'To Seek Below the Aspect of Illusion'
A Coin from Acheron: Chapter 10 of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon
© 2020 James LaFond
SEP/21/20
Reading from pages 155-163 of the DelRey edition
The thematic illustration depicts Conan holding Albiona close in the midst of a crystal globe held in the undead hands of a grinning skeletal figure hung with a cowled robe.
Conan, barbarian usurper of the crux kingdom of his age, finds himself in refuge among the heretical cult of Asura
blue eyed daughter of zeus
hate
into leviathan’s maw
sorcerer!
sons of aryas
on combat
songs of aryas
under the god of things
america the brutal
all-power-fighting
by the wine dark sea
taboo you
menthol rampage
when you're food
fanatic
the year the world took the z-pill
fate
honor among men
the first boxers
logic of force
on the overton railroad
orphan nation
let the world fend for itself
triumph
broken dance
cracker-boy
wife—
advent america
z-pill forever
the fighting edge
uncle satan
solo boxing
barbarism versus civilization
son of a lesser god
thriving in bad places
the gods of boxing
predation
the sunset saga complete
night city
fiction anthology one
within leviathan’s craw
time & cosmos
beasts of aryas
winter of a fighting life
the combat space
your trojan whorse
ranger?
the lesser angels of our nature
the greatest lie ever sold
masculine axis
logic of steel
the greatest boxer
dark, distant futures
song of the secret gardener
book of nightmares
Soon the real estate developer may say: "By This Axe I Rule!"