'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
book of nightmares
time & cosmos
the lesser angels of our nature
dark, distant futures
the greatest lie ever sold
masculine axis
sorcerer!
the year the world took the z-pill
into leviathan’s maw
the fighting edge
under the god of things
fanatic
fate
uncle satan
america the brutal
all-power-fighting
ranger?
menthol rampage
honor among men
hate
advent america
night city
logic of steel
taboo you
son of a lesser god
broken dance
barbarism versus civilization
your trojan whorse
song of the secret gardener
z-pill forever
the greatest boxer
on combat
the sunset saga complete
winter of a fighting life
orphan nation
wife—
cracker-boy
blue eyed daughter of zeus
sons of aryas
within leviathan’s craw
thriving in bad places
songs of aryas
let the world fend for itself
beasts of aryas
predation
the first boxers
the combat space
the gods of boxing
by the wine dark sea
on the overton railroad
solo boxing
fiction anthology one
logic of force
when you're food
triumph
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