Conan: The Slithering Shadow (Original Version) #11

by Robert E. Howard

Overview

In the short story “The Slithering Shadow”, Conan is one of the few survivors of a huge battle. Surrounded, he escapes into the desert. On the verge of death, he finds an ancient city which hides a sinister foe.
This is a short story originally released in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in September 1933.
NOTE: Ryetown Classics has chosen to present the Conan Series in chronological order, not in the order they were originally released.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013959019
Publisher:	Ryetown Classics
Publication date:	02/19/2012
Series:	Conan the Barbarian , #11
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	697,736
File size:	149 KB

About the Author

Robert Ervin Howard (1906¿1936) wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard spent time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing—which he also wrote stories about. His tales of heroic & supernatural fantasy won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist.