It was not age that caused him to leave his romantic profession; nor unworthiness of its traditions, nor gun-shot wound, nor drink; but grim necessity and force majeure. Five navies were after him. How he gave them the slip one day in the Mediterranean, how he fought with the Arabs, how a ship’s broadside was heard in Lat. 23 N. Long. 4 E. for the first time and the last, with other things unknown to Admiralties, I shall proceed to tell. ...
Что можно сделать в необычной ситуации, оказавшись на жертвенном камне в период игр старинных богов? Или же… Все это просто галлюцинации вызванные долгим отсутствием чистого воздуха?
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A 23rd century «time thief» uses a time machine to steal the Holy Grail from King Arthur's knights, but not everything goes according to plan. With a plan like this, it never was. ...
“I’m just looking at the Moon,” she said listlessly. “It’s green. Green as a beer bottle, green as emeralds, green as leaves with sunshine striking through them and green grass to lie on.” She couldn’t help saying those last words. They were her token to the face, even though it couldn’t hear. ...
Two men receive a lot more than meal and a bed when they visit a tavern in the Black Forest, in this spooky story by Fantasy master Robert E. Howard. ...
The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay as they had fallen. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads back-drawn in the death-throes, tilted red beards and golden beards gr ...
Conan has claimed the throne of Aquilonia, but now he must defend it from rival armies and sorcery most vile. Evil magicians and neighboring armies loom on the horizon and all that stands between Conan and certain death is the strength of his sword arm and his wits. Little does Conan know the lengths that he will have to travel to keep his crown. Perhaps Robert E. Howard's greatest work. ...
