Conan 09/Conqueror - Softcover

Howard, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441116388 ISBN 13: 9780441116386

Publisher: Ace, 1981

Synopsis

The long tapers flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which lay the green sarcophagus that gleamed like carven jade. In the upraised right hand of each man a curious black candle burned with a weird greenish light. Outside was night and a lost wind moaning among the black trees. Inside the chamber was tense silence, and the wavering of the shadows, while four pairs of eyes, burning with intensity, were fixed on the long green case across which cryptic hieroglyphics writhed, as if lent life and movement by the unsteady light. The man at the foot of the sarcophagus leaned over it and moved his candle as if he were writing with a pen, inscribing a mystic symbol in the air. Then he set down the candle in its black gold stick at the foot of the case, and, mumbling some formula unintelligible to his companions, he thrust a broad white hand into his fur–trimmed robe. When he brought it forth again it was as if he cupped in his palm a ball of living fire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441116388
• ISBN 13: 9780441116386
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback