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The Slithering Shadow

Robert Ervin Howard

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

This novel features Conan the Cimmerian (the Barbarian) in another rip-roaring adventure. We find him in the desert, scorched by the sun and with a young woman half dying of thirst at his feet. He gives her his water bottle which is almost empty and she, having drunk it all, begs his forgiveness.
Available since: 12/08/2020.
Print length: 32 pages.

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