THE THING IN THE CRYPT

The gratest hero of Hyperborian times was not a Hyborian but a barbarian, Conan the Cimmerian, abot whose name whole cycles of legend revolve. From the elder civilizations of Hyborian and Atlantean times, only a fewfragmentary, half-legendary narratives survive. One of these, The Nemedian Chronicles, gives most of what is known about the career of Conan. The section concerning Conan begins:

   Know, O Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of,When shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars-Nemedia Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperbora, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry