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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The first ever Conan story ever written. Funny enough, it takes place near the end of his adventuring career. The series was never told in chronological order, yet that's what made it unique. Still holds up as a solid read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5R.Howard's dynamic style of writing never grows old...I have lost count the amount of times I have read his works each time as enjoyable as the last!??
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The Phoenix on the Sword - Conan the barbarian - Robert E. Howard
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Conan the Barbarian
The Phoenix on the Sword
by Robert E. Howard
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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 spire's 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_ that. For months now, ever since the Rebel Four summoned me from the southern desert, I have been living in the very heart of my enemies, hiding by day in this obscure house, skulking through dark alleys and darker corridors at night. And I have accomplished what those rebellious nobles could not. Working through them, and through other