# Duar the Accursed, by Clifford Ball

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Podcast: [Golden Age Fiction](https://stenobird.com/podcast/golden-age-fiction-7113362)
Published: 2026-02-01T22:00:50+00:00
Episode link: https://redcircle.com/shows/43f90e90-8c8e-40b4-9c4c-7d3d9ce904e3/episodes/0ce7d283-9c3c-4af7-9390-e17907bcfaf3
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## Resource

A surprizing tale about the Black Tower and the intrusion therein of a barbarian adventurer—a strange weird tale of the love of a queen for her enemy. "Duar the Accursed" appeared in the May 1937 issue of "Weird Tales" on pages 541 to 553. Ball was especially enamored of Robert E Howard's Conan stories. The setting for Duar the Accursed is similar to Howard’s Hyborian Age. ----- Clifford Nankivell Ball (January 24, 1908, New York, New York – January 1947, Baltimore, Maryland) was an American fantasy writer whose primary distinction was having been one of the earliest post-Howard writers in the sword and sorcery subgenre of fantasy. He wrote as Clifford Ball. ----- If there's a story you'd like me to narrate, or a genre you'd like me to include more of, please let me know at goldenagefiction@proton.me . ----- Music : "Mesmerizing Galaxy" Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com ). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .

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