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La valle delle donne perdute
Titolo originale	The Vale of Lost Women
Genere	Racconto
Lingua originale	inglese
Protagonisti	Conan
Coprotagonisti	Livia
Serie	Ciclo di Conan il Barbaro

"The Vale of Lost Women" is a fantasy short story by American author Robert E. Howard. It is one of his original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian that was not published during his lifetime. The Magazine of Horror first published the story in its Spring, 1967 issue. It was republished in the collection Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1967). It has also been republished in the collections The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One (1932-1933) (Del Rey, 2003). Set in the fictional Hyborian Age, "The Vale of Lost Women" details Conan's rescue of a female Ophirean captive from the Bakalah tribe, on the (apparent) condition that he will receive sexual favors in return for his generosity.

Storia editoriale

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Like "The Frost-Giant's Daughter," the plot is minimal and overshadowed by Howard's prose; nevertheless, the story is considered memorable. The entire story is told from Livia's point of view, and there is again a dream-like quality to much of it. Also, the creature from the stars which attacks Livia in the strange valley was intended to be from the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, an intellectual correspondent of Howard.

Howard Andrew Jones: Nel saggio che conclude il volume, Genesi Hyboriana, lo studioso di Robert E. Howard, Patrice Louinet, fornisce quello che deve essere il probabile background di questa storia, raccontando come Howard avesse sviluppato un crescente interesse per i racconti relativi al Sudovest americano. A quanto pare, più o meno nel periodo in cui ha scritto questo racconto, aveva cominciato uno scambio di storie con lo scrittore August Derleth, che gli aveva narrato la vicenda del rapimento di Cynthia Ana Parker da parte dei Comanche. Louinet ipotizza che quella storia sia stata la fonte di ispirazione per questo racconto. La scorsa settimana ho scritto che La Valle era stata rifiutata come storia di Conan, ma in realtà non esiste nessuna prova documentale che essa sia mai stata presentata a un editore. È possibile che lo stesso Howard abbia compreso che non era accettabile e non l’abbia mai proposta per la pubblicazione.

Bill: La cosa non mi sorprende.

Critica

James Van Hise, reviewing "The Vale of Lost Women", stated ""The Vale of Lost Women" is a minor effort", and added "it has more the air of a Conan pastiche than it does of Howard's more polished and well thought out tales."

Altri media

Marvel Comics' 1970s Conan the Barbarian comic spent a long time detailing and adding to Conan's adventures on the Black Coast. Conan joins the Bamulas in #101, with the "Vale of Lost Women" finally adapted in #104. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/conan-the-barbarian-104-vale-of-lost-women/4000-19916/

Bibliografia

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