The Phoenix on the Sword

Name: The Phoenix on the Sword
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert E. Howard
ISBN: 9798875131738

Author: Robert E. Howard

Series: Conan the Barbarian

Narrator: AI Voice Josh Greenwood

Unabridged: 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gates of Imagination

Published: 05/03/2024

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Conan, the king of Aquilonia, faces the greatest challenge of his life. Betrayed by his subjects, conspiring against him, he must face a deadly danger. Not only do people want to kill him, but also a powerful sorcerer Thoth-Amon, who has regained his lost ring of power. Will Conan be able to defend his throne and his life? Will he defeat his enemies with the help of a mysterious phoenix on his sword? Find out by reading the first story about the legendary barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard.

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache

The Phoenix on the Sword is a novella-length Robert E. Howard story starring King Conan. The very first Conan story, it tells of an attempted coup of the throne held by Conan. Ascalante is an outlaw that has subjugated the Stygian wizard Thoth-Amon and has enlisted the help of four co-conspirators t......more

Goodreads review by Ken

The Phoenix on the sword. Robert E Howard. Thoth Amon former wizard to King Cteson of Stygia, now powerless and a slave for Ascalante, former count of Thune, now leader to murderous conspirators. Gromel the giant commander of the the black legion. Dion a fat wealthy baron of Attalus. Volmana Dwarfis......more

Goodreads review by Baal Of

Many years ago when I was a kid living in Saudi Arabia, which would have put me in either 4th or 5th grade, I had a friend who lived in one of the other foreigner camps. His brother, who was a few years older than us, had a collection of Conan and Doc Savage paperbacks. The brother was a jerk, or at......more

Goodreads review by Bentley ★ Bookbastion.net

I bought on a whim, a collection of pulp fantasy short stories that really laid the ground work for the genre of fantasy that we know and love today. This story was included in the collection and was my first experience with Conan the Cimmerian, aka Conan the Barbarian, and I daresay it won't be my......more