Robert E. Howard 12 min read

Blood-mad after battle, a Northern warrior pursues a fleeing, dwindling woman of witch-fire across the snow, a rare, pseudonymously published Conan tale.

Robert E. Howard's 1934 story is a striking piece of heroic fantasy from the creator of Conan, first printed in an obscure fanzine of under a hundred copies. Vivid, mythic, muscular sword-and-sorcery. Read it for a haunting Howard tale of a barbarian, a battlefield, and an eerie daughter of the frost-giants.

In its time

Published in 1934, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).