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    Shadows in the Moonlight: With linked Table of Contents
    Shadows in the Moonlight: With linked Table of Contents
    Shadows in the Moonlight: With linked Table of Contents
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    Shadows in the Moonlight: With linked Table of Contents

    By Robert E. Howard

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    After rescuing a beautiful maiden, Conan escapes to a remote island where he encounters a skulking creature and mysterious iron statues, and is captured by pirates. Is this the end for Conan?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateMar 27, 2015
    ISBN9781633848603
    Shadows in the Moonlight: With linked Table of Contents

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      Another entertaining romp in this series. I am reading them out of sequence, but the depiction of Conan has really been beefed up by John Buscema's artwork. Gone is the silly helmet of the first couple of books, to be replaced by a shaggy black 70s mane. This is a book with several stories, my favourites of which were the first, 'The Blood of Bel-Hissar', for its general amorality, the urban adventure 'Two against Turan' and the multiple story sequence beginning with the 'Flame Winds of Lost Khitai'. Having a consistent writer/editor of these books (Roy Thomas) means that there are often recurring characters or themes in spite of the episodic nature of the stories.Although it's not really the place for it here, I really notice and appreciate the density of image (especially with re-coloring) and story in these 1970s Conan collections compared to their relative sparseness in the other similar length graphic novel series I'm concurrently reading, the noughties Dark Tower series.

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    Shadows in the Moonlight - Robert E. Howard

    Fantastic Stories Presents:

    Shadows in the Moonlight

    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: 978-1-63384-860-3

    Table of Contents

    Chapter I

    Chapter II

    Chapter III

    Chapter IV

    Chapter I

    A swift crashing of horses through the tall reeds; a heavy fall, a despairing cry. From the dying steed there staggered up its rider, a slender girl in sandals and girdled tunic. Her dark hair fell over her white shoulders, her eyes were those of a trapped animal. She did not look at the jungle of reeds that hemmed in the little clearing, nor at the blue waters that lapped the low shore behind her. Her wide-eyed gaze was fixed in agonized intensity on the horseman who pushed through the reedy screen and dismounted before her.

    He was a tall man, slender, but hard as steel. From head to heel he was clad in light silvered mesh-mail that fitted his supple form like a glove. From under the dome-shaped, gold-chased helmet his brown eyes regarded her mockingly.

    Stand back! her voice shrilled with terror. Touch me not, Shah Amurath, or I will throw myself into the water and drown!

    He laughed, and his laughter was like the purr of a sword sliding from a silken sheath.

    No, you will not drown, Olivia, daughter of confusion, for the marge is too shallow, and I can catch you before you can reach the deeps. You gave me a merry chase, by the gods, and all my men are far behind us. But there is no horse west of Vilayet that can distance Item for long. He nodded at the tall, slender-legged desert stallion behind him.

    Let me go! begged the girl, tears of despair staining her face. Have I not suffered enough? Is there any humiliation, pain or degradation you have not heaped on me? How long must my torment last?

    As long as I find pleasure in your whimperings, your pleas, tears and writhings, he answered with a smile that would have seemed gentle to a stranger. "You are strangely virile, Olivia. I wonder if I shall ever weary of you, as I have always wearied of women before. You are ever fresh and unsullied, in spite of me. Each new day with you brings a new delight.

    But come—let us return to Akif, where the people are still feting the conqueror of the miserable kozaki; while he, the conqueror, is engaged in recapturing a wretched fugitive, a foolish, lovely, idiotic runaway!

    No! She recoiled, turning toward the waters lapping bluely among the reeds.

    Yes! His flash of open anger was like a spark struck from flint. With a quickness her tender limbs could not approximate, he caught her wrist, twisting it in pure wanton cruelty until she screamed and sank to her knees.

    Slut! I should drag you back to Akif at my horse’s tail, but I will be merciful and carry you on my saddle-bow, for which favor you shall humbly thank me, while—

    He released her with a startled oath and sprang back, his saber flashing out, as a terrible apparition burst from the reedy jungle sounding an inarticulate cry of hate.

    Olivia, staring up from the ground, saw what she took to be either a

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