Shadows in Zamboula, Robert E. Howard
Shadows in Zamboula, Robert E. Howard
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Shadows in Zamboula

Author: Robert E. Howard

Narrator: Alex Freeman

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2025

Synopsis

Step into the perilous streets of Zamboula in Robert E. Howard’s Shadows in Zamboula, a gripping sword-and-sorcery adventure featuring Conan the Cimmerian. In this pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, betrayal, and survival, Conan faces sinister tavern keepers, bloodthirsty cannibals, and a treacherous priest in a city where danger lurks at every corner. With fast-paced action, exotic settings, and Howard’s classic pulp style, this story delivers everything fans of dark fantasy and heroic adventure crave.

About Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) was an American pulp fiction writer who is best known as the creator of Conan, a character that has been featured in film, television, comics, and other media. Despite his suicide at the age of thirty, Howard wrote a huge number of stories in a variety of genres, including fantasy, westerns, horror, and even boxing stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thibault on November 18, 2022

A very strong start as Conan spends the night at a cheap and atmospheric tavern, and someone sneaks in while he’s trying to sleep. After that though, there is quite a bit of racism. This is a sign of the times this story was written in, but it does hurt the story since there’s so much of it. It’s a......more

Goodreads review by Baal Of on November 30, 2020

Fairly average offering with some cringeworthy racial stereotyping. There are much better Conan stories than this one.......more

Goodreads review by Ahmat on February 09, 2023

Damn, this is a really good story. One of the best so far, love the ending!......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on February 02, 2026

A short, dark, fantasy adventure, "Shadows in Zamboula" (1935) is the eleventh tale in the "Conan: Reaver, Mercenary, Conqueror, King, Cimmerian: The Collected Adventures of the World's Greatest Barbarian" collection published by Castenea. Conan is warned not to spend the night in Aram's tavern in Z......more

Goodreads review by Chris on May 16, 2016

Good stuff! So, although I'm mid-thirties, this was the first Conan story I've ever read. Not my fault, really, as I just didn't grow up with this stuff, and was never really interested in fantasy, as a genre. That being said, somehow I became interested in REH a while back, and now, I can't believe......more

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