Robert E. Howard 41 min read

Fleeing pursuit onto a merchant galley, Conan the Cimmerian is swept into the service and the arms of Bêlit, the beautiful and ruthless pirate queen of the Black Coast.

Robert E. Howard's 1934 story is one of the greatest Conan tales, a passionate, tragic sword-and-sorcery epic of love, piracy, and dark ruins. Vivid, mythic, unforgettable. Read it for prime Conan and the immortal Bêlit, a lush and doom-laden adventure among the pirate seas.

In its time

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

Reading it

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