Urban fantasy

In the last of the Conan stories to be published, there is no end to the action and adventure.

Those clever ones are the beggars to make a muddle.

A crown should not be worn upon the head.

I have poured out dark wine to them, I have offered them fat, indeed, I have often offered them savoury things.

Men laugh at the gods; they often laugh at the gods.

And though I had seen him go forth with his terrific spear, and mighty elephant-hunter though he was, yet his was a fearful quest for I knew that it was none other than to avenge Perdondaris by slaying that monster with the single tusk who had overthrown it suddenly in a day.

And so I came to be directed to the shop of a dreamer who lives not far from the Embankment in the City.

Beyond the fields we know, in the Lands of Dream, lies the Valley of the Yann where the mighty river of that name, rising in the Hills of Hap, idleing its way by massive dream-evoking amethyst cliffs, orchid-laden forests, and ancient mysterious cities, comes to the Gates of Yann and passes to the sea.

"e;They offer you three jokes,"e; said the stranger, "e;which shall make all who hear them simply die of laughter.

Sylvia, Queen of the Woods, in her woodland palace, held court, and made a mockery of her suitors.

And the diviner rose up, stroking his grey beard, and spake guardedly-"e;There are certain events,"e; he said, "e;upon the ways of Fate that are veiled even from a diviner's eyes, and many more are clear to us that were better veiled from all; much I know that is better unforetold, and some things that I may not foretell on pain of centuries of punishment.

So I came down through the wood on the bank of Yann and found, as had been prophesied, the ship Bird of the River about to loose her cable.

Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea.

The Wild Things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet high.

Thus passed away in the hour of her iniquities before Annolith, in the two thousand and thirty-second year of her being, in the six thousand and fiftieth year of the building of the World, Babbulkund, City of Marvel, sometime called by those that hated her City of the Dog, but hourly mourned in Araby and Ind and wide through jungle and desert; leaving no memorial in stone to show that she had been, but remembered with an abiding love, in spite of the anger of God, by all that knew her beauty, whereof still they sing.

And the longing of Rold in his dreams to see the sword caused him to walk still sleeping from his mother's house to the hall wherein were the trophies of the heroes.

Then the King spake dolefully in the Hall of Kings, and said: "e;May I not find at last the gods, and must it be that I may not look in Their faces at the last to see whether They be kindly?

Later the King, going abroad through his new kingdom, came on the Temple of the gods of Old.

The men of Yarnith hold that nothing began until Yarni Zai uplifted his hand.

There was also another prophet and his name was Shaun, who had such reverence for the gods of Old that he became able to discern their forms by starlight as they strode, unseen by others, among men.

There in Pegana lay the gods asleep, and in a corner lay the Power of the gods alone upon the floor, a thing wrought of black rock and four words graven upon it, whereof I might not give thee any clue, if even I should find it-four words of which none knoweth.

It was dark all over the world and even in Pegana, where dwell the gods, it was dark when the child Inzana, the Dawn, first found her golden ball.

This collection helped make Lord Dunsany a fantasy legend.

After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of.

Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century.

Conan has claimed the throne of Aquilonia, but now he must defend it from rival armies and sorcery most vile.

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