In Pteion

Conan The Rebel, XVIII.

Conan and his men fight:

dried corpses made to stand, march and attack;

ghouls;

horrific animals that Poul Anderson must have invented;

falling buildings (not fight, just avoid);

a man riding a winged monster (since by now Conan has found the Ax, this last threat is easily dispatched).

The man on the monster, killed by his own magic when it rebounds from the Ax, turns out to have been the wizard, Topathis, so Conan is clearly triumphant although Nehekba still plays some game that neither Conan nor we, the readers, understand as yet. All will be made clear in the remaining two chapters which will conclude Poul Anderson's contribution to the Conan chronicles.

Would we have liked more Andersonian Conan? Not me, but I would have welcomed more Technic History. Like The Lord Of The Rings, that series is long but also too short.