‘A Hell Unfathomable’
The Return of the Corsair: Chapter 15 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
© 2021 James LaFond
FEB/13/21
Reading from pages 197-201 of the DelRey edition
Impressions by James LaFond
To begin this reader’s favorite chapter in any Conan story, the illustrator sketches six dark figures, enchained and rowing as slaves in what Howard would call in the text “a hell unfathomable.”
Conan awakens on the deck of an Argossian ship and roars in his kingly manner, “What lousy tub is this?”
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