The Devil in Iron

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"The Devil in Iron" is a Conan the Barbarian story by Robert E Howard. First published in August, 1934.

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Tropes included

• Action Prologue: The fisherman breaking into the temple
• The Bait: Octavia
• Barbarian Tribe: Conan is leading them
• Blue Blood: Octavia
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Octavia is threatened with this to make her act as the bait.
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: The fisherman rouses the evil by his curiosity
• Deadly Decadent Court: the city that appears; what Octavia fled
• Distressed Damsel: Octavia
• Faux Death: He finds people rousing from it.
• Femme Fatale: Octavia was ordered into it.
• Human Sacrifice: In the back story
• Intro-Only Point of View: the fisherman dies and so exits the story
• Made a Slave: Octavia's Backstory
• Necromancer: Who roused the city
• Rescue Sex: Conan is surprised that Octavia rejects this and has to seduce her.
• Sealed Evil in A Can: The Necromancer
• Temple of Doom: Where the trouble was unleashed
• This Was His True Form
• Thunderbolt Iron: Enabled a slave revolt
• Wait Here: Conan tries this on Octavia