With the help of Zenobia the slave girl, Conan attempts to escape from the dungeons of the King of Nemedia but not before he battles the Haunter of the Pits. Conan is cornered and attacked by a great hulking monster of enormous size and strength. He quickly recognizes that the grisly ogre is a man-eating ape from the mountain forests near the Sea of Vilayet. These killer apes were the most feared beasts of the Hyborian age. This 6" figure interacts with Conan the Warrior (sold seperately) to create a battle scene.
REVIEW
Howard uses another Demon Ape. The Hour of the Dragon was Robert E. Howard's full-length Conan novel and one of his best stories in my opinion. Conan has become King of Aquilonia, usurping the throne from the tyrannical and crazed King Namedides by strangling him on the throne. Now the righful heir Valerius, a defrocked Priest, and other conspirators plot to take back the throne and to this end use an artifact called the heart of Ahriman to bring the Necromancer named Xaltotun back to life after 3,000 years. Xaltotun was a High Priest of Set in Acheron in what is now Stygia in the present day Hyborian world.
Xaltotun captures Conan who the other conspirators think is dead. he locks him in the dungeons below the Palace of King Tarascus. Conan is soon rescued by the slave girl Zenobia who frees him by providing the keys to his shackles and the door. As Conan makes his way from the dungeons he's attacked by the Haunter of the Pits, one the great, gray apes of myth. In Robert E. Howard's own words,
"Conan stepped out into the nearest square of moonlight, so as to have all the advantage of illumination that he could; for the beast, he knew, could see better than himself in the dark. Instantly the brute saw him;its great yellow tusks gleamed in the shadows, but it made no sound. Creatures of night and the silence, the gray apes of Vilayet were voiceless. But in its dim, hideous features, which were a bestial travesty of a human face, showed ghastly exultation."
Wow...Awesome stuff and the perfect complement to the other figures in this line.
