PRESENTS- the full cast audio dramatization of:

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 (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 #6:

The Cimmerian Conan, having fallen prey to the noxious and psychedelic odors of the Black Lotus in the jungles of Kush… Has visions… Will Conan’s visions aid or send him to his doom?

And what of N’yaga, his beloved Belit, and his warriors in the jungle, and the great winged beast spied from the foredeack of the Tigress? What of them???

Join the adventure and find out- By CROM!

STARRING in EPISODE 5:
CONAN - STEVIE FARNABY
NARRATOR - RALPH WALTERS

Starring as the “ANCIENTS” in CONAN’s Black Lotus Visions

STEVEN COHEN
PAUL MANNERING
JACK WARD of The Sonic Society!
SHANNON HILCHE of The Sonic Society!
GWEN JENSEN WODDARD of Imagination Lane Audio!
ALEXA CHIPMAN of Imagination Lane Audio!
JAMES LEEPER
KIM GIANOPOULOS

The MUSIC in tonight’s tale was provided with permission by:

-Erdenstern
-Cantiga
-STEVIE FARNABY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- OUTRO
-SERAPHIC PANOPOLY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- INTRO arranged by Bill Hollweg

Adapted for Audio, Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.

PRESENTS- the full cast audio dramatization of:

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

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 #5:

Belit, her first mate and lover- the Cimmerian Conan, N’Yaga the shaman, and the rest of the crew of the Pirate Galleon The Tigress, having traversed deep into the southern Jungle realms of Kush upon the poisoness waters of the river Zarkheba, have come to the ruins of an ancient city… A lost city of the Old Ones, containing a crumbling blood stained stone altar… Will they find the treasure of Belit’s legend of vast weath buried in this lost realm of the ancients- or doom?

Join the adventure and find out- By CROM!

STARRING in EPISODE 5:
CONAN - STEVIE FARNABY
NARRATOR - RALPH WALTERS
BELIT - CHARLENE HARRIS
N’YAGA - MARK KALITA
BELIT’s CREW - ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS McGILVRAY, PAUL MANNERING, STEVEN COHEN, COLIN SNOW
NARRATOR for the SONG OF BELIT - GWEN JENSEN WODDARD

The MUSIC in tonight’s tale was provided with permission by:
HOWL-O
STEVIE FARNABY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- OUTRO
SERAPHIC PANOPOLY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- INTRO

Adapted for Audio, Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.
Adapted for Audio, Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.

PRESENTS- the full cast audio dramatization of:

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

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 #4:

The Cimmerian Conan, sole survivor of the merchant ship- the Argus- stands surrounded, and has a decision to make after battling the Savage Buccanner Coursairs of Belit, Queen of the Black Coast, to a bloody standstill…

He can either join Belit’s crew- or die by their Kushite spears… Join the adventure and find out- By CROM!

STARRING in EPISODE 4:
CONAN - STEVIE FARNABY
NARRATOR - RALPH WALTERS
BELIT (Queen of the Black Coast): - CHARLENE HARRIS
N’YAGA - MARK KALITA
BELIT’s CREW: - ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS McGILVRAY, PAUL MANNERING, STEVEN COHEN, COLIN SNOW
NARRATOR for the SONG OF BELIT: - GWEN JENSEN WODDARD
The MUSIC in tonight’s tale was provided with permission by:

-HOWL-O
-STEVIE FARNABY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- OUTRO
-SERAPHIC PANOPOLY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- INTRO

Adapted for Audio, Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.

In that dead citadel of crumbling stone.
Her eyes were snared by that unholy sheen,
And curious madness took me by the throat,
As of a rival lover thrust between.

The Song of Belit 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

PRESENTS- the full cast audio dramatization of:

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

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 #3:

Having survived the Sirens of Set in the dark waters of Stigia, CONAN, TITO and the crew of the ARGUS head still farther south into the waters of KUSH… And finally come into bloody conflict with the Queen of the Black Coast and her savage crew of corsairs.

Join the adventure and find out- BY CROM!

STARRING in EPISODE 3:
CONAN - STEVIE FARNABY
NARRATOR - RALPH WALTERS
TITO (Captain of the THE ARGUS): - RALPH WALTERS
ARGUS CREW: - ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS McGILVRAY, TIM GILLICK, JAMES LEEPER
SAILOR #1 (THE ARGUS) - ROY DUDGEON
SAILOR #2 (THE ARGUS) - BILL HOLLWEG
BELIT (Queen of the Black Coast): - CHARLENE HARRIS
BELIT’s CREW: - ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS McGILVRAY, PAUL MANNERING, STEVEN COHEN, COLIN SNOW
NARRATOR for the SONG OF BELIT: - GWEN JENSEN WODDARD
The MUSIC in tonight’s tale was provided with permission by:

-HOWL-O
-STEVIE FARNABY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- OUTRO
-SERAPHIC PANOPOLY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- INTRO

Adapted for Audio, Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.

In that dead citadel of crumbling stone.
Her eyes were snared by that unholy sheen,
And curious madness took me by the throat,
As of a rival lover thrust between.

The Song of Belit 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

Original story written by: Robert E. Howard taken from * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook. Queen of the Black Coast, by Robert E. Howard, first published in Weird Tales, May 1934 (novelette; WT 23 5, May 1934)

Adapted for audio by Bill Hollweg

Editor: Damaris Mannering

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 #2:

CONAN, TITO and the crew of the ARGUS head south through the waters of SHEM and onto the dark, ominous waters of STYGIA… What foul portents does this dark land hold for CONAN?

Join the adventure and find out- BY CROM!

STARRING in EPISODE 2:
CONAN - STEVIE FARNABY
NARRATOR - RALPH WALTERS
TITO (Captain of the THE ARGUS): - RALPH WALTERS
ARGUS CREW: - ROY DUDGEON, BILL HOLLWEG, CHRIS McGILVRAY, TIM GILLICK
SAILOR #1 (THE ARGUS) - ROY DUDGEON
SAILOR #2 (THE ARGUS) - BILL HOLLWEG
SIRENS of SET: - ROBIN CARLISLE, KIM GIANOPOULOS, GWEN JENSEN WODDARD, LAURA FRECHETTE, APRIL SADOWSKI, CHARLENE HARRIS
NARRATOR for the SONG OF BELIT: - GWEN JENSEN WODDARD

The MUSIC in tonight’s tale was provided with permission by:

CANTIGA
HOWL-O
DEVON ANDSERSON
STEVIE FARNABY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- OUTRO
SERAPHIC PANOPOLY- ORIGINAL THEME for CONAN- INTRO (arranged by Bill Hollweg)

Adapted for Audio, Directed and Post Produced by Bill Hollweg.

In that dead citadel of crumbling stone.
Her eyes were snared by that unholy sheen,
And curious madness took me by the throat,
As of a rival lover thrust between.

The Song of Belit part 2
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

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

Musical contributions by:
Rob Highfill
Devin Anderson at the podsafe audio website.
Cantiga
and seraphic panopoly
Stevie Farnaby

To whet the cimmerian appetites awaiting our Full Cast Audio Drama Production of the Robert E. Howard classic CONAN tale “Queen of the Black Coast”, we are releasing REH’s own history of that barbaric age of steel and sorcery! The Hyborian Age in Audio Book format, depicting the cataclysmic time that passed before CONAN wielded his mighty sword and trod under his sandaled feet!

(Nothing in this article is to be considered as an attempt to advance any theory in opposition to accepted history. It is simply a fictional background for a series of fiction-stories. When I began writing the Conan stories a few years ago, I prepared this ‘history’ of his age and the peoples of that age, in order to lend him and his sagas a greater aspect of realness. And I found that by adhering to the ‘facts’ and spirit of that history, in writing the stories, it was easier to visualize (and therefore to present) him as a real flesh-and-blood character rather than a ready-made product. In writing about him and his adventures in the various kingdoms of his Age, I have never violated the ‘facts’ or spirit of the ‘history’ here set down, but have followed the lines of that history as closely as the writer of actual historical-fiction follows the lines of actual history. I have used this ‘history’ as a guide in all the stories in this series that I have written.)

The Hyborian Age
by Robert E. Howard

Narrated and Mixed by Bill Hollweg
with appearances by Ralph Walters and Stevie Farnaby

Music by:
Cantiga http://www.cantigamusic.com/
and Seraphic Panopoly http://podsafeaudio.com/

Unabridged version found at:

Title: The Hyborian Age
Author: Robert E. Howard
* A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook *
eBook No.: 0603571.txt
Language: English
Date first posted: July 2006
Date most recently updated: July 2006

This eBook was produced by: Richard Scott

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The audio book version of Robert E. Howard’s Incredible tale of Conan the Barbarian
In the seacoast kingdom of Argos, after a brush with the Hyborian legal system, Conan hops aboard a southward bound ship. Off the coasts of Kush the ship is boarded by black corsairs under the Shemitish she-devil, Bêlit. Conan joins her

Red Nails, a tale featuring the legendary Conan the Barbarian, was written by Robert E. Howard and began its written serialization in the July 1936 issue of Weird Tales. This thrilling audio novella begins with pirate-adventuress Valeria of the Red Brotherhood on the run after slaying a notable brigand. She is followed by Conan and the two soon fight their way to a great, walled city inhabited by two warring peoples.

The adventure seekers soon find themselves embroiled in the feud and mayhem ensues as the city’s rulers make unholy plans for the mighty Cimmerian and his feisty female companion. Listen now as an ancient evil returns from oblivion and a wicked sorceress seeks to gain immortality at the cost of our Hyborian heroes