As he was dying Grimlan begged Conrad not to follow the instructions but to burn the envelope. Conrad was to follow these instructions no matter how much Grimlan might change his mind. Years earlier Grimlan had made Conrad swear to follow the instructions in a sealed envelope after his death. Conrad has just left the side of John Grimlan, who has died in a most unpleasant manner. Kirowan is awakened by Conrad in the middle of the night. In “Dig Me No Grave”, the story is narrated by Kirowan, an approach Howard abandoned for the later stories, in which he kept the first person perspective but had an unnamed narrator. Yog-Sothoth is mentioned in passing in this one. These stories are part of Howard’s Mythos tales. They were experts on the occult, and seem to be Howard’s attempt to try his hand at the occult detective yarn.
But there were other characters who appeared in multiple stories, and two of these were John Conrad and a man simply called Kirowan. In more recent years, he’s also gotten recognition for El Borak, Sailor Steve Costigan, and Breckenridge Elkins. Howard is best known for the series characters Solomon Kane, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, and Conan of Cimmeria. Today’s story is a shift away from the weird westerns we’ve looked at the last two days.
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