I love how magic in the conan stories is always so mysterious and threatening. Even when used to the Heroes advantage, there is still a threat of menace from Pellias.
@@TheCybrarian He also helped in Conan The Avenger. Giving him a magic ring and a clue to the location of his kidnapped wife. As much as Conan hates magic, he's smart enough to ask for help when he's clearly out of his depth.
I started painting at the age of seven, collecting comics, coins, stamps, records and antiques. At the age of 13 I sold my first oil, from a comic book. I'm now 74 years old and just put two and two together after all these years. Listening to these wonderful stories, I noticed the pictures here in you tube and that first sold oil was Conan from the cover of a comic book I purchased and had forgotten all these years.😊
I know H. P. Lovecraft is more famed for his horror-material than Robert. E. Howard, but when Howard veers into horror, I find that he is far better at creating uncanny moods. All these horrors in the pit are just THERE. We don't learn anything about them. There's no handy murals detailing their origins. We know as little about them as Conan. And all the unknowns about them, add greatly to their horror.
Howard, "Can I borrow a few of your monsters ?" H.P. "By all means just try not get too much blood on the carpet or go stark raving mad, it upsets the neighbors." Howard, "Righty Ho."
LOL Wouldn't be surprised if that was the dialogue between them since they were friends and contributed to the same magazine, Weird Tales. Lovecraft contributed a eulogy to Howard in the Weird Tales issue that had his final completed story, Red Nails.
"I give you death , Wizard !" Sounds like a curse word with all the life you give it . ... difficult to pick a favorite but this one is certainly toward the top of the list , I regularly revisit this yarn . 👍👍
One of my favourite Howard Conan stories.Evokes many great images. Hard to believe it was written by a young man in his twenties. Nicely read...thank you very much.
This is a great story, and you guys have done such a good job of putting this together, the whole production is terrific. I’ve recommended this channel to a few of my other Conan fanatics that I know. And I know once they check it out they’re going to be hooked as I am. I’ve read the stories are probably 510 times each, but the way you do them brings a whole new lie to them and I’m sitting here imagining it all over again in my head just like I did when I was a kid. Thanks again this is great.
I remember suggesting this! This Conan story is my favorite one! It has everything! I’m starting the video now! I’m SO EXCITED!!!💪🤨💪 And it was uploaded a few days before my birthday too! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Just discovered your channel, what a gem! You have the perfect voice for reading such epic tales, and your sounds editing really adds to the atmosphere. Thank you !
I've been listening to a few of these Conan tales on You Tube and if he has a problem with one thing it's lotuses. In this one he gets flattened by a purple lotus, in Conan the Liberator he gets flattened by a golden lotus and in The Queen of the Black Coast he gets flattened by a black lotus. I dread to think what's gonna happen to him in the upcoming novel Conan the Gardener.
yup, proper old usage as dictionary defined... - a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel. but since we're in britain, it also means something else... - a ball or roll of seasoned chopped liver, baked or fried. these are even in our local supermarket... www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626
This reading was done incredibly. I really enjoyed your effort to make this reading so enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for your uploading of this reading. Take care
Man this was awesome! There’s only one other recorded version I could find and it was good but not the best. This is amazing though! You have the voice! 10/10!!! If you don’t record professionally you should start!👍
To all those who see this comment, this is going to prove god exist for he is going to bless you today by using your ears to be a part of something truly special by being a part of this story, listen to it and see.
❤Amazing performance of The Scarlet Citadel! As always, you pay fantastic attention to giving all a distinct voice that fits their character. Is there any chance of a performance of the novel length similar story, The Hour of The Dragon? It would be a triumph!
We'd love to do hour of the dragon but it is novel length and would be 8 hours when complete so we might need to do a kickstarter or something for it to cover our time/costs.
I find it interesting how 11k soldiers for Aquilonia is a paltry force when the force Conan hastly assembled was about as large as the whole force of the Men of the West at the Battle of Pelennor, Rohirrim and Aragorn's reinforcements included. But then again in Hour of the Dragon Conan had over 40k troops with him at the opening battle with over 30k reinforcements coming from the rest of Aquilonia. It is a rich and populous kingdom Conan got for himself indeed.
haha, there was a conan animated series, but it was pretty dire, though some nice people have done thier own... ua-cam.com/video/BZjDcxdVAIg/v-deo.html
Dude 😎, what do you do? Do you read at libraries for a living? such narration is simply amazing 🤩 to hear. The Cyberian is the best, no one else comes close
Unfortunately not, this takes a fair amount of editing to get rid of all the live coughs/pauses/out-takes etc. not sure i could do this live (and some of the characters can be rough on the voice so lots of breaks need to be taken)
Many people consider the Conan stories childish. These people have not read Howard's stories. Conan stories are pure horror in the tradition of HP Lovecraft (a close friend of Howards) I say to them, your loss not mine.
It might originate from the fact there was a terrible Conan kids cartoon (not sure what it was about the 90s that they kept making kids cartoons from butchered adult material like robocop etc).
I must have ADD or something. I can never pay close enough attention while listening to audiobooks or streams without getting distracted. I usually have to skip back multiple times, even on one sentence, just to catch it. Part of it is because I can't imagine and meditate on what's being described, as fast as it's being described.. And part of it is that I get lost in thought about something else.
fair, we are making audio only versions for audible (ad-free), this one going through quality inspection atm, but 'Beyond the Black River' is already available. Complete and unabridged dramatised audio version available from us on Amazon (also available in ebook or paperback)... amzn.to/2UvkzdI Audible free trail available through us here... tinyurl.com/2xhay3u (Please use our affiliate links)
to quote scholars on Robert Howard and Conan's Hyborea - "there is reference that Conan moved the capital (as opposed to renaming it), but that may just have been someone's hypothesis. But at least we have a fixed location for Tarantia, according to REH's map. Howard really gives no explanation of this situation. So people have theorized many things. such as Conan renamed the city, Conan movied his capital or that the words have slightly different meaning. E.g. Tamar woud mean the 'old city' part on the hill and Tarantia would mean the larger city around it. The latter two options have precedents in the stories. On some maps they ended up making them two different cities. Possibly because they wanted more cities on the map, the geographic clues given in the stories allowed this option and there was nothing that directly contradicted this in the stories. "
it's odd, some people don't get any and some get lots, varying reports it's UA-cam that's decides, complain at them or get a yoututbe membership (no ads)
Shame you didn't adept Conan The Avenger book, which was Pelias' second appearance. (Loved the accents you used for the various characters.) An excellent example of 'cast your bread upon the water '. That wizard more than returned the favor of Conan rescuing him from The Scarlet Citadel. Both in that book and in Conan The Avenger.
@@TheCybrarian I didn’t have the internet when I learned about the founding of Islam, but I was in college. I don’t think he went. I’m not suggesting that he needed to go to college, but bf taking a Teligious Studies course, I don’t think I had a very good picture of it either. I still don’t know everything, but I have a better idea of the basics.
Now the basics are even taught in religious studies classes in most schools even from elementary, in the 30s it's prob required a specialist college for similar
@@TheCybrarian Bf that course, I probably thought of it more or less as “not Christianity”. I know that Judaism was of the Old Testament. I had some notion of Norse and Greek myths and even Hinduism, but Islam was pretty much a complete mystery. Tho I knew about the “Moslem” invasion of Spain and the Crusades. I did not know anything about what a Muslim actually believes.
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We are making this available on bandcamp to download and keep, ad-free.
thecybrarian.bandcamp.com/album/the-scarlet-citadel-by-robert-e-howard
The way you do Pellias's delightfully wicked laughter adds so much to the character.
This is ABSOLUTELY the best reading of a Conan story I have ever heard. Keep them coming
Conan being badass for 2 straight hours is better than all modern entertainment.
yep, the shite that comes out of Hollywood isn't worth a dam
We hungry for a glimpse of perfect hyper masculinity
A great story.
I thought I had read all the Conan stories but this one was new to me.
It's one of our favs
This story - save for a few minor editorial corrections- is in the form in which Howard wrote it and Weird Tales published it in the 1930s
I love how magic in the conan stories is always so mysterious and threatening. Even when used to the Heroes advantage, there is still a threat of menace from Pellias.
Completely. Pelias may have helped, but he's still an insane necromancer, it's unlikely he'd be trusted to look after young children ;P
@@TheCybrarian He also helped in Conan The Avenger. Giving him a magic ring and a clue to the location of his kidnapped wife.
As much as Conan hates magic, he's smart enough to ask for help when he's clearly out of his depth.
It’s also feels very natural. The way magic would be in real life
I started painting at the age of seven, collecting comics, coins, stamps, records and antiques. At the age of 13 I sold my first oil, from a comic book. I'm now 74 years old and just put two and two together after all these years. Listening to these wonderful stories, I noticed the pictures here in you tube and that first sold oil was Conan from the cover of a comic book I purchased and had forgotten all these years.😊
@@adorable6385wow, that is so cool, arecyou still painting after all those years?
I know H. P. Lovecraft is more famed for his horror-material than Robert. E. Howard, but when Howard veers into horror, I find that he is far better at creating uncanny moods.
All these horrors in the pit are just THERE. We don't learn anything about them. There's no handy murals detailing their origins. We know as little about them as Conan. And all the unknowns about them, add greatly to their horror.
Howard, "Can I borrow a few of your monsters ?"
H.P. "By all means just try not get too much blood on the carpet or go stark raving mad, it upsets the neighbors."
Howard, "Righty Ho."
LOL Wouldn't be surprised if that was the dialogue between them since they were friends and contributed to the same magazine, Weird Tales.
Lovecraft contributed a eulogy to Howard in the Weird Tales issue that had his final completed story, Red Nails.
Lovecraft, not even close to Howard
Two entirely different personalities.
Thank you so much. Sitting in rehab listen to these makes my days better.
Glas you're enjoying, hope the rehab works out, stay strong
"I give you death , Wizard !" Sounds like a curse word with all the life you give it . ... difficult to pick a favorite but this one is certainly toward the top of the list , I regularly revisit this yarn . 👍👍
thank u
well, i think 'wizard' is a kinda slur in conans eyes, they're always up to something nefarious
One of my favourite Howard Conan stories.Evokes many great images. Hard to believe it was written by a young man in his twenties. Nicely read...thank you very much.
I always was drawn to Pelias, the closest I recall Conan having a Sorcerer as an ally and still has darker leanings.
oh yes, very dark, and probably a bit insane
The very best telling of this wonderful sword and sorcery tale.
This is a great story, and you guys have done such a good job of putting this together, the whole production is terrific. I’ve recommended this channel to a few of my other Conan fanatics that I know. And I know once they check it out they’re going to be hooked as I am. I’ve read the stories are probably 510 times each, but the way you do them brings a whole new lie to them and I’m sitting here imagining it all over again in my head just like I did when I was a kid. Thanks again this is great.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for sharing it around.
Excellent rendition of this little known Conan classic! Thanks for posting...Enjoyed hearing it read aloud.... Highly imaginative...
By Crom, ANOTHER!
Best audio version that I have found. Thanks!
I remember suggesting this! This Conan story is my favorite one! It has everything! I’m starting the video now! I’m SO EXCITED!!!💪🤨💪 And it was uploaded a few days before my birthday too! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Happy bday n great suggestion.
Listening to this for the first time, makes me realize what an injustice Hollywood has done to Conan.
yeah, there's so much more to it that's never been shown
I like your style. YT throwing commercials in every 3-5 min makes me sad.
adblock extensions brother
Just discovered your channel, what a gem! You have the perfect voice for reading such epic tales, and your sounds editing really adds to the atmosphere. Thank you !
Welcome aboard!
Just found this while on a road trip, an excellent rendition of an excellent story!
Glad you enjoyed it!
We have many more.
Outstanding job! I every much enjoy your readings. Blessings!
Such a phenomenal and immersive reading!
These are awesome, thanks for making these audio versions!
I've been listening to a few of these Conan tales on You Tube and if he has a problem with one thing it's lotuses. In this one he gets flattened by a purple lotus, in Conan the Liberator he gets flattened by a golden lotus and in The Queen of the Black Coast he gets flattened by a black lotus. I dread to think what's gonna happen to him in the upcoming novel Conan the Gardener.
Conan with a gas-mask on a riding mower! haha
I can see Conan doing some vigorous pruning with sword and axe.
Excellent narration and sound effects. Thank you.
Great story, coupled with great voice overs a winning combination indeed. Thank you and please keep them coming.
Thank you! Will do!
Full Slithering Shadow coming soon.
1:11:27 I have never heard that word used that way before, excellent work. Chicago Illinois loves this content ❤
yup, proper old usage as dictionary defined...
- a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel.
but since we're in britain, it also means something else...
- a ball or roll of seasoned chopped liver, baked or fried.
these are even in our local supermarket...
www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/282049626
The voices are soo good.
It's a damn shame less than a 100 likes. Should have a million.
This one covers all the bases,a home run for certain!
This reading was done incredibly. I really enjoyed your effort to make this reading so enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for your uploading of this reading. Take care
I’m a big fan of the old swords and sorcery tales and the excellent voice acting here really added to the telling.
Man this was awesome! There’s only one other recorded version I could find and it was good but not the best. This is amazing though! You have the voice! 10/10!!! If you don’t record professionally you should start!👍
To all those who see this comment, this is going to prove god exist for he is going to bless you today by using your ears to be a part of something truly special by being a part of this story, listen to it and see.
Supercool read. Thanks!
WOW. Both to the reading and writing...
That was simply outstanding👏🤓
❤Amazing performance of The Scarlet Citadel! As always, you pay fantastic attention to giving all a distinct voice that fits their character. Is there any chance of a performance of the novel length similar story, The Hour of The Dragon? It would be a triumph!
We'd love to do hour of the dragon but it is novel length and would be 8 hours when complete so we might need to do a kickstarter or something for it to cover our time/costs.
This was fantastic 💪
one of our favs too
I find it interesting how 11k soldiers for Aquilonia is a paltry force when the force Conan hastly assembled was about as large as the whole force of the Men of the West at the Battle of Pelennor, Rohirrim and Aragorn's reinforcements included.
But then again in Hour of the Dragon Conan had over 40k troops with him at the opening battle with over 30k reinforcements coming from the rest of Aquilonia. It is a rich and populous kingdom Conan got for himself indeed.
The Hour of the Dragon has the same outlines with The Scarlet Citadel.It's more of an extended rework of the latter.
Eek! I could visualize those monsters so clearly! Great job!❤
Can’t wait for the next one.
Fantastic! Thank you for the time and efforts to put it together! Great job!
Great job 😊
Idk why but your voice acting with this made me picture it with Samurai Jack type animation
haha, there was a conan animated series, but it was pretty dire, though some nice people have done thier own...
ua-cam.com/video/BZjDcxdVAIg/v-deo.html
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@@TheCybrarian wow! There's so much that goes under my radar!
The same guy who animated Samurai Jack made a show called Primal, which is BASICALLY Just Conan with a pet dinosaur. It's incredible
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I absolutely need to catch up on it.
I love ❤️ adore your voice 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Epic narration. So good.
What an experience! Wonderfully done :)
One of the best stories
Love it! Such a pleasure to find this! Thank you!
Awesome reading mate. Playing conan exiles while listening to your stories. Please make more.
Thanks, will do!
Try our Conan playlist -
ua-cam.com/play/PLlFcav_ti8rkUvq2sqnHxKQ6AmeSN-2QK.html
thank you, for these uploads: they are appreciated.
Dude 😎, what do you do? Do you read at libraries for a living? such narration is simply amazing 🤩 to hear. The Cyberian is the best, no one else comes close
Unfortunately not, this takes a fair amount of editing to get rid of all the live coughs/pauses/out-takes etc. not sure i could do this live (and some of the characters can be rough on the voice so lots of breaks need to be taken)
I like the laugher of the mad eunuch. The other characterizations are good as well.
Excellent
Many people consider the Conan stories childish. These people have not read Howard's stories. Conan stories are pure horror in the tradition of HP Lovecraft (a close friend of Howards) I say to them, your loss not mine.
It might originate from the fact there was a terrible Conan kids cartoon (not sure what it was about the 90s that they kept making kids cartoons from butchered adult material like robocop etc).
Impressive work with the audio :)
Another Epic tale of times past.n
Thanks for posting these :)
Glad you like them!
Great job!
I must have ADD or something. I can never pay close enough attention while listening to audiobooks or streams without getting distracted.
I usually have to skip back multiple times, even on one sentence, just to catch it. Part of it is because I can't imagine and meditate on what's being described, as fast as it's being described.. And part of it is that I get lost in thought about something else.
yeah, been there before, try listening while performing simple tasks like basic cardio excersise or housework, it can sometimes help
If anybody thinks Crom doesn't favour Conan this story puts that to rest.
I'm a huge fan of these! Is there any way you can narrate some of Howard's "El Borak" tales?
That's a possibility in the future.
Shu Keli sounds like scooby doo
everyone has wanted to knife scrappy do at some point
Bookmark 1:03:00
Your choice of pictures makes me miss Venice. 🧿🧿
not been but looks amazing
I'll be there......! (Mj vc)
I love this story. Excuse me but I have subsubscribe.
thank you, welcome aboard
Crom ! What an amazing adventure.
Wow. What a bedtime story. Sounds like Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 🙏👹
Thank you, we did try for a Middle-Eastern to Eastern flavour.
I hate the commercials but I understand you got to make money but now I can’t listen before I sleep now. 😞
We're releasing these on Audible soon with no ads.
(or I think there's no ads if you get a UA-cam subscription)
Dame Otro !
Plenty more to come.
Ads kill your fine work. I understand the need, but it sucks out the immersion and destroys the continuity. Good stuff though!
fair, we are making audio only versions for audible (ad-free), this one going through quality inspection atm, but 'Beyond the Black River' is already available.
Complete and unabridged dramatised audio version available from us on Amazon (also available in ebook or paperback)... amzn.to/2UvkzdI
Audible free trail available through us here... tinyurl.com/2xhay3u
(Please use our affiliate links)
Tarantia is the capital of Aquilonia, not Tamar.
to quote scholars on Robert Howard and Conan's Hyborea -
"there is reference that Conan moved the capital (as opposed to renaming it), but that may just have been someone's hypothesis. But at least we have a fixed location for Tarantia, according to REH's map.
Howard really gives no explanation of this situation. So people have theorized many things. such as Conan renamed the city, Conan movied his capital or that the words have slightly different meaning. E.g. Tamar woud mean the 'old city' part on the hill and Tarantia would mean the larger city around it. The latter two options have precedents in the stories. On some maps they ended up making them two different cities. Possibly because they wanted more cities on the map, the geographic clues given in the stories allowed this option and there was nothing that directly contradicted this in the stories. "
Friday
Warning: The following may contain; violence. References to sex. and language that may offend.
Me: G O O D
That’s not an evil wizard that’s my wife
it's amazing how many evil wizards are actually wives,
(the reverse is also true)
haha
Hard to listen to with so many commercials
it's odd, some people don't get any and some get lots, varying reports
it's UA-cam that's decides, complain at them or get a yoututbe membership (no ads)
I'd rather pay you then give a dime to youtube
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO Thank you. We will be releasing these as in audio only form, complete ad-free, through audible in the near future.
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What’s next?
more Conan, more Solomon Kane, more Bran Mak Morn...n maybe some cthulhu soon
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Shame you didn't adept Conan The Avenger book, which was Pelias' second appearance. (Loved the accents you used for the various characters.)
An excellent example of 'cast your bread upon the water '. That wizard more than returned the favor of Conan rescuing him from The Scarlet Citadel. Both in that book and in Conan The Avenger.
Unfortunately we can't adapt Conan the avenger as it's not public domain, we'd need license permission, which we'll look into in the future.
Give it a try. I have seen Conan audio books novels here on UA-cam done by other channels so it is possible.
Mosques? 10000 years ago?
indeed, but it's not like REH had the internet to check with, lol
@@TheCybrarian I didn’t have the internet when I learned about the founding of Islam, but I was in college. I don’t think he went. I’m not suggesting that he needed to go to college, but bf taking a Teligious Studies course, I don’t think I had a very good picture of it either. I still don’t know everything, but I have a better idea of the basics.
Now the basics are even taught in religious studies classes in most schools even from elementary, in the 30s it's prob required a specialist college for similar
@@TheCybrarian Bf that course, I probably thought of it more or less as “not Christianity”. I know that Judaism was of the Old Testament. I had some notion of Norse and Greek myths and even Hinduism, but Islam was pretty much a complete mystery. Tho I knew about the “Moslem” invasion of Spain and the Crusades. I did not know anything about what a Muslim actually believes.
Exactly, n the further back u go the more education is secular
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Such torrid prose.
Too many adverts
we are currently uploading our audios on bandcamp to listen to ad-free
we'll announce when they are available
Nigh unlistenable with all the ads
we are working on releasing just the audio of our stories on bandcamp (and prob audible/itunes) ad free, we'll kep our subs posted
Would be an awesome movie