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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7694568" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Yes, I was wondering that too, since the "Kraken" in question is from a story by Abraham Merritt which is neither a Conan story nor set in the Hyborian age. The Dwellers in the Mirage is set in then-modern times (the 1920s or early 1930s) and stars a Scandinavian-American. It's definitely sometime after World War I.</p><p></p><p>Much of the story takes place while the hero is on the "Fairchild expedition" to Mongolia, which I suspect is either a reference to or inspired by the famous expeditions to that country led by Roy Chapman Andrews during the period 1922-1925. It's worth noting the purpose of the expedition was to test the human ancestry theory of Henry Fairchild Osborne who was president of the American Museum of Natural History at the time. So Dwellers in the Mirage is most likely set sometime between 1922 and 1932.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure Conan never fought a Kraken in any story by Robert E Howard, although he might have done so in one or more of the pastiche non-Howard novels. He certainly fought his fair share of giant cephalopods in the comics!</p><p></p><p>That said, the monster would fit in nicely with a Robert E Howard fantasy story.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's been years since I've read it, but I don't remember a Kraken. Unless my memory deceives me there were incorporeal horrors that killed with a touch called "Red Shadows" and "Dragons" that lived on a lost continent (I vaguely recall Conan fighting dragons on a giant step-pyramid at the end of the book). But it's so long I may just have forgotten a Kraken. I can always pull it out for a re-read.</p><p></p><p>Besides, wasn't <em>Conan of the Isles</em> published in the mid-70s, around the same time as <em>Supplement IV: Gods, Demigods, Heroes</em>? That seems a bit too recent for a literary monster to appear in that OD&D supplement, didn't most of the book-sources beasties in it dated from the 1930s or earlier?</p><p></p><p>I'll just go and check...</p><p></p><p>...ah, <em>Conan of the Islands</em> was first published in 1968, but the first British edition appeared on my shores in 1974. That's probably why I was thinking it was a mid-70s book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7694568, member: 57383"] Yes, I was wondering that too, since the "Kraken" in question is from a story by Abraham Merritt which is neither a Conan story nor set in the Hyborian age. The Dwellers in the Mirage is set in then-modern times (the 1920s or early 1930s) and stars a Scandinavian-American. It's definitely sometime after World War I. Much of the story takes place while the hero is on the "Fairchild expedition" to Mongolia, which I suspect is either a reference to or inspired by the famous expeditions to that country led by Roy Chapman Andrews during the period 1922-1925. It's worth noting the purpose of the expedition was to test the human ancestry theory of Henry Fairchild Osborne who was president of the American Museum of Natural History at the time. So Dwellers in the Mirage is most likely set sometime between 1922 and 1932. I'm pretty sure Conan never fought a Kraken in any story by Robert E Howard, although he might have done so in one or more of the pastiche non-Howard novels. He certainly fought his fair share of giant cephalopods in the comics! That said, the monster would fit in nicely with a Robert E Howard fantasy story. It's been years since I've read it, but I don't remember a Kraken. Unless my memory deceives me there were incorporeal horrors that killed with a touch called "Red Shadows" and "Dragons" that lived on a lost continent (I vaguely recall Conan fighting dragons on a giant step-pyramid at the end of the book). But it's so long I may just have forgotten a Kraken. I can always pull it out for a re-read. Besides, wasn't [I]Conan of the Isles[/I] published in the mid-70s, around the same time as [I]Supplement IV: Gods, Demigods, Heroes[/I]? That seems a bit too recent for a literary monster to appear in that OD&D supplement, didn't most of the book-sources beasties in it dated from the 1930s or earlier? I'll just go and check... ...ah, [I]Conan of the Islands[/I] was first published in 1968, but the first British edition appeared on my shores in 1974. That's probably why I was thinking it was a mid-70s book. [/QUOTE]
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