‘His Awful Guide’

In The Hall of the Dead: Chapter 19 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon

Reading from pages 219-26 of the DelRey edition

An illustration of a cryptic procession through the massive catacombs begins the chapter. 

I wished to title this impressions as ‘On a river of Blood’ but the power of one of Howards closing lines of the chapter said otherwise.

The penultimate struggle of the novel takes place in the terrifying innards of the…