoenix on the Sword: With linked Table of Contents

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    • 4/5
      Definitely pulp. But wow, what a writer.
    • 4/5
      This is one of my favorites by Howard. The way this story flows is a perfect premise for the start of this supposed Conan film that Arnold has been talking about for years. He is at the right time and place and the right age to do this. Perfect story to start a movie about an old and grouchy King Conan.

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    The Phoenix on the Sword - Robert E. Howard

    Fantastic Stories Presents:

    The Phoenix on the Sword

    Robert E. Howard

    ©2014 Positronic Publishing

    All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

    Cover Image © CanStockPhoto / prometeus

    Interior Illustrations © Can Stock Photo Inc. / outsiderzone

    Wilder Publications

    PO Box 632

    Floyd VA 24091-0632

    ISBN 13: 978-1-63384-854-2

    Table of Contents

    Chapter I

    Chapter II

    Chapter III

    Chapter IV

    Chapter V

    Chapter I

    Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars — Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

    — The Nemedian Chronicles.

    Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn. Into a dim alley, one of a veritable labyrinth of mysterious winding ways, four masked figures came hurriedly from a door which a dusky hand furtively opened. They spoke not but went swiftly into the gloom, cloaks wrapped closely about them; as silently as the ghosts of murdered men they disappeared in the darkness. Behind them a sardonic countenance was framed in the partly opened door; a pair of evil eyes glittered malevolently in the gloom.

    Go into the night, creatures of the night, a voice mocked. Oh, fools, your doom hounds your heels like a blind dog, and you know it not.

    The speaker closed the door and bolted it, then turned and went up the corridor, candle in hand. He was a somber giant, whose dusky skin revealed his Stygian blood. He came into an inner chamber, where a tall, lean man in worn velvet lounged like a great lazy cat on a silken couch, sipping wine from a huge golden goblet.

    Well, Ascalante, said the Stygian, setting down the candle, your dupes have slunk into the streets like rats from their burrows. You work with strange tools.

    Tools? replied Ascalante. "Why, they consider me

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