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- 32759
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: Red Nails
- date: None
- words: 31895
- flesch: 87
- summary: It was Valeria who exclaimed, but they both started violently, and Conan wheeled like a cat, his great sword flashing into his hand. The thicket was violently agitated, and Valeria clutched Conan's arm hard.
- keywords: allies; altar; ancestors; ancient; arm; arms; away; aye; barbarian; beard; belt; black; blade; blazing; blood; blow; blue; body; bones; branches; breast; broad; broken; bronze; burning; captive; catacombs; chamber; cimmerian; city; close; conan; corridor; couch; crag; crimson; cry; cut; dais; dark; darkness; dead; death; deep; devil; dim; dog; door; dragons; drink; end; enemies; escape; eyes; face; far; fear; feet; feud; fighting; figure; fingers; fire; flesh; floor; foot; forest; free; friends; fury; gate; giant; girl; glow; gold; great; green; guard; hair; half; hall; hand; head; heavy; hell; high; huge; human; instant; iron; ivory; jade; jaws; jewels; knees; lay; leaves; left; leg; legs; life; like; limbs; lips; live; long; look; low; mad; madness; man; men; moment; monster; mouth; muscles; muttered; nails; naked; near; night; noise; olmec; open; past; people; pirate; place; plain; prince; princess; quick; reach; red; rock; roof; room; run; scene; seat; secret; set; shaking; short; shoulders; silence; silent; silk; skinned; skull; slay; sleep; slew; soul; sound; sprang; stair; steel; stone; strength; sun; sword; tall; tascela; techotl; tecuhltli; teeth; terror; thing; thought; throat; throne; thrust; tier; time; tolkemec; topal; tree; valeria; voice; wall; warrior; weird; white; wide; wild; wind; woman; world; wounded; wrist; xatmec; xotalanc; xuchotl; yanath; yasala; years; zarallo
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- 42182
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: The Hyborian Age
- date: None
- words: 8988
- flesch: 64
- summary: There were other kingdoms, equally civilized, but inhabited by different, and apparently older races. Neither the squalid Picts nor the apish Atlanteans have any contact with other tribes or peoples.
- keywords: ancient; aquilonia; argos; armies; arus; atlanteans; barbarians; black; blood; borders; bossonians; brythunia; cataclysm; centuries; chief; cimmerians; cities; civilization; civilized; clans; conquered; conquerors; contact; continent; country; culture; dark; descendants; east; eastern; empire; eyes; far; gorm; great; haired; hills; history; human; hyborian; hyperborea; hyrkanians; inland; invasion; islands; kingdom; kings; koth; lands; later; lemurians; long; man; men; mercenaries; mixed; mountains; nemedia; new; nordic; north; northern; old; people; pictish; picts; power; race; savages; sea; shem; shemites; sir; south; southern; stygia; thousands; thurian; time; tribes; vast; warriors; wars; western; westward; world; years; zamora; zingara; zingarans
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- 42183
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: Queen of the Black Coast
- date: None
- words: 11621
- flesch: 86
- summary: Black men came up the river in long boats with skulls grinning on the prows, or stole stooping through the trees, spear in hand. There was a confusion of movement, a writhing and melting of lights and shadows, against a background of black jungle, green stone ruins and murky river.
- keywords: air; argus; arms; arrows; battle; beast; black; blade; blood; blue; bodies; body; bows; broad; broken; bĂȘlit; cimmerian; city; cloak; coast; conan; crimson; cry; dark; death; deck; devil; dripping; ebon; eyed; eyes; fallen; fangs; far; fear; feet; fierce; figure; fire; fury; galley; gods; gold; good; great; green; hand; heart; high; horror; huge; instant; ivory; jewels; jungle; legs; life; light; like; lips; long; love; man; master; men; moon; n'gora; naked; oars; ocean; old; panting; people; pirates; poop; pyramid; queen; quick; red; river; rose; sail; sailors; scarlet; sea; serpent; shadows; shape; ship; shore; shoulders; silence; sky; slim; song; soul; spearmen; spears; steel; stone; sun; sweep; sword; tall; thought; throat; tigress; time; tito; towers; trees; walls; warriors; water; way; wharfs; white; wide; wind; winged
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- 42188
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: Shadows in the Moonlight
- date: None
- words: 12366
- flesch: 90
- summary: Once within, Conan grunted in surprize, and Olivia stifled a scream. The southern night swept down quickly, littering the dark blue sky with great white stars, and Conan entered the shadowy ruins, drawing the reluctant Olivia after him.
- keywords: amurath; aratus; arms; awful; aye; band; barbarian; battle; black; blood; blue; boat; broken; cimmerian; cliffs; companion; conan; crom; cry; cut; dark; darkness; dawn; day; distance; dog; dogs; edge; eyes; face; fear; feet; figures; fire; flesh; gaze; girl; grass; great; green; hall; hand; head; heart; horror; human; hyrkanian; instant; iron; island; leaves; left; life; like; limbs; lips; long; man; massive; men; moonlight; naked; night; oars; olivia; open; pirates; plateau; quick; red; reeds; rim; rocks; rose; ruins; sail; sea; sergius; shadows; shah; shore; shoulder; silence; silent; sky; sleep; slope; stars; statues; stone; stranger; sun; sword; tall; terror; thicket; thought; time; trees; voice; walls; water; way; white; wide; wild; wonder; woods; youth
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- 42196
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: Shadows in Zamboula
- date: None
- words: 12436
- flesch: 87
- summary: Conan spat in disgust, and a moment later led his companion out into the road which was becoming a street, with still, unlighted houses on each side. 'Lying in wait, beneath a dark arch--black men, like great, hulking apes!
- keywords: alafdhal; aram; aram baksh; arms; baal; baksh; barbarian; belt; black; blood; body; bolt; brown; chamber; cimmerian; city; close; conan; corridor; court; dance; dark; demon; desert; divan; door; drum; dust; eyes; face; fear; feet; fingers; flesh; floor; gate; giant; girl; gold; great; groves; hair; hand; hanuman; head; house; human; huts; instant; iron; ivory; jungir; khan; left; like; long; lover; low; mad; man; marble; men; naked; neck; night; open; opening; palm; past; people; pit; priests; pteor; red; road; room; satrap; set; shadows; short; shoulders; shrine; silent; small; soft; square; starlight; stars; strangers; streets; strength; strong; supple; sword; tavern; temple; thick; throat; totrasmek; trees; turanian; wall; way; west; young; zabibi; zamboula
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- 42209
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: The Devil in Iron
- date: None
- words: 12469
- flesch: 85
- summary: Conan half expected some other monstrosity to leap at him with the opening of the door, but in the dimmer light he saw only the vague sweep of the arch above, a dully gleaming block of gold, and a half-moon glimmer on the stone. 'It is that devil Conan; he is even wilder than the _kozaks_, yet he is crafty as a mountain lion.
- keywords: ages; agha; arms; battlements; black; blade; blood; blue; boat; body; breast; broad; broken; chamber; city; clear; cliffs; conan; cry; cut; dagon; dais; dark; darkness; dead; death; devil; dim; dome; door; dream; edge; escape; eyes; faint; far; fear; feet; figure; fingers; fire; fisherman; flesh; floor; ghaznavi; giant; girl; golden; great; green; hair; haired; half; hand; head; human; instant; island; jehungir; khawarizm; khel; khosatral; knife; kozaks; like; limbs; locked; long; man; men; metal; muscular; new; night; octavia; outside; people; place; race; reeds; room; ruins; saw; scimitar; sea; short; shoulders; silence; silk; skin; sound; stair; steel; steppes; steps; stone; strange; sword; terrible; thick; thing; thought; throne; time; towers; trees; vilayet; voice; walls; water; way; wild; woman; xapur; yuetshi
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- 42227
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: A Witch Shall Be Born
- date: None
- words: 16766
- flesch: 86
- summary: They were young men, but hard and sinewy, with a bearing that comes only to men rendered desperate by adversity. Constantius, whom men called Falcon, was tall, broad-shouldered, slim-waisted, lithe and strong as pliant steel.
- keywords: agony; armed; armor; arms; arrows; aye; battle; bearded; bent; better; black; blood; blue; body; broad; captain; chamber; chief; cimmerian; city; conan; constantius; corridor; crimson; cross; crystal; cut; dark; darkness; dead; death; deep; desert; devil; door; dust; ears; east; eyes; face; fall; far; fear; feet; fighting; figure; fingers; flesh; floor; fool; gate; giant; girl; glare; gold; good; great; guard; guardsmen; hair; half; hands; hard; head; heavy; hell; horsemen; iron; ishtar; khauran; kingdom; lean; left; life; like; lips; long; low; man; marble; men; mercenaries; months; muscles; mustache; muttered; naked; night; nomads; olgerd; opposite; order; outside; palace; people; plain; priest; queen; red; river; salome; shemites; shemitish; shoulders; siege; silk; sister; skin; skull; soft; soldiers; sound; south; spite; square; steel; steps; sun; sweet; sword; taramis; teeth; temple; thought; time; tower; true; valerius; voice; vultures; walls; way; western; white; wine; witch; woman; world; wounds; young; zuagirs
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- 42236
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: Jewels of Gwahlur
- date: None
- words: 17575
- flesch: 82
- summary: Gorulga was booming forth some kind of a chant in an accent unfamiliar to Conan, and which was probably some invocation in the ancient tongue of Alkmeenon, handed down from generation to generation of high priests. But these misty legends had been enough to bring Conan to Keshan, over vast distances of plain, river-laced jungle, and mountains.
- keywords: acolytes; alcove; alkmeenon; altar; ancient; aperture; arch; arches; arms; black; blood; blue; body; broad; broken; cavern; chamber; chest; cimmerian; city; cliffs; conan; corinthian; corridor; crom; cut; dais; darkness; dead; death; deep; deserted; door; ears; eyes; face; far; feet; fighting; figure; floor; foot; gallery; girl; glance; glow; goddess; gods; gold; gong; gorulga; great; gwahlur; gwarunga; hair; half; hall; hand; head; hiding; high; human; instant; ivory; jewels; jungle; keshan; keshia; kingdom; kings; ledge; left; life; light; like; lips; little; long; man; marble; men; metal; mouth; muriela; narrow; niche; open; oracle; palace; past; pelishtim; people; point; priests; punt; rest; river; roof; room; secret; servants; shadows; short; shoulders; skirt; sound; space; span; spot; stair; steps; stone; stygian; sword; teeth; thick; thought; throne; thutmekri; time; torches; treasure; trees; tunnel; valley; visible; voice; wall; water; way; wide; world; yakin; yelaya; zargheba; zembabwei
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- 42243
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: The Hour of the Dragon
- date: None
- words: 73669
- flesch: 86
- summary: Old men on settles before inns under spreading oak branches called greetings to the wayfarer. From the men that worked the fields, from the garrulous old men in the inns where he slaked his thirst with great leathern jacks of foaming ale, from the sharp-eyed silk-clad merchants he met upon the road, Conan sought for news of Beloso. His name is Conan, and no man can stand before him in battle.
- keywords: acheron; ahriman; aid; albiona; alive; altar; amalric; ancient; aquilonia; arch; archers; argos; armor; arms; army; arts; asura; aware; aye; banner; barbarian; bare; barons; battle; beloso; belverus; bent; better; black; blade; blood; blow; blue; boat; body; bones; border; bossonians; brain; branches; break; breast; bridge; broken; burst; camp; captain; carven; castle; cell; certain; chains; chamber; charge; chariot; chest; cimmerian; cities; city; clear; cliffs; cloak; closed; coming; common; conan; corpse; corridor; couch; country; court; craft; crimson; crom; cross; crown; cry; curious; curse; cut; dagger; dark; darkness; dawn; day; days; dead; death; deep; defile; desperate; dim; direction; distance; distant; dog; dogs; door; doorway; doubt; dragon; dream; dripping; drum; dungeon; dust; earth; end; escape; evil; eyes; face; fall; far; farther; fear; features; feeling; feet; fell; fierce; fighting; figure; fingers; fire; flame; flesh; floor; fool; foot; force; forgotten; forth; free; fury; gaunt; gaze; general; giant; girl; glance; gleaming; glow; gods; gold; golden; good; grass; gray; great; great black; greater; green; grim; grisly; ground; guard; gundermen; hadrathus; hair; half; hall; hand; harbor; hard; harness; haste; haunted; head; heart; heavy; hell; helmet; hidden; high; hills; hold; horizon; horror; horse; horsemen; host; hours; human; instant; iron; jewel; khemi; khitan; king; king conan; kingdom; knife; knights; know; knowledge; land; lead; leather; left; legs; let; lie; life; like; limbs; lips; little; lives; living; locked; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; low; mad; madness; magic; mail; majesty; man; mantle; massive; matter; men; merchant; messantia; mighty; miles; mind; mitra; mountains; mummy; muttered; naked; narrow; nations; nay; near; neck; nemedian; news; night; old; open; orastes; outside; palace; pale; pallantides; past; path; pavilion; people; pikemen; pits; plain; point; poitain; position; power; priest; prisoner; prospero; provinces; publio; purple; python; quick; race; ranks; reach; rest; return; rich; ride; riding; ring; rise; river; road; roar; robe; room; rose; royal; rule; rush; saddle; sea; secret; sensed; serpent; servius; set; shadows; shape; ship; short; shoulders; silence; silent; silken; skull; sky; slaves; slay; sleep; slopes; small; smoke; sorcery; sound; south; southern; southward; spread; squire; staff; stair; stallion; stand; stared; stars; steel; step; stone; straight; strange; streets; strength; strike; strong; stygia; stygians; subjects; sun; sweat; swift; sword; table; tall; tarantia; tarascus; teeth; temple; tent; terrible; thick; thieves; thing; thought; throat; throne; thutothmes; time; torch; torches; towers; trap; trees; trocero; turn; use; valbroso; valerius; valkia; valley; vast; velvet; voice; waist; walled; walls; water; wave; way; weird; western; westward; wheeled; white; wide; wild; wind; wine; wish; wizard; wolf; woman; work; world; xaltotun; years; yellow; zelata; zingaran; zorathus
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- 42254
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: Beyond the Black River
- date: None
- words: 22476
- flesch: 89
- summary: Not understanding, Balthus saw Conan take from his hand the bow he had picked up in the glade, and notch an arrow. In that instant of horror and panic Balthus started up--and then a muscular arm out of the darkness locked fiercely about his throat, strangling his yell.
- keywords: altar; ancient; arm; arms; arrows; axes; balthus; bank; beasts; black; black river; blood; blue; body; border; bow; branches; bushes; cabin; canoe; children; cimmerian; civilization; civilized; close; companion; conajohara; conan; cry; dark; darkness; dead; death; deep; deeper; dense; devil; dim; direction; dog; eastern; eyes; face; fangs; far; fear; feet; fighting; figure; fire; flame; flesh; forest; fort; free; frontier; gate; good; great; grim; ground; gwawela; hair; half; hand; head; hell; hideous; hold; horror; howling; human; huts; instant; jhebbal; knife; land; left; life; like; logs; long; look; low; mad; magic; making; man; marches; men; miles; muttered; naked; near; night; noise; open; path; people; pictish; picts; red; river; road; run; sag; set; settlers; shadows; shaman; short; shoulder; silence; slasher; small; soldiers; sound; south; sprang; sword; tauran; teeth; things; throat; thrust; thunder; tiberias; time; trail; trees; valannus; velitrium; village; voice; wall; warning; warriors; way; white; wide; wild; woman; woods; woodsman; yell; young; zogar
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- 42259
- author: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
- title: The People of the Black Circle
- date: None
- words: 31529
- flesch: 87
- summary: An hour's ride westward or northward and one crossed the border and was among the Hills where men lived by the law of the knife. Women have been stolen and men stabbed between the fort and the city.
- keywords: acolytes; afghulis; afghulistan; afzal; agony; air; altar; arm; arms; bars; bearded; bent; black; blade; blood; blue; body; border; bow; breast; broken; bronze; burst; captive; castle; chamber; chief; chunder; cimmerian; city; cloud; conan; crags; crimson; crom; cross; cry; crystal; cut; dais; darkness; dead; death; deep; devi; dim; dogs; door; ears; edge; eyes; face; fall; far; farther; fear; features; feet; fierce; fighting; figure; fingers; fire; flesh; floor; foot; fortress; fury; garments; gate; gaze; gesture; girdle; girl; gold; golden; gorge; governor; great; green; guard; hair; half; hand; head; high; hillman; hills; hilt; hold; hoofs; horror; horse; human; instant; invisible; irakzai; jade; kerim; khemsa; khurum; king; knife; knives; kshatriyas; left; life; like; lips; long; low; mad; man; master; men; mind; mist; mountain; mouth; movement; muttered; naked; narrow; neck; night; open; outside; pass; past; path; people; peshkhauri; place; point; ragged; ravine; reach; riders; ridge; road; robed; rock; room; royal; saddle; secunderam; seers; serpent; shadowy; shaft; shah; shan; shape; short; shoulder; silence; slopes; soft; soul; spear; stair; stallion; starlight; stars; steel; steps; stone; strange; strength; strong; sun; sword; table; terror; thought; thrust; time; tower; trail; tribesmen; turanian; turban; turn; upward; valley; velvet; vendhya; village; voice; wall; warrior; water; way; wazuli; white; wide; wild; wind; wizards; wolves; woman; words; yar; yasmina; yezdigerd; yimsha; zhaibar
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