Robert E. Howard’s The People of the Black Circle (1934) is widely considered one of the very best Conan novellas. Published in Weird Tales, it sends Conan into a central-Asian-flavoured mountain kingdom to rescue a kidnapped queen from the Black Seers of Yimsha — sorcerers of terrifying power. Howard’s prose is at its most exhilarating here: fast, physical, and atmospheric, with a scope that feels genuinely epic despite its novella length.
This free EPUB brings Howard’s sword-and-sorcery masterpiece to any e-reader in a freshly formatted edition. Whether you’re a Conan devotee or new to the Hyborian Age, The People of the Black Circle is the ideal entry point — pure pulp fantasy executed at the highest level by the genre’s defining creator.