Conan: The Hall of the Dead - Robert E. Howard audiobook

Venture into the mysterious and treacherous depths of the ancient world with my full reading of Robert E. Howard's 'The Hall of the Dead,' a Conan the Barbarian story enriched with sorcery and dark secrets. 🗡️🏺
📖 Written by Robert E. Howard, completed by L. Sprague de Camp
🎨 Art made with DALL-E
This audiobook-style presentation, enhanced with evocative visuals from DALL-E, brings to life one of Conan's lesser-known yet profoundly captivating adventures. 'The Hall of the Dead' sees Conan navigating through forgotten ruins and facing formidable foes in a quest that tests his wit and warrior prowess.
Perfect for fans of adventure, short stories, sword & sorcery, and audiobooks. This tale not only highlights Conan's legendary bravery but also his strategic acumen as he encounters the supernatural and the remnants of ancient civilizations.
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[@luthermcgee3767]

The narrative was great, and the illustrations, impressive. Especially the ruins of Larsha.

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the entire package!

[@luthermcgee3767]

Well, not the entire package- the slug that chased Conan over half the city was shown as much smaller than the original when he killed it. After he did that, it was still 50 feet long, just a dead one. I'm just keeping it real.

[@markwatkins4282]

@@luthermcgee3767 Small slugs move faster. If you come across a 10 foot slug, you get a 50/50 chance to get away, so long as you run down hill. Crom loves escargot.

[@MiniatureMythos]

Fair enough! Can't deny that the slug has diminished a bit from it's epic size when Nestor comes into the scene... Might be a case of "I once caught a fish *this* big!", but then "Nestor, I just fought a slug *this* big" while the obvious smaller slug is lying right there?

[@luthermcgee3767]

@@MiniatureMythos , it wasn't you being dishonest, but AI. But, cheers! Larsha was great. And the direct quotation of the story, faultless.

[@Balrog4242]

Howard looking at a slug in the garden: "I can write a horror story about that."

[@MiniatureMythos]

Yeah, seeing how many statues Conan dropped on the thing before going down and hacking it to pieces... I think Howard had some issues with slugs ^^

[@markwatkins4282]

@@MiniatureMythos When I was 20 yrs old, I was using a weed-eater in the yard, wearing only cut-offs, and I accidentally killed a slug. It ranks as one of my most disgusting and never forgettable memories. : (

[@MiniatureMythos]

Oh sheesh... yeah, I can imagine that will leave some kind of trauma!

[@countiblis1246]

Howard looking at a fifty foot slug in the garden: "I can write a Conan story about that."

[@Balrog4242]

​@@countiblis1246 I see you've been to Texas :D

[@sobrietyliiving]

Great reading! So relieved isn't another AI reading...keep up the great work, friend! Subbed!

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you for the kind words! I´m enjoying these too much to have some robot read them for me ^^

[@TheybyBaby]

You rock 🎉, thanks for reading it for us ​@@MiniatureMythos

[@MiniatureMythos]

@@TheybyBaby You're very welcome! Thanks for the compliment!

[@antoinedoinel153]

I really like the pace that these stories are read in. Very well done all around ❤

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it!

[@WarDogMadness]

The ai art combo and reading are fantastic. Awesome job dude..

[@MiniatureMythos]

@@WarDogMadness Thank you!

[@mothersuperior2014]

EXCELLENT JOB great story

[@demongo2007]

I’ve been looking for this story on audio for awhile, awesome!

[@MiniatureMythos]

I'm happy I could provide you with it! If there's any more stories you're looking for, let me know and I'll see if I can add them to the list.

[@Bhakhanda1369]

This was very enjoyable to listen to. I very much enjoyed the artwork along with the prose. I hope you keep doing this and make more readings, and about Beowulf, I think you would do well, and other Norse tales as well. This was excellent. This was a great story of the younger Conan, while he was still in his thieving years.

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thanks for the kind words and feedback! Very much enjoy the Conan the Thief-arc as well. And I guess I have an added direction to expand my To-Read list now: Norse Tales! I'll see about adding some.

[@markwatkins4282]

A slug that size, with 100 pounds of butter, 50 pounds of garlic and 15 pounds of salt, could have fed a typical Hyborean village for months. Cook it first.

[@countiblis1246]

That slug "could" have fed them for months, but when you added those 15 pounds of salt...

[@a.m.pietroschek1972]

Good idea to start with a rare-gem type of story and a solid narration!

[@MiniatureMythos]

Happy you enjoyed it! And thanks for the compliment!

[@mq9893]

Maaaaaaagnificent, by Crom!!

[@tommygreene47]

Love the pictures along with the story

[@MiniatureMythos]

Glad you like them! I do try to put some effort in them

[@tommygreene47]

@@MiniatureMythos amazing

[@brandonwilson5998]

The voice for the audio is really nice.

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you! I try my best!

[@drew3865]

Loved this story as a teen in high school in the 80s, thanks for doing a Conan pastiche by L Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter.. Hard to find any of the pastiche stories as audiobooks on KZbin. City of Skulls would be awesome. I loved Juma the Kushite as a character.

[@MiniatureMythos]

Indeed, some of the pastiches are really good! However, since they've been written/published after Howard's death, copyright is still often an issue, and I think that's the reason why they're not adapted into audiobooks that often. I'll take a look at The City of Skulls to see what the copyright status is, and if it's possible, I'll put it in the line-up :)

[@leebennett1821]

Thanks

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@SautterFilm]

Fantastic reading!

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@wallacetrottier3654]

Sweet thank you my dude

[@MiniatureMythos]

Glad you liked it!

[@Tadders]

I like to listen to these at night. Thank you for making these (: i hope the music/theme SFX doesnt get out of hand. You do it the way you like, though. I prefer the sound of your voice, though, over the music. The absence of music adds weight to the spoken words i feel.

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thanks for the feedback! It's an ongoing struggle to balance the volume of my voice against the volume of the music. I'll try to keep the music on the low end as much as possible!

[@colinjohngilbert3994]

Conan ❤🇮🇪🧙‍♂️🤘

[@coreythompsonTheOneandOnly]

American History forgot about Robert E.Howard but God bless you, God bless you (👇🏼) and God bless all the subscribers too 🙏🏼 for bringing him back 🔙

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you for your heartfelt blessings. Blessings to you as well! In the spirit of Conan, Crom gave us the strength to shape our legacies. Thank you for helping keep Robert E. Howard's legacy alive!

[@louiehoughton5553]

Fifty Foot Slug..... Great old punk band.

[@arthurfrayn2652]

Your Teutonic? accent would be outstanding for Beowulf...

[@MiniatureMythos]

Now that´s a compliment I haven´t heard before. I´ll see if I can put Beowulf on the To-Read list!

[@mayareece318]

​@@MiniatureMythosIf you do Beowulf Pleeeeease check out Seamus Heaney's translation, its so good!

[@ZakStandridge]

cheers, mate

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thanks!

[@fnunez]

Did you do all the voices? that's a great range!

[@MiniatureMythos]

I wish I had that kind of range! I've had some help from friends to help me voice the different soldiers at the beginning of the story ^^

[@shanegreen9511]

Great narrator sounds a bit like Arnold

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thanks for the kind words! I tried to give Conan a bit of a stoic voice without sounding like Arnold, but I guess his influence on the character is just too strong ^^

[@ge0metr1xx]

This doesn't seem like REH's writing style at all. Is this a pastiche?

[@MiniatureMythos]

@@ge0metr1xx It is. REH wrote the synopsis and L. Sprague de Camp wrote it out after REH passed away.

[@user-jl8mp6lg4i]

Complete

[@coreythompsonTheOneandOnly]

This dudes voice is kinda cool 🆒😎, he almost sounds like the Scottish professional wrestler Drew McIntyre

[@josephb3193]

I love the story but somehow doubt it was written by Howard. Conan never goes back on his word. If he agreed to 50/50 then that is what it would be. Claiming the 7 jewels for his own is out of character..The illustrations are fine and must have been costly. Bravo

[@MiniatureMythos]

Correct, Howard wrote the summary of this story during his life, and Sprague Le Camp turned that into a complete story. The outline is Howard´s, the details aren´t. So Conan going back on his word doesn´t belong to the Howard canon 😁

[@josephb3193]

@@MiniatureMythos Thanks for the confirmation.

[@jekin905]

LETS PUT A COMMERCIAL EVERY 5 MINUTES

[@MiniatureMythos]

I´m terribly sorry 😢 I´ve tried checking every box to make sure there´s a minimum of adds in these, but KZbin seems to have a different idea about what a ´minimum´ is...

[@jekin905]

@@MiniatureMythos oh my bad..tnx for your work then

[@MiniatureMythos]

No, you're right. It's unacceptable to have ads every 5 minutes. And thanks to your comment I looked into it further, and tried some additional settings to hopefully improve the situation.

[@jonathancampbell7798]

4:10 Arthur Morgan

[@MiniatureMythos]

I've also heard Jaime Lannister from someone else... Either way, Nestor should be a very capable man if he resembles any of those two ;)

[@TheToma305]

"Hawk tuah!🎉

[@MiniatureMythos]

"And spit on that Barbarian, you get me?"

[@mq9893]

@@MiniatureMythos 😁⚔

[@maunderjape8365]

AI art?

[@MiniatureMythos]

Yes, I generate the art with AI. Often I do change stuff in there with Photoshop to better fit the scene, but the basis is always an AI image.

[@maunderjape8365]

@@MiniatureMythos sorry but I can't abide AI. Shame, there's decades of real Conan art.

[@MiniatureMythos]

That's fine. You are entitled to that opinion and I respect you telling me that. There is in fact a lot of Conan art around, that much is true. Some of them are truly epic. But, even if it's decades old, someone did put work in it and owns the art. The reason I don't want to use existing art is two-fold: first, it would be a huge added workload to figure out the correct copyright status for that art, and to track down the copyright holder (if they're still around) to get approval to use the art. Second, as a small channel, this doesn't generate me any income just yet, so I can't buy a license to use copyrighted art. Since this is a hobby project besides my full-time job, going to AI seemed like a logical step to support the creation of these videos. It's true, those reasons don't give me a "need" to use AI, since I also fully believe no one "needs" to use AI, but I've made the decision to use it nonetheless. My reasoning being that I'm already using my own voice, licensed music that I bought and read actual published stories. Since these make up the core to my narrations, I feel the art is rather something to prevent you from looking at a blank screen for the duration of the stories :) And I'm fully planning to actually start commissioning artists once this channel's revenue makes it possible. If you'd like versions of my stories where no AI was involved, you can also find me on Spotify. That's just the audio and music of the audiobooks. If not, then no harm done, and I'm glad you did visit the channel, even if you decide that the format is not for you :)

[@maunderjape8365]

I meant also to give you credit for doing your own reading. Really a terrific job and your accent makes it even better. Well done!

[@MiniatureMythos]

Thank you, I really appreciate it!