The Lost Race

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Britain, in the days before Rome. A young Briton riding alone through the forest is ambushed, struck down from behind and carried off underground into a maze of caves lit by torches.

His captors are small, dark, misshapen men who speak a language older than any he knows, and they intend to kill him. Their chief, impossibly ancient, decides first to tell him why. It is the story of a people who held this island before the Celts came: who were hunted into the hills, into the barrows and at last beneath the earth, where they became the fairies, goblins and little people of legend, and where they have been nursing their hatred ever since.

First published in Weird Tales in 1927, The Lost Race was one of Robert E. Howard’s earliest professional sales and the first appearance of the Pictish theme that runs through his work. It is a vivid fusion of historical adventure and weird horror from the creator of Conan the Barbarian.

Listen to the complete, unabridged audiobook of this classic pulp tale.