# III: The Horror in the Jungle explained — Conan Stories

> Chapter companion for Conan Stories by Robert E. Howard.

## What happens

Conan awakens from a lotus-induced dream that reveals the ancient history of a fallen winged race and their transformation into bestial horrors. He finds N'Gora driven mad and attacks him, forcing Conan to kill him in self-defense. Returning to the river, he discovers his entire crew slaughtered and Bêlit hanged from her own galley's yardarm.

## Themes in this chapter

### Supernatural and Ancient Evil

The chapter reveals the ancient winged race's fall into demonic perversion and the lingering horror that haunts the jungle.

### Survival and Individualism

Conan must rely on his own strength and instincts to survive the supernatural threat and the aftermath of the massacre.

## Character check-ins

### Conan

Kills the maddened N'Gora and discovers the massacre of his crew and Bêlit's death.

### N'Gora

Driven mad by a supernatural horror, attacks Conan and is slain.

### Bêlit

Found hanged from the yardarm of her galley, dead.

## Key lines

> first Conan thought it to be a great black gorilla. Then he saw that it was a giant black man that crouched apelike, long arms dangling, froth dripping from the loose lips.

Conan initially mistook the figure for a large gorilla but realized it was a huge black man in a crouched, animalistic posture, drooling.

_Describes the maddened N'Gora's appearance._

> Speechless, the Cimmerian looked on the Queen of the Black Coast as she hung from the yardarm of her own galley. Between the yard and her white throat stretched a line of crimson clots that shone like blood in the gray light.

Conan silently saw Bêlit hanging from her ship's yardarm, a red line around her throat glistening in the dim light.

_Reveals Bêlit's death._

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