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"Black Colossus" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine, June 1933. Howard earned $130 for the sale of this story. It's set... Read Full Overview

"Black Colossus" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine, June 1933. Howard earned $130 for the sale of this story. It's set... Read Full Overview

"Black Colossus" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine, June 1933. Howard earned $130 for the sale of this story. It's set... Read Full Overview

Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that "his... Read Full Overview

" Black Colossus " is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard. Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was an American author who 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... Read Full Overview

The story is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan leading the demoralized army of Khoraja against an evil sorcerer named Natokk, the Veiled One.

Only the age-old silence brooded over the mysterious ruins of Kuthchemes, but Fear was there; Fear quivered in the mind of Shevatas, the thief, driving his breath quick and sharp against his clenched teeth.He stood, the one atom of life amidst the colossal monuments of desolation... Read Full Overview

"The Night of Power, when Fate stalked through the corridors of the world like a colossus just risen from an age-old throne of granite-"E. Hoffman Price: The Girl From SamarkandOnly the age-old silence brooded over the mysterious ruins of Kuthchemes, but Fear was there; Fear... Read Full Overview

"The Night of Power, when Fate stalked through the corridors of the world like a colossus just risen from an age-old throne of granite-"E. Hoffman Price: The Girl From SamarkandOnly the age-old silence brooded over the mysterious ruins of Kuthchemes, but Fear was there; Fear... Read Full Overview

He stood, the one atom of life amidst the colossal monuments of desolation and decay. Not even a vulture hung like a black dot in the vast blue vault of the sky that the sun glazed with its heat. On every hand rose the grim relics of another, forgotten age: huge broken pillars,... Read Full Overview