Red Nails | A Conan Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure of Lost City Horror, Ancient Vendetta, and Decadent Civilization

Rober E. Howard

ISBN 10: 8027380294 / ISBN 13: 9788027380299

Published by e-artnow, 2023

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Red Nails | A Conan Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure of Lost City Horror, Ancient Vendetta, and Decadent Civilization | Rober E. Howard | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | e-artnow | EAN 9788027380299 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, 143 00 PRAGUE, TSCHECHIEN, kristoferpaetau[at]gmail[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Nails | A Conan Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure of Lost City Horror, Ancient Vendetta, and Decadent Civilization
• Publisher: e-artnow
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8027380294
• ISBN 13: 9788027380299
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 5D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 5 millimeters depth
• Weight: 120 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Red Nails, the last of Robert E. Howard's completed Conan stories, plunges Conan and the pirate Valeria into Xuchotl, a sealed city consumed by hereditary vendetta, erotic menace, and ritualized violence. Its title refers to the tally of deaths in a private war between Tecuhltli and Xotalanc, rival remnants of a collapsed civilization. Howard's prose is muscular, chromatic, and relentlessly kinetic, yet the tale is also one of his darkest meditations on decadence, racial memory, and the fragility of culture within the 1930s Weird Tales tradition. Howard, a Texas writer steeped in frontier history, boxing, folklore, and the anxieties of Depression-era America, created Conan as a barbaric counterweight to overcivilized corruption. Red Nails reflects his lifelong fascination with doomed cities, blood feuds, and civilizations that destroy themselves from within. Written shortly before his death and published posthumously in 1936, it carries an unusually terminal intensity. This story is essential for readers of fantasy, pulp literature, and modern heroic fiction. It offers not only adventure and spectacle but a concentrated vision of sword-and-sorcery at its most savage, elegant, and psychologically charged.