Her lithe figure shimmered like ivory beneath the moon."
Queen of the Black Coast
By ROBERT E. HOWARD
A weird story of Conan the barbarian, and a savage white woman who captained a pirate ship, and a ghastly horror in the jungle
1. Conan Joins the Pirates
Believe green buds awaken in the spring,
That autumn paints the leaves with somber fire;
Believe I held my heart inviolate
To lavish on one man my hot desire.
—The Song of Bêlit.
Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs. The folk that yelled and scattered had only a fleeting glimpse of a mailed figure on a black stallion, a wide scarlet
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