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"Shadows in Zamboula" by Robert E. Howard is a Conan story first published in November 1935. When Conan spends the night in a cheap tavern in the desert city of Zamboula, he discovers streets filled with roaming cannibals and deadly political intrigue. The barbarian hero must navigate treacherous innkeepers, a hypnotic high priest, and a formidable strangler while becoming entangled in a dangerous scheme involving a satrap's mistress and her insane lover. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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SHADOWS IN ZAMBOULA

By Robert E. Howard

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was first published in Weird Tales
November 1935. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

1 A Drum Begins

'Peril hides in the house of Aram Baksh!'

The speaker's voice quivered with earnestness and his lean, black-nailed
fingers clawed at Conan's mightily muscled arm as he croaked his
warning. He was a wiry, sun-burnt man with a straggling black beard, and
his ragged garments proclaimed him a nomad. He looked smaller and meaner
than ever in contrast to the giant Cimmerian with his black brows, broad
chest, and powerful limbs. They stood in a corner of the Sword-Makers'
Bazar, and on either side of them flowed past the many-tongued,
many-colored stream of the Zamboula streets, which is exotic, hybrid,
flamboyant and clamorous.

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