![]() ![]() In this incarnation, O’Donnel was Aryara, a member of the tribe known as the Sword People. While he’s unconscious, he relives a past life. It’s balanced in an odd way.Ī couple of the men try it out, swinging it. The men begin discussing just how factual the legends about the Picts are, and Conrad shows them a flint mallet he thinks might be from that period. The reference is to Bran Mak Morn, something that is explicitly stated in the story. Then one of the ones mentioned is the cult of Bran. ![]() In this one a discussion arises about cults, and several names from the Mythos are mentioned, icluding Cthulhu. To his credit Howard doesn’t give the first name of all of these characters in every story and often only refers to them by their surnames. Both Conrad and Kirowan appear in other Howard tales, “ Dig Me No Grave” being one. He’s at a get together with several other men in the home of John Conrad, among them Professor John Kirowan. ![]() The story is narrated by one John O’Donnel. It’s an interesting little story in that it ties two of Howard’s series characters in with H. “The Children of the Night” was first published in Weird Tales in the April-May issue of 1931. (The subject of my next BAF post for Black Gate.) Just from the title, I could have sworn I’d read it before, but I think I would have remembered this one. I read this story for the first time recently in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy collection The Spawn of Cthulhu. ![]()
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