"King of the Forgotten People"
Conan's fellow mercenaries have all died on their trip through the desert, killed by a troup which continues to hound Conan as he pushes his horse onward. He manages to escape pursuit and evade giant spiders before coming upon a citadel in the desert, home to the man that they had been hunting, the Nemedian Barlonius. Barlonius' wife had commissioned the mercenaries to return her husband, but Barlonius has found a source of dark power in the desert and is not eager to let it go.