‘In the Grip of an Earthquake’
The Haunter of the Pits, Chapter 5, Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
© 2019 James LaFond
OCT/20/19
Conan is depicted in strained prose as everything to his near-animal type and staying instinctively silent as he did as a child hiding from beasts in the wild. Howard continues filling in the barbarian’s backstory in ways not permitted by the brief length of his normal-length yarns. It is told that Conan’s behavior was not the result of a reasoning process but instinctive:
sorcerer!
the greatest lie ever sold
sons of aryas
by the wine dark sea
fiction anthology one
logic of steel
when you're food
solo boxing
the greatest boxer
menthol rampage
night city
the lesser angels of our nature
on the overton railroad
on combat
thriving in bad places
masculine axis
beasts of aryas
the fighting edge
under the god of things
wife—
dark, distant futures
your trojan whorse
hate
winter of a fighting life
book of nightmares
orphan nation
the combat space
all-power-fighting
logic of force
fanatic
son of a lesser god
let the world fend for itself
blue eyed daughter of zeus
honor among men
ranger?
within leviathan’s craw
z-pill forever
triumph
predation
america the brutal
the year the world took the z-pill
into leviathan’s maw
song of the secret gardener
time & cosmos
the gods of boxing
the sunset saga complete
the first boxers
fate
advent america
cracker-boy
broken dance
barbarism versus civilization
uncle satan
taboo you
songs of aryas