Queen of the Black Coast
by Robert E. Howard 
Conan's Journeys (Short Stories — Short Story 14; Howard)
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Conan the Barbarian, also known as Conan the Cimmerian in some stories, is the swashbuckling hero created by master of the sword-and-sorcery genre Robert E. Howard. In the story Queen of the Black Coast, Conan pairs up with a formidable female warrior, Bêlit, and attacks several villages along the Black Coast of Kush in a series of brutal raids..
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Reading the lavishly illustrated Donald Grant edition of Queen of the Black Coast (and Vale of Lost Women) at the same time as I am reading [b:Swords of the North|23516107|Swords of the North|Robert E. Howard|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1415454392s/23516107.jpg|43119207], I am struck by the same basic theme - that of an overriding doom that man can only strive against temporarily. "'There is no hope here or hereafter in the cult of my people,' answered Conan. 'In this world men struggle and suffer vainly...'"
It is a gloomy philosophy, this "thing of the North," as Rusty Burke put it in the introduction to Swords of the North, and it is very much present in this Hyborian age tale of love, conquest, and lost civilizations.
It is a gloomy philosophy, this "thing of the North," as Rusty Burke put it in the introduction to Swords of the North, and it is very much present in this Hyborian age tale of love, conquest, and lost civilizations.
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Robert E. Howard was born in Peaster, Texas on January 22, 1906. At the beginning of his writing career, he primarily wrote pulp fiction and had numerous stories published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales including Spear and Fang, The Hyena, Wolfshead, Red Shadows, and The Shadow Kingdom. He created the character of Conan the Barbarian in the show more pages of Weird Tales. By 1936, almost all of his fiction writing was in the western genre and his first novel, A Gent from Bear Creek, was about to be published. He committed suicide on June 11, 1936 at the age of 30. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Die Königin der schwarzen Küste
- Original title
- Queen of the Black Coast
- Original publication date
- 1934
- People/Characters
- Conan; Bêlit
- Epigraph*
- So wie der Frühling neue Knospen bringt,
der Herbst die grünen Blätter niederrafft,
so sicher ist mein Herz noch unberührt,
für einen nur das Feuer meiner Leidenschaft.
Das Lied von Bêlit - First words*
- Hufe trommelten über die Straße zu den Kais.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Immer noch auf sein blutbeflecktes Schwert gestützt, blickte Conan ihr nach, bis das rote Glühen im fernen blauen Dunst erlosch, und die Morgensonne ihre goldenen Strahlen über das Meer sandte.
- Original language*
- Englisch
- Disambiguation notice*
- This work is for the novelette only. Do not combine with identically titled works containing other short stories as well.
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