A decent kickoff to this Savage Tales Short Fiction series from Heroic/Titan. I think this a good idea, so long as they keep the stories $2-2.50...and then eventually offer a print omnibus. As for this particular tale, Jones opens the modern telling of Conan's adventures with a cool sorcerous & monstrous foe. He also gives us an indomitable Cimmerian with excellent displays of mirth and LIVE!ism and mercenary intent -- a perfect S&S Attitude story!

I have been extremely excited about the new Conan releases that have been announced since Heroic Signatures took over the literary property (I think that is correct). I was especially excited to hear that Heroin Signatures would be releasing a story each month, over the next year, featuring Conan or another of REH's creations. I know many are displeased that the 12 stories are not being released at once and in print, but I think the idea of releasing a story a month, digitally, is a very smart move to appeal to the readers of today. I woke up this morning and the story was available on my Kindle. A short time later, the story has been read. Very satisfying. That said, if a print version of these stories are made available, I will buy it.

Regarding this initial monthly release, I enjoyed it immensely. It did take me a minute to adjust to the short story vibe, getting right to the point, but that was an easy adjustment and I was soon enjoying a very good Conan tale. I won't spoil anything, but I was happy that this was not a straight up hack & slash tale.

Now, I am patiently awaiting the next monthly Conan release, by John C. Hocking, in October (which will be an appetizer to the bigger release of Conan in the City of the Dead by Mr. Hocking, planned for release in 2024).

Heroic Signatures, keep publishing Conan stories, and I will keep buying them.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. This is not the Conan pastiche I grew up reading. It is a Conan short story by a modern author writing in their own voice.

The story itself was fast-paced and entertaining. And what a great monster! The Lord of the Mount itself is a worthy addition to the catalog of monsters in the Conan universe.

Lord of the Mount takes Conan to a remote mountain pass where he encounter dangers out of the weird past. Jones captures the snappy, action-packed prose of Howard, while maintaining his own voice, and presents it in the true pulp format—the short story. Very entertaining tale and I will be looking forward to the next releases in the Heroic Legends series!

Conan is too often portrayed as either utterly amoral, or simplisticly direct, when he was neither. Although SGJ's tale, a loose riff on Beowulf, is not terribly complex, nor features any of the signature horror for which the author is known, he clearly gets what makes Conan whom he is and the action pulses. A fun, fast, read.

Nice job and a great nod to a real classic story. Would like to see that the author will do next.

A must read for all sword and sorcery fans. A great start to this series. We need more like this!

This is the first Conan tale I've read that wasn't written by Robert E. Howard, so I was curious to see how another author would do in the lands of the Hyborian Age. I've read other stories by Stephen Graham Jones, so I was very excited to see he had written a Conan tale! Jones captures that same REH style of writing in this fast read. The story is lots of fun, and left me wanting more. Also, I'm glad Jones was able to work the word "thews" into the tale, by Mitra!

Conan Lord of the Mount is a new short story by Stephen Graham Jones featuring Robert E Howard's Conan the Barbarian

The premise is familiar, Conan is the only survivor of a raiding party and has to pass through a mountain pass haunted by a mysterious creature "Lord of the Mount" in order to reach civilization.

It is a pretty good story, the first 10 pages or so have a creepy ambience which is expected in a good sword and sorcery story and switches into good action writing.

If you're ok with e-book format, this is worth purchasing for the price.

The author is atrocious almost juvinle in writing

You could be mistaken if thia was written with AI

Great ending

The first of Titan Publishing's new 'Heroic Legends' series- individually marketed ebook short stories, released sequentially, beginning at midnight last night. And yes, I did wait up and buy it at one minute past, do you need to ask?

The reason I was so keen to read this one, is that Stephen Graham Jones is an author whose works I bloody love. He wrote 'My Heart is a Chainsaw', which i would recommend to anyone who grew up, like me, with horror and slasher movies of the late 1970s and 80s. I'll read anything Jones writes, and when he gives us a new story featuring a character who may just be my favourite in all of fiction, well, let's just say I had high hopes.

Thankfully, he didn't let me down. While brief, 'Lord of the Mount' is a very good Conan story. Suitably violent, with the required amount of world-building, and the character is close enough to REH's original so as to not leave the reader distressed or angry. This is very definitely the same Conan we all love. At £1.99 for 45 pages (minus all the other bumf that comes with these things) of brutal and clever storytelling, you can't really complain.

The next one of these is out in October. I hope they do many more.

I wanted to enjoy this but unfortunately it's a bit meh (am I still allowed to say that? I can't think of any better way of putting it). It reads like generic sword and sorcery, the fact that the lead character is called "Conan" is entirely coincidental. It's the sort of thing Michael Moorcock could have typed with his eyes shut after a three-night bender with Hawkwind.