Conan 09/conqueror

Robert Howard

ISBN 10: 0441114660 / ISBN 13: 9780441114665

Published by Ace, 1984

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0441114660I3N00

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Conan 09/conqueror
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket