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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vikingkingq" data-source="post: 9215081" data-attributes="member: 66208">I think there are more than the ones you cite. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"The Tower of the Elephant" is absolutely a low-level dungeon crawl where two thieves are looking to pillage an evil wizard's tower for loot and have to deal with guards and wandering monsters - there's even a magical MacGuffin, although Conan ultimately chooses to do the moral thing and free Yag-kosha rather than taking the Heart for himself. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Rogues in the House" is all about Conan getting hired to assassinate the evil Red Priest and having to make his way through the traps that the Red Priest has installed throughout his mansion, in order to get to the big fight with the boss monster and his reward from the aristocrat Murilo.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Shadows in the Moon" deals with a magical ruin where statues come to life in the moonlight (complete with a magic spell that the parrot remembers), which Conan has to deal with at the same time as a pirate band and a giant ape. He doesn't get any loot by the end of the story, but he does get the pirate ship and a band of hirelings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Jewels of Gwahlur" is likewise a dungeon crawl through an abandoned city where a mummified oracle that's secretly been replaced by an actress decides the fate of a nation, complete with a treasure chase for the eponymous jewels, secret doors, and yet more ape-monsters. Ironically Fritz Leiber hated this one. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">"Queen of the Black Coast" involves lots of ruins with lost treasure, hyena-men, winged demons, and a cursed magic necklace that brings about Bêlit's death. </li> </ul>And so on.</blockquote>

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