The Conquering Sword of Conan

The Conquering Sword of Conan

2005 • 416 pages

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Average rating4.1

15

Howard's obsession with skin color and disgusting racism (bad even for the time in which it was written) eventually becomes too much. My breaking point was in “Shadows in Zamboula” a place whose degeneracy was supposedly apparent because it was populated by mixed-race people. 

Every story is another ivory-skinned white woman in peril of being ravaged by another brutish, monstrously-strong person of color. Pass.