Clifford Ball 28 min read

Before the throne of Queen Nione stands a chained giant, scarred from the difficulty of his capture, gazing insolently over her head as she loses her temper and threatens the plucking-tongs.

Clifford Ball's 1937 Weird Tales story is a vivid sword-and-sorcery adventure in the Howardian mode, following the defiant, accursed warrior Duar. Colorful, muscular pulp fantasy. Read it for classic 1930s heroic fantasy, a bold barbarian, a haughty queen, and dark magic afoot.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

28 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage