Fantasy and SF Book Reading John Robinson

This is a reading of The Phoenix on the Sword by Robert E. Howard.

On youtube here.

Chapter 1

From Wikipedia

"The Phoenix on the Sword" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard, and first published in Weird Tales magazine, in December 1932. The tale, in which Howard created the character of Conan, was a rewrite of the unpublished Kull story, "By This Axe I Rule!", with long passages being identical. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and details Conan foiling a nefarious plot to unseat him as king of Aquilonia.  The first Conan story depicts him as a king—which means that when writing later stories placed earlier in Conan's life, as a thief, pirate, mercenary, etc., Howard (and his readers) already knew that the character was ultimately destined to become a king.

On Project Gutenberg

Collected in: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 3