Conan of Cimmeria Author:Robert Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter Then the moon rose, a splash of blood, ebony-barred, and the jungle awoke in horific bedlam to greet it. Roars and howls and yells set the black warriors to trembling; but all this noise, Conan noted, came from farther back in the jungle, as if the beasts no less than men shunned the black waters of Zarkheba...The cold light struck icy fire from... more » the jewels in Belit's clustered black locks as she sretched her lithe figure on the deck.« less