'A Dingy Ill-Famed Den'
The Black Hand of Set: Chapter 14 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
© 2021 James LaFond
FEB/6/21
Reading from pages 190-196 of the DelRey edition
Impressions by James LaFond
The opening illustration presents a horror started man with a black hand imprinted on his bare chest as he lays still in death on a shadow-cast floor.
“Conan woke from a sound sleep as quickly and instantly as a cat. And like a cat he was on his feet with his sword out before the man who touched him could so much as draw back.”
That’s Robert E. Howard on PTSD before it had a diagnosis.
Read more at:
the greatest lie ever sold
fiction anthology one
under the god of things
wife—
solo boxing
barbarism versus civilization
all-power-fighting
on the overton railroad
ranger?
the fighting edge
honor among men
let the world fend for itself
by the wine dark sea
the combat space
book of nightmares
sons of aryas
uncle satan
z-pill forever
broken dance
beasts of aryas
triumph
into leviathan’s maw
the greatest boxer
your trojan whorse
night city
the first boxers
hate
cracker-boy
the sunset saga complete
the lesser angels of our nature
america the brutal
song of the secret gardener
the gods of boxing
on combat
when you're food
masculine axis
songs of aryas
blue eyed daughter of zeus
logic of force
taboo you
sorcerer!
predation
orphan nation
fanatic
dark, distant futures
winter of a fighting life
logic of steel
menthol rampage
son of a lesser god
time & cosmos
advent america
within leviathan’s craw
the year the world took the z-pill
thriving in bad places
fate