There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut, answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in th… - Robert E. Howard

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

And he lifted his clenched fists above his head, and with glaring eyes raised and writhing lips flecked with froths, he cursed the sky and the earth and the spheres above and below. He cursed the cold stars, the blazing sun, the mocking moon and the whisper of the wind. He cursed all fates and destinies, all that he had loved or hated, the silent cities beneath the seas, the past ages and the future eons. In one soul-shaking burst of blasphemy he cursed the gods and devils who made mankind their sport, and he cursed Man who lives blindly on and blindly offers his back to the iron-hoofed feet of his gods.

the mere fact of a black figure racing across the landscape carrying a white captive was bizarre enough,