‘Into Ultimate Night’
‘I Am the Woman Who Never Died’: Chapter 18 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
Reading from pages 212-18 of the DelRey Edition
The illustration of a naked, beguiling beauty beside a crypt piled with skulls is worthy of a comic panel.
As Conan descends into a great pile of a tomb disguised as a Stygian priest he is met by a pale, beautiful woman, as Howard liked them with hair piled like black foam. Akivisha is a legendary princess o…