The People of the Black Circle

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Rovert E. Howard. The People of the Black Circle

The People of the Black Circle

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I

1. Death Strikes a King

2. A Barbarian from the Hills

3. Khemsa Uses Magic

4. An Encounter in the Pass

5. The Black Stallion

PART II

The Story Thus Far

6. The Mountain of the Black Seers

7. On to Yimsha

8. Yasmina Knows Stark Terror

PART III

The Story Thus Far

9. The Castle of the Wizards

10. Yasmina and Conan

THE END

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Rovert E. Howard

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Sobbing wildly, Yasmina plucked a jeweled dagger from her girdle and plunged it to the hilt in his breast. He stiffened and then went limp, a grim smile curving his dead lips. Yasmina hurled herself face-down on the rush-covered floor, beating the reeds with her clenched hands. Outside, the gongs and conchs brayed and thundered and the priests gashed themselves with copper knives.

The governor had not been long gone from her when Yasmina suddenly remembered something else which she had wished to discuss with him, but had forgotten until that moment. It concerned the past actions of one Kerim Shah, a nobleman from Iranistan, who had dwelt for a while in Peshkhauri before coming on to the court at Ayodhya. A vague suspicion concerning the man had been stirred by a glimpse of him in Peshkhauri that night. She wondered if he had followed her from Ayodhya. Being a truly remarkable Devi, she did not summon the governor to her again, but hurried out into the corridor alone, and hastened toward his chamber.

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