The Road of Kings - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Conan: The Road of Kings [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Karl Edward Wagner So, I’m quite positive that I owned a copy of this book and read it as a teenager. But I couldn’t remember anything of its contents when I rediscovered its existence, with the acquired perspective that Karl […]

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Conan and the Gods of the Mountain - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Conan and the Gods of the Mountain [Amazon, Abebooks, Local Library] by Roland Green Conan and the Gods of the Mountain is a 1993 novel about Robert E. Howard’s famous hero that chiefly distinguishes itself by serving as a tight sequel to “Red Nails,” the last story of Conan […]

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Conan and the Emerald Lotus - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Conan and the Emerald Lotus [Amazon, Abebooks, Local Library] by John C Hocking. Conan and the Emerald Lotus is very passable Conan pastiche, not as good as Carpenter’s Conan the Raider, but as good as or better than the Robert Jordan run. The basic plot concerns a second-rate Stygian sorcerer who schemes to […]

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