We will talk about the times when Conan was a member of a gang of grave thieves that devastated the tombs of the ancient Shemites. During a daring robbery of the royal mausoleum, Conan and his comrades were ambushed. Prison and death awaited those who desecrated the ashes. Three women tried to help Conan: a street dancer, a dowager queen and a princess who rebelled against her, but their efforts were in vain. To get out of prison, Conan had to fight with the Lord of the Dead himself, and the stake in this battle was not only the life of the barbarian, but the fate of the entire Hyborian world. The novel is a continuation of the short story by L. Sprague de Camp, B. Nyberg “The Star of the Chorale”