The newcomer has witnessed all his friends betrayed and treacherously cut down to a man before escaping into the marshes. Suddenly, before Amurath can lay his hands on Olivia, a figure rises from the reeds. Olivia's pursuer and former master is a sadistic rogue named Shah Amurath. Olivia, having fled from her captivity in the city of Akif, is finally cornered near a marsh on the edge of the Vilayet Sea. It has more recently been published in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle ( Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003). The story was republished in the collections Conan the Barbarian ( Gnome Press, 1954) and Conan the Freebooter ( Lancer Books, 1968). It's set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan escaping to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature, and mysterious iron statues. Howard originally named his story " Iron Shadows in the Moon". Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in April 1934. " Shadows in the Moonlight" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E.
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