Conan and a warrior woman escape a dragon only to stumble on an ancient city populated with two bands of feuding squatters. Choosing a side by chance, they find themselves allied with a treacherous prince and an evil sorceress. Conan is a wandering mercenary at this point in his career. The story presented herewith is one of the most powerful and eery weird tales yet written about Conan-the tale of a barbarian adventurer, a woman pirate, and a weird roofed city inhabited by the most peculiar race of men ever spawned.