 October is Famous Monsters Month at 50th Street Studios. Join me and my co-hosts at our Twitch channel for classic monster double features every Saturday evening this month. See you there. Greetings. Welcome to 30 Second Sci-Fi. I'm Keith. I'm going to talk this week about Red Nails by Robert E. Howard. I was just looking on Wikipedia. This is apparently the last Conan story that Robert E. Howard wrote. I did not know that. Anyway, it's one of the most famous Conan stories. I've seen the title referred to all of my life. Didn't know what exactly it was referring to. But now I've read it and I wasn't terribly impressed with it. It's about Conan and a badass warrior woman named Valeria who have chased each other far to the south of some unknown jungle country. They fight a dinosaur and then they come across a lost city, a vast lost city that its origins have been lost to time. Nobody knows who built it or why. They start exploring it because the walls are covered with jewels and they're wondering how could there be all these jewels and nobody knows. Nobody's tried to steal them. It becomes apparent after a while that there are people in the city. They live underground and they tend to eliminate everybody who comes in there. Well, Conan and Valeria, they get at the secrets of the society. There's two different factions living down there picking each other off and there's almost nobody left. There are monsters living in the lowest levels. It's just more of what you would expect. Again, I wasn't crazy about it. Thank you for watching this week. Please come back next week for another science fiction book review. And please become a sponsor. Follow the link on screen and in the description below where you can make a monthly pledge or a one-time donation to help me make more videos.