Conan: City of the Dead

Conan and the Emerald Lotus (4.0) Conan battles evil wizards hooked on drugs derived from a monstrous plant that is like something out of Little Shop of Horrors. So brilliant it deserves a haiku: Conan's blade gleams bright, Wizards' dark hearts crave strange highs - Magic, steel collide. Conan and the L......more

Someone needs to pin a medal on Hocking’s chest. To have to wait this long to get a superior novel published is criminal. This volume contains 2 Conan novels. The first, Conan and the Emerald Lotus, was one of the better Tor titles. I remember buying this book when it first came out and thought it w......more

CONAN City of the Dead, by John C. Hocking (2024, Titan Books. 507p) It’s June of 2024, and Titan Books has just delivered John C. Hocking’s City of the Dead which contains both Conan and the Emerald Lotus (1995, TOR)and its follow-up Conan and the Living Plague—a book lost in the limbo of publ......more

John C. Hocking’s new book, “Conan: City of the Dead,” published by Titan Books includes two novels, and I’ll review each separately. The first novel in the book is “Conan and the Emerald Lotus.” The second is the long-awaited “Conan and the Living Plague.” Part I: Conan and the Emerald Lotus I read “......more

I was aware of but had never read Conan and the Emerald Lotus, so this volume was two mugs filled to the brim with Hocking's finest, for me. He captures the character of Conan the Cimmerian - a much more complex individual than stereotypes give Howard credit for - and the feel of the Hyborian Age, w......more