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R.E. Howard’s: Queen of the Black Coast: Episode 1
By DaSOB | June 19, 2008
R.E. Howard’s: Queen Of The Black Coast:
Original story written by: Robert E. Howard Queen of the Black Coast, by Robert E. Howard, first published in Weird Tales, May 1934. “”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Black_Coast”" (novelette; WT 23 5, May 1934)
Adapted for audio by Bill Hollweg
Editor: Damaris Mannering (thanks D)
With special thanks to: Gina Hollweg, William A. Hollweg, REH, Roy Thomas, Mark Kalita, David Sobkowiak, Damaris Mannering, Paul Mannering, Steven Cohen, & Stevie Farnaby- and to all the Hooligans who believe that dreams do come true….
Know oh Prince that between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of recorded history, there was an Age undreamed of… When shining Kingdoms lay spread across the world- like blue mantles beneath the stars…
From the north came a CIMMERIAN - sword in hand. A thief, a reaver, a slayer, with GIGANTIC melancholies, and gigantic mirth - to tread the Jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandaled feet.
~The Nemedian Chronicles
Episode #1:
Into the seaport town Messantia, of the southern Hyborian kingdom of ARGUS, the road of Kings led the twenty four year old Cimmerian barbarian- CONAN. Having gotten crossways with the local justice system over a friend of his and the death of a guardsman, Conan took the law into his own hands with his mighty broadsword. The guardsmen were not pleased by his northern Cimmerian ideas of justice, so CONAN “borrowed” a horse from the courts and fled looking for a ship.
The mercenary ship- The ARGUS, just so happened to be putting out to sea as CONAN thundered down the pier having just stormed through the market- guardsmen hot on his trail.
Will the ship’s captain, TITO, allow the Cimmerian passage, or will the guardsmen fill his back full or arrows first? And what of the legendary She-Devil Pirate Queen of the Black Coast?
Join the adventure and find out- BY CROM!
STARRING in EPISODE 1:
CONAN:STEVIE FARNABY
NARRATOR: RALPH WALTERS
ARNAR Fur Peddler-ARGOS: DAVID MACIVER
AINYA prostitute-ARGOS: ROBIN CARISLE
MURGA Potter Peddler-ARGOS: MARK KALITA
SOLDIERS ARGOS: ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS McGILVRAY, TIM GILLICK
TITO Captain of the THE ARGUS: RALPH WALTERS
SAILOR #1 THE ARGUS: DUDGEON
SAILOR #2 THE ARGUS: JAMES LEEPER
PIER HAND #1: TIM GILLICK
PIER HAND #2: BILL HOLLWEG
ARGUS CREW: ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS, McGILVRAY, TIM GILLICK
NARRATOR for the SONG OF BELIT: GWEN JENSEN WODDARD
The MUSIC in tonight’s tale was provided with permission by:
CANTIGA
HOWL-O
STEVIE FARNABY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN-
SERAPHIC PANOPOLY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- INTRO -arranged by Bill Hollweg
Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.
Believe green buds awaken in the spring,
That autumn paints the leaves with somber fire;
Believe I held my heart inviolate
To lavish on one man my hot desire.
The Song of Belit part 1
by: R.E. HOWARD
Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion.
I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.
I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content. — CONAN
Topics: Queen of the Black Coast |
June 19th, 2008 at 4:41 am
[...] CONAN: Queen of the Black Coast Know oh Prince that between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of recorded history, there was an Age undreamed of… When shining Kingdoms lay spread across the world- like blue mantles beneath the stars… From the north came a CIMMERIAN - sword in hand. A thief, a reaver, a slayer, with GIGANTIC melancholies, and gigantic mirth - to tread the Jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandaled feet. ~The Nemedian Chronicles [...]
June 20th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Cant wait!Cant wait!Cant wait!
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
conan rules all hail the cymmerian!!!
Listened yesterday and a great adaptation with paricular mention going to chris mcgilvray,integral to the plot and a scene stealer if ever i heard one LOL!!!
July 18th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
You rock MAN! Shine the Gold Work!