Conan - The Tower of the Elephant, by Robert E. Howard

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The Cybrarian Presents,
[English] Conan - The Tower of the Elephant, by Robert E. Howard #audiobook #robertehoward #conanthebarbarian
[Published in Weird Tales March 1933, unabridged]
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Intro - 0:00
Chapter 1 - 1:42
Chapter 2 - 12:51
Chapter 3 - 51:54
End Credits - 1:20:07
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@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

The Tower of the Elephant - Remastered. (we actually looked into how long it would take to remaster the original, and realised that it'd take less time with a complete re-record, so here it is, a new updated recording, new images, more foley, more music, better quality - enjoy) This will be updated on our ‘Mature Fiction’ and 'Conan' playlists. If you have this saved on any personal playlists, please update as the original version shall be taken down (usually within 2 months of the remaster being premiered).

@mrfrogg46able Год назад

Yeah this guy is great

@disgruntledtoonbot1336 Год назад

I love all of these, but this one is my fave

@MartinMartin-bh4ke 8 месяцев назад

ya know with AI image generators being so good these days it would be easy to make the video with images that show more or less what is going on, might want to leave out color so people can imagine it still but vague representations are good tool. this is one of my favorite stories.

@AliceBowie Год назад

This is one of my favorites. Conan is a total bro. He's the ultimate example of "give respect, get respect". Also, the more civilized someone is, the more evil they become.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Too true, civilisation breed greed n corruption n all sorts of unpleasentness.

@ishtarg8 3 месяца назад

Civilisation is why the phone, pad or laptop on which you’re listening to this story came into being-and are also why you’re able to broadcast your opinion that it’s “evil “. Also, read Napoleon Chagnon’s account of the “fierce people” and then tell me civilisation is the source of evil.

@Feaelen 2 месяца назад

Of course Howard's ideas about civilization are debateable but "and yet you live in a civilization, curious" is a poor reply. The Fierce People is of course an interesting book but not one that is uncontroversial in its research methodology.

@markd.9042 2 месяца назад

Civilizations have existed for thousands of years in equilibrium and adaptability, and have fostered the best traits of humanity. Only until recently was this the case. But that is not because of civilization, it's because of an absence of civility.

@MoivinSulunker 2 месяца назад

What are the others?

@lonnytucker1345 2 года назад

Robert E Howard was a truly gifted author. Your narration brings his story to life. Well done sir, I am honored to be a member of this audience.

@suba7320 Год назад

For me this is the classic Conan tale. Perfect sword and sorcery.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Wonderful, and so near the start of Conan's adventures.

@d.aardent9382 Год назад

I first knew this story through a marvel giant size Conan graphic novel. I had not had this story in text to read before. The graphic novel art was really great in only monochrome black n white. I can't remember the artist, but it was high quality style,very realistic. I don't recall the comic version being as detailed and complicated of story, it was quite abridged now that I know the original.

@d.aardent9382 Год назад

PS: the graphic art version I recall also hit me as very sad,it was one of the very few Conan stories where the adversary was not really what was expected and was actually a enslaved victim of a sorcerer. As a kid it wasn't the typical stories I read as it wasn't expected turn of the plot. It was one of the best stories, as it was quite emotional to be found in a sword and sorcery adventure story.

@Duck_Dodgers 10 месяцев назад

How can it not be classic? It's original writer 1930s can't get any more classic not like there's going to anymore real conan stories written

@galbatorixhacks6481 2 года назад

The creativity and surreal nature of this story being made in 1933 is as astounding to me as conan coming across yog- kosha

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

Oh yes, it hit us when we were doing the Solomon Kane story where he fights bat-men...more than 20 years before Batman was thought up.

@hhjhj393 2 месяца назад

It's crazy that we think of Lord of the Rings as being "old" yet it's actually pretty recent and new lol......

@sardonicus6708 2 года назад

Some of the finest 'readings' of the Conan stories I have ever heard. Truly excellent stuff!

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! (yeah, we're never sure weather to call them audiobooks or dramatisations or what)

@MasterMalrubius Год назад

@@TheCybrarian I’d call it a dramatization since there were sound effects and more than just different voices for the characters. Conan’s voice was just what I would have expected. Ver well done!

@TheCybrarian Год назад

@@MasterMalrubius yeah, we like the term dramatisations, but audiobook seems to get more search results, algorithms etc (all tech bafflement)

@graysontheovercomer Год назад

Happily the first Conan story I listened to, and still my favorite. I hunted down a collection of Conan stories, all Howard's work. I have you to thank for introducing me to this marvelous series, and Robert E. Howard to boot. These audio books are excellent and I share them as often as I can.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Thank you so much, keep spreading the word :)

@ronaldp7573 Год назад

Your voice was made for heroic fantasy. Truly a joy to listen to this classic tale all Howard fans are familiar with.

@slacknhash 2 года назад

Very nice voice for Yag-Kosha there. Finally getting a decent sense of his age and agony!

@libertyprime6932 2 года назад

This is amazing. I can't believe we get such excellent content for free. You are such a legend 🤘

@codelicious6590 Год назад

Listening to these old Howards stories makes one feel like theyre privy to secret and ancient histories, such a rich and full atmosphere man, great job!!

@OneEyedJack1970 Год назад

This is my first Conan story, from back in the SSOC days

@TheCybrarian Год назад

it was one of the first written, and shows Conan at his youngest

@jonnjenkins5592 Год назад

I am so glad that I found your channel. I stumbled upon this story when I was 12 years old and was immediately hooked. I read everything Conan that I could find. During a terrible time in my life filled with abuse at home and bullying at school, these stories helped me to escape reality. Conan was fearless and unstoppable. I would pick up one of his stories and immediately be transported to a place where nobody could hurt me. I am 51 now and had almost forgotten about that magical place. Thank you for narrating these stories. I look forward to listening to many more .

@TheCybrarian Год назад

The world can be real harsh n we all need a place to escape to. You're always welcome here.

@coreythompsonTheOneandOnly 11 месяцев назад

"Dimly lighted 🕯️by no means he could ascertain" Dear 😮 God, this is simply amazing narration. The guy who speaks these stories is truly special, he is truly one of one

@gamingcastle9854 2 года назад

Well done, I have the whole collection of Howard's Conan stories in a giant book. Your narration was fantastic.

@jasonthomas6206 2 года назад

One minute in and it's already a masterpiece, bravo!

@caryharperll3985 Год назад

I have listened to a few of these now on long car rides and I have to say they are fantastic. The narration and voice acting really enrapture you in the story, thanks for doing this!

@cheritripp9470 2 года назад

I have another dramatization of that story,but you're better (better than the previous one here) because you kept all the words. As usual, really enjoyed the accents and sound effects. Good work!

@errolblood 2 года назад

This was excellent. My favorite Howard tale.

@geerat1205 2 месяца назад

The background sounds and music really help me focus on these. Thank you!

@MarkTerminus Месяц назад

Marvellous. First read these as a kid in the 70's. Memories are made of these. Much thanks!

@machine3589 2 года назад

Another great reading!

@grandadmiralthrawn5036 2 года назад

Thanks so much! Tower of the Elephant is my favorite Conan story and your reading is so perfect.

@RetroRanter Год назад

Listening to these all over again as I've binged pretty much everything on the channel 🤣 and something I didn't notice before, this is a story of a younger Conan and you being the genius you are, gave him a younger tone of voice in this one, he doesn't sounds as gruff as in the tales of his later exploits, brilliant!

@TheCybrarian Год назад

ye, think we tried to lean into that more in the remaster, thanks

@carl7382 Год назад

This is my favorite Conan story.

@TheFirefist13 Год назад

Your voice acting is fantastic! Subscribing, and then going to binge your conan readings

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Welcome aboard! try the playlists... ru-vid.com/group/PLlFcav_ti8rkUvq2sqnHxKQ6AmeSN-2QK

@Charlie_Duz Год назад

I remember this as a strip story in 'The Savage Sword of Conan' magazine. Always been my favourite Conan story. Great reading. Thank you. 👏👏🐘🗡️

@TheXygos Год назад

His prose is very descriptive, yet not overwrought. He writes as if he intended it to be filmed❤

@TheCybrarian Год назад

REH does so well at doing more with less

@AlbinoAxolotl1993 8 месяцев назад

Or Illustrated.

@TheDarkHarper 7 месяцев назад

This is such a good narration, plus that angle of Lovecraft Elder Gods + Conan always never disappoints!

@TheCybrarian 7 месяцев назад

it is odd and wonderful the REH makes us sympathetic toward a Lovecraftian outer god

@TheDarkHarper 7 месяцев назад

@@TheCybrarian Lend a lot more depth to Lovecraft's short story 'the Outer Gods' - proves that we humans are capable of great evil

@noblebarbarian3739 2 года назад

Spectacular, again and again.

@JohnSmith-2koolaid 2 года назад

One my favorites been waiting for this version

@bdmartinjr.1715 2 года назад

Well done.

@Paxtonparsnip 10 месяцев назад

You have brought this to perfect life! Very skillful and thoroughly entertaining! Magnificent reading and sound effects! Thanks!

@coreythompsonTheOneandOnly Год назад

You did great work with this narration. The way you did this story was done so well, I know this spreads peace and happiness to whomever hears it, when you do your job this good, you're doing God's work, you blessed the human race with this one, God bless you and all your subscribers too

@louislo9607 2 года назад

Great story telling and great visual effects. I just came across this channel 2 days ago and it's a great channel.

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

Welcome aboard! Plenty more to enjoy.

@thomasmisch6356 Год назад

The cybrarian you just got you self a new fan. Excellent

@jacobmccormick3823 2 года назад

Id love to hear you cover "the flower women" by Clark Ashton Smith !

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

We've had CAS reckommended several times and we shall get to him and lovecraft in due course, thanks.

@VESZ776 Год назад

Great voice for the elephant! Really similar to John Hurt's performance in David Lynch's The Elephant Man.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

wow, we hadn't thought of that, but yeah, the breathy gasping nassle effect is what we tried to go for

@louisbaldwin7097 2 года назад

another great reading , cheers

@johnfrickstad2353 9 месяцев назад

I usually don't like audio versions of Howard's work, but this is pretty good.

@johnhart7704 2 года назад

Terrific .

@spaghettitime3263 2 года назад

Great Yag-kosha voice in this, really hard thing to capture just reading the text, it takes a lot of imagination to interpret it

@matthewwalker5504 9 месяцев назад

Good one !

@Danthehorse 2 года назад

This is great! I wish the Conan stories were numbered in order , I am having a hard time finding which to listen to next.

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

We have a playlist with all current conan stories in chronology for the character... ru-vid.com/group/PLlFcav_ti8rkUvq2sqnHxKQ6AmeSN-2QK ...enjoy.

@Danthehorse 2 года назад

Super, thanks so much, and I will sir!

@capslockbusted Год назад

Hell of a story, well told.

@proto-geek248 4 месяца назад

A very fine reading. Nice music, pics & soundfx. Impressive. Thanks for the posting & the great work.🪓

@angryman2406 2 года назад

This is fantastic.

@wolfgangallanalhazred802 Год назад

This is incredible!

@ethanhernandez9889 2 месяца назад

Crazy that this story is over 90 years old

@grantbarnes3678 2 года назад

Superb, thanks!

@VictorianTimeTraveler Год назад

Man, I thought that million-year-old, flying, alien, elephant demon? Would never die. I have expected the next line to be "Conan never heard the second half of the elephant's dying words as he had fallen asleep.." (great story and excellent reading by the way)

@michaelturner2523 7 месяцев назад

"are you going to touch me again?" 😢 that poor creature

@wesd7338 2 года назад

That was great. Thank you.

@chrispeterson3362 2 месяца назад

Just discovered Robert E. Howard recently and have been enjoying alot of his stories. Excellent narration I look forward to listening to the rest on your channel

@TheCybrarian 2 месяца назад

welcome, you'll have a lot to get through, it'd be great to experience these for the first time again.

@marktcole 2 года назад

Excellent, again.

@joebellave2877 3 месяца назад

One of your best, sir.

@therussiancomicbookgeek 18 дней назад

I actually adapted this story as well with my buddy Matt Schmitz

@spaghettitime3263 2 года назад

How old do you think Conan is supposed to be in this story? I always have pictured this as one of his earliest adventures from how unfamiliar he comes across in the beginning

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

We think he's barely 20, if that

@billyrayvalentine8471 2 года назад

I've always understood him to be 18 or so. I believe Roy Thomas pegged him for 18 here. Still fairly ignorant of the ways of civilization.

@bdmartinjr.1715 2 года назад

A whelp, no doubt, but a keen and agile one.

@cheritripp9470 2 года назад

@@billyrayvalentine8471 Side note; I think Thomas won the Shazam award for Best writer in his (and Barry Smith) adaptation of this story. That's why I enjoyed Robert Jordan early Conan novels. It was fun reading about a teenager Conan (who people kept underestimating because of his age.)

@spaghettitime3263 2 года назад

@@TheCybrarian thinking about it now, this experience with Yag-Kosha was probably a major formulative moment for Conan, revealing his true heritage as an Atlantean and setting him on the path to being king of Aquilonia

@richardsargentsr.1384 2 года назад

Thank you, well done

@stevenpadilla5720 Год назад

This was Great story, The narrator gets a 👍 from me. I love Conan stories. Please 🙏 continue with the great work.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Many more to come!

@johndoe1.196 Месяц назад

Dramatized. Nice. Keep it unabridged. 👍👍

@DomnulSarb 8 месяцев назад

Korgoth of Barbaria

@bigj2518 Год назад

Outstanding!

@kupus6622 4 дня назад

1933? Wow i cant get my head around that.

@TheCybrarian День назад

i know, right? so much great work, 90 years ago, and all before the author was 30

@manarayofhope2374 Год назад

Damn that was good

@billjonesjr8718 Год назад

Thank you, great stories great rendition.

@cody1570 Год назад

Bro for real u guys are badass

@ronnyrono782 Год назад

Nothing short of great

@andrewmckeown6786 11 месяцев назад

Brother! I grew up on those 12 Books! And the Cover Artists🤟❤️🇨🇦🍻

@TheCybrarian 11 месяцев назад

Excellent Canada!

@TheRealEvilRoy Год назад

Woah.... I subbed

@ericswain70 Год назад

Back again. 🍻Hope your feeling better.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

thank you

@mudbutt234 2 года назад

Gotta appreciate the accents. Nemedian sounding German.

@Duck_Dodgers 10 месяцев назад

At least this is actually conan Robert e howards written not some person who thinks they can write him. Not L. Sprague de camp saying hey let me do a rewrite an edit take part stories. Use kull stories make them conan stories. Thanks well read

@TheCybrarian 10 месяцев назад

oh yes, we only use original REH

@jackp492 Год назад

I love it, I feel like I was never civilised, as much as I try

@MrJCKING2121 Год назад

In "Red Nails" the sent of a black lotus only causes deep sleep. In this one it's instant death. Funny little incongruity in REH's world of sword and sorcery.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

yeah, we noticed diff stories sometimes have diff colors of lotus and have odd differing effects (they're in queen of the black coast and other's too), think it's just all-purpose mcguffin

@TheCybrarian Год назад

prob like an opiate, a little gets u high like the guys in slithering shadow, a bit more knocks u out like conan in queen of the black coast, and even more kills you like the lions in elephants tower

@bouganhagain8131 2 года назад

Man id really like you to read the hour of the dragon, it is 8 hours long though...

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

That is prob the only reason we haven't attempted it yet. We're considering some form of croudfunding for it in the future so we can cover all the extra time it would take and work on it alongside our usualy releases (so we're not just spending months doing only that).

@bouganhagain8131 2 года назад

@@TheCybrarian not going to lie, id be up for it

@TheCybrarian 2 года назад

@@bouganhagain8131 well when it happens, we'll shout about it all over the channel, so you'll hear it coming, thanks

@endymionmikel4022 2 месяца назад

The Emperor in his more belligerent phase of life

@thefdvproduction 2 года назад

12:46

@eryqsummerlott9828 Год назад

Subbed!

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Welcome!

@MoivinSulunker 2 месяца назад

torches flared murkily.

@willadeefriesland5107 Год назад

With Yag-Kosha and his people coming from an alien world out in the stars, we have a Science Fiction Conan story... of a sort.

@TheCybrarian Год назад

absolutley, its all cosmos cthulhu, we love it

@Zach-gr4gh 4 месяца назад

Will this become available again on Audible in the UK? The product is no longer available!

@TheCybrarian 4 месяца назад

eventually probably, but first we have to draft a print on demand book version with our own bio to attached it to due to audible guidelines, but before that it and other stories of ours are/will be available on bandcamp... thecybrarian.bandcamp.com/

@Bilboswaggins2077 Год назад

32:27

@thomaslietzau2813 7 месяцев назад

WHAT REGION AND CITY WAS THE TOWER of the ELEPHANT ?

@TheCybrarian 7 месяцев назад

the Zamorian city of Arenjun, also known as the "City of Thieves", based on Persia, especially Baghdad. (as per wiki and sword of REH sources)

@thomaslietzau2813 7 месяцев назад

@@TheCybrarian THANKS

@MoivinSulunker 2 месяца назад

Ulster Plantation?

@ronselporter4739 Год назад

A tragic story

@TheCybrarian Год назад

we all feel sorry for the tortured god😓

@ronselporter4739 Год назад

@@TheCybrarian On a neat side it shows that humans too can be monsters

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Humans are usually the problem. The reason there's monsters is coz humans have worshipped it or something.

@ronselporter4739 Год назад

@@TheCybrarian now that is untapped power

@bigj2518 Год назад

Is that a hammered dulcimer at the intro music?

@TheCybrarian Год назад

Unfortunately, we can't confirm that as we didn't put it together. We could write and perform our own music for these but fear it would take too long and we'd never finish anything. In the video description is the track list for all the music involved which is available from RU-vid audio library, this is the track you mean... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ajhw4paxPCA.html

@bigj2518 Год назад

That’s the one, thank you for replying! I read about every Conan book when I was younger, amongst hundreds of others, and to this day I believe they are captivating, exciting, the perfect length for a short read, etc. My mother played the dulcimer and the hammered dulcimer and I thought I noticed it and it worked perfectly in a genre of books that I would have never expected to find it. Thank you again for the good work, you picked the absolute perfect reading material.

@bigj2518 Год назад

I played it for my mother and she confirmed that it was with about 98% certainty a hammered dulcimer. Thank you again for the good work and for taking the time to reply. My mother got her dulcimers at the Berea arts fair in Kentucky. Interesting to hear an instrument born in Appalachia, played in an Arabian theme, at the beginning of a Conan book!

@TheCybrarian Год назад

@@bigj2518 Fantastic. Yeah, we loved that Eastern, almost Sitar, feel.

@bigj2518 Год назад

You guys really hit the nail on the head! I loved reading books so much for so many years. My favorite series of books were the Conan books obviously, the Piers Anthony Xanth series, and the Dragonlance Chronicles! Life is so busy and hectic these days that Conan may translate the best into audio format of the three.

@toonbat 3 месяца назад

R.E. HOWARD: "So I'm writing this story featuring a freakishly creepy alien being who is worshipped as a god by jungle tribes..." H.P. LOVECRAFT: "Fucking based!" R.E HOWARD: "...who turns to be a totally cool guy, cruelly and unjustifiably tortured by civilized men." H.P. LOVECRAFT: "Dude, WTF??" R.E. HOWARD: "Oh, and the jungle tribe people are pretty cool too." H.P. LOVECRAFT: "Nooooooo!!"

@MoivinSulunker 2 месяца назад

thither he glid.

@paulross225 2 года назад

Love the stories and narration. I hate and am irritated by the disclaimer. I began reading the Conan series when I was about 12/13,they never disturbed or upset me in any way whatsoever - quite the opposite in fact. The 21st century is becoming a distopian nightmare written about in the 20th - truth stranger than fiction? Not exactly but definitely becoming strange as fiiction.

@danthoreson4062 3 месяца назад

schumitush counterfeiter with his hooked nose and curled blue black beard. kicked out of that bar 109 times

@TheCybrarian 3 месяца назад

yup, gets rough out there

@jeimmigarcia4311 Год назад

How is this story a criticism of nationalism? How does the elephant describe the lifespan of empires and nations? What is Howard trying to say about the belief that one particular nation is superior to another?

@jeimmigarcia4311 Год назад

I need help answering this question

@TheCybrarian Год назад

we're not sure, it could be that the endless lifespan of the elephant allows it to witness the rise and fall of nations and as the adage states 'treason is just a matter of dates' so are nations, they eb and flow as do views of them