Conan: City of the Dead

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Two epics in one book as Conan the mercenary faces hideously transformed wizards and undead creatures in action-packed fantasy combining Robert E. Howards trademark sword and sorcery with concepts straight out of Lovecraftian horror.

Combines the classic Conan and the Emerald Lotus with the all-new, original Conan and the Living Plague.

TWO EPICS IN ONE BOOK!

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 citys keep. To escape, they must defeat the creature, its plague-wracked undead followers, then face Lovecraftian horrors beyond mortal comprehension.

Reviews

As pastiches go, its a cut above the rest, while remaining true to its pulp-fiction source material. -- Financial Times
"Sharp prose, tight plotting, smart dialogue, and driving action scenes, leveraged with fantastic world building and a twisted gift for the macabre and horror" -- Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Desert of Souls and Lord of a Shattered Land
"Chris Hocking captures the spirit of the original Robert E. Howard Conan tales in this moody, briskly paced, and thoroughly fun novel" -- S. Craig Zahler, director of Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete, author of A Congregation of Jackals
"Well-drawn characters, a head-long pace, and plenty of epic action scenes, while staying true to Howards original vision of the character and vividly capturing the Hyborian Age" -- James Reasoner, New York Times bestselling author of the Outlaw Ranger series
"His Conan shows why we fell in love with the character in the first place. John does REH and the entire genre proud" -- Douglas Draa, Editor of Weirdbook and Startling Stories
"These unparalleled Conan yarns are Hocking's well-crafted paeans to Robert E. Howard and the gripping tradition of sword and sorcery he created. In short: Hocking gets it" -- Dr. Jason Ray Carney, co-editor of The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies, author of Weird Tales of Modernity
"Conan and the Emerald Lotus is the finest Conan novel of the last 50 years. Its epic sequel Conan and the Living Plague, unpublished for over a decade, has become almost legendary... For Titan to publish both books under one cover is a gift to modern readers of all kindsand it's astonishing to discover that the sequel is even better" -- John ONeill, World Fantasy Award winning editor of Black Gate

Author Bio

Winner of the Harpers Pen Award for sword and sorcery fiction, John C. Hocking is the author of two novels starring Conan the Cimmerian. His short fiction has appeared in the Flashing Swords ezine, Black Gate, Skelos, Weirdbook and Tales from the Magicians Skull. Recently retired, he is currently working on a new novel. He lives in Michigan with his superhumanly tolerant wife, and can be found online at https://www.facebook.com/people/John-C-Hocking/100063350343450/.