Conan: The Flame Knife

The Flame Knife is a 1955 fantasy novella, but it was published in 1981 (paperback edition). It was previously published in two short story collections: Tales of Conan (Gnome Press, 1955) and Conan the Wanderer (Lancer Books, 1968).

His life imperiled by the mistrust of a mad King, a haunted by the armies of every nation of the Hyborian Age, the mighty Cimmerian, Conan, in the small band of loyal followers flee to the grim Hayek's of the unmapped Ilbars Mountains, in search of a stronghold that they can make their own. Instead they find the midnight evil of the legendary Magus of the sons of Yezm and his assassin followers... And an even blacker horror spawned by the very hills themselves...