The Cimmerian returns! In a couple of weeks, Titan Books are due to publish new Conan the Barbarian fiction! City of the Dead by John C. Hocking is an omnibus, collecting Conan and the Emerald Lotus (first published in 1995) and its highly-anticipated sequel, Conan and the Living Plague. The cover is by the always-excellent Jeffrey Alan Love.
To celebrate the release, the publisher has provided CR with an excerpt to share with our readers! First, check out the book’s synopsis:
The long-awaited follow-up to Conan and the Emerald Lotus brings John C. Hocking back to the sagas of the Cimmerian.
In Conan and the Emerald Lotus, the seeds of a deadly, addictive plant grant sorcerers immense power, but turn its users into inhuman killers.
In the exclusive, long-awaited sequel Conan and the Living Plague, a Shemite wizard seeks to create a serum to use as a lethal weapon. Instead he unleashes a hideous monster on the city of Dulcine. Hired to loot the city of its treasures, Conan and his fellows in the mercenary troop find themselves trapped in the depths of the city’s keep. To escape, they must defeat the creature, its plague-wracked undead followers, then face Lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension.
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