Monster of the Day #3546

Updated on July 11, 2024 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

Mmm, could use more skellingtons. Certainly calls to mind the awesome ending of Ator the Fighting Eagle.

Here’s the original art. Neat!

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    You can tell the artist was told "No, no, no, put a bra on her" and he did the minimum.

  • The Rev.

    That's a nice-looking giant tarantula. Maybe a touch of ogre-faced spider for the longer face, but, yeah, that's a dynamite piece of art.

    You just know that spider's thinking, "Oh, crap, is that Conan? Maybe if I back away slowly he won't come at me. Just back up enough until I find something to throw at him…"

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Go away. Get your own naked woman.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I have this book with that cover. Not a bad piece of work, but much as I like DeCamp he never really did 'get' Conan or Howard.

  • NathanShumate

    "That government is best which governs least" also works for underwear.

  • Gamera977

    I've never read any Conan outside of REH. Same with non-Fleming Bond. I've liked Cthulhu mythos fiction by Ramsey Campbell, Carl Jacobi, and Brian Lumley. But I bought an awful book published about ten years ago and it seems most of the modern writers seem to either sympathize with Cthulhu and company or treat the whole thing as a big whacky joke.

  • Ken_Begg

    You are wise unto your generation.

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes! Way too much lecturing about the Patriarchy.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yes. Too many modern writers of the Cthulhu Mythos make it obvious they think the whole thing is a joke. Or they have to remind us all that Lovecraft was an awful person in very hamfisted fashion.

  • Eric Hinkle

    DeCamp probably was on the side of the Patriarchy. XD He had enough pretty girls in his Conan stories, anyway.

    I meant more that he never seemed to sympathize much with Howard or his admittedly bleak worldview. Though DeCamp never seemed to think very much of most fantasy authors in the first place. I read a collection of his essays from Arkham House years ago where, among other things, he commented that Tolkien wasn't much of a fantasy writer because his Christian faith prevented him from inserting 'realistic' paganism into LoTR.