Appearing in "The Hell-Spawn of Kara-Shehr"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Bourtai (Death)
Antagonists:
- Bandits
- Allo Akbar (First appearance; dies)
- Kai Shaah (Death)
- Unnamed demon (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Erlik (Invoked)
- Thousand gods of Khitai (Invoked)
- Crom (Invoked)
- Unnamed wanderer (First appearance; dies)
- Serpent-God Set (Mentioned)
- Zukala (Mentioned)
- Mitra (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- Hyboria
- Turan
- Aghrapur (Mentioned)
- Kara-Shehr (First appearance)
- Khitai (Mentioned)
- Vilayet Sea (Mentioned)
- Stygia (Mentioned)
- Bab-El-Shaithan, Hyrkania (Mentioned)
- Acheron (Mentioned)
- Turan
- Atlantis (Mentioned)
- Hyboria
Items:
- Azure Eye of Kara-Shehr (First appearance)
Events:
- Hyborian Age
- Sinking of Atlantis (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "The Hell-Spawn of Kara-Shehr"
Conan and Bourtai head back to Aghrapur and travel through the desert southeast of the Vilayet sea. They encounter a man hassled by bandits. They ride to the man's rescue, but are too late; with the man's dying breath he tells them about the Azure Eye, a great jewel from the city of Kara-Shehr. A sandstorm consumes them, and when it disperses, they find the lost city. Conan is wary, but Bourtai wants the jewel, and they search through the ruins. In the castle's throne room they find a skeleton clutching a great blue gem, and, although Conan is sure the instant anyone touches the gem the skeleton will come to life (he's been in that situation before), Bourtai takes the prize, to no seeming skeletal resurrection. Conan makes him put it back, and the skeletal hand closes on the gem. At that moment, the bandits appear, having tracked Conan, and their leader, Kai Shaah, whom Conan met some months ago in the fortress of Bab-El-Shaithan (issue Vol 1 27), takes the gem. A mysterious creature of mists and fangs bursts from the wall and kills Kai Shaah, as Conan works on the bandits. In the melee, Bourtai also grabs the jewel and the creature turns on him, leaving only a skeleton. Conan, the only one remaining, turns and walks away.
Notes
- "The Hell-Spawn of Kara-Shehr" is freely adapted from "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" by Robert E. Howard, a Cthulhu Mythos story.[1]
- Synopsis by YardIHS.
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ "Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard" is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in 2001 by Chaosium Press.