Short story by Lyon Sprague de Camp
"The Witch of the Mists" Author L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter Country United States Language English Series Conan the Barbarian Genre(s) Fantasy Published in Conan of Aquilonia Publication type Collection Publisher Ace Books Media type Print (Paperback ) Publication date 1977
"The Witch of the Mists " is a fantasy short story by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter , featuring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard . It was first published in the August 1972 issue of the magazine Fantastic Ace Books in the paperback collection Conan of Aquilonia [1] [2] British edition was published by Sphere Books in October 1978.[2]
Plot [ ] A decade and a half after the events of Conan the Conqueror
Conan travels north to Hyperborea for the first time since escaping captivity there during his own youth in "The Thing in the Crypt ". To reach the citadel of Pohiola, where his son is being held, Conan fights his way through desolate country, battling flesh-eating swamp people and braving near-starvation. He crosses the Hyperborean border, marked with a gigantic rune-inscribed skull, and ultimately enters the citadel.
Confronting Louhi, he is able to free his son, discovering in the process that his arch-enemy, the Stygian sorcerer Thoth-Amon , is behind the plot.
Notes [ ]
^ Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography . San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 266. ^ a b The Witch of the Mists Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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