"The Tower of the Elephant"is just about my all time most favorite Conan tale from the esteemed Robert E. Howard. His fingers must have white hot when he wrote this story. I was always struck by the profound sense of empathy demonstrated by the young barbarian for this strange, otherworldly being, revealing to us a capacity of thought and feeling that one would not normally associate with a barbarian. WOW! As for this particular old-time radio style dramatization, you guys did a superb job.
I tell you this, if I stumbled upon this on the radio on a late night, my hand would pause on the dial(Pre-digital age-Remember those weird oscillating sounds!) and I would settle down and listen, sounds like the radio 4...
I've been listening to various "audiobooks" of Howard's Conan stories on RU-vid, and I think this is the only one that's really had a good grasp on Conan's character. People either make him out to be a complete idiot, or devoid of compassion. This really puts across his motivations better than any other reading I've found so far.
This was very well produced, absolutely loved every second of it. Some terms were missing, but that was to keep up with pacing, so i am okay with it in the end. Terms like "From what Hell have you crawled?!" and some other small things.
That was a damn good reading. I was tough on it for the first minute and a half, then I was in. And it kept getting better. Like old time radio. (The Shadow.) Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I remember every word.
Thanks for sharing this it was pretty awesome. I loved the voice for Conan and the elephant. So not every monster is a bad guy in the Robert e Howard stories? Also aliens exist in the conan universe?
To Baskerville manor your conan recordings are very good but what about any poems of robert e howard as well as a few dramatizations of the boxing stories of robert e howard
I think it’s kinda funny how some women and men overreact to spiders but if a woman killed a spider while saying “die you abomination from hell!” Like Conan does I’d automatically want to marry her. Is that normal?
