Through the thicket was thrust a head of nightmare and lunacy. The fruit growing on the slope is poisonous and the giant lizard is well fed and very patient. The two find the skeleton of some other poor soul who had been trapped there. The creature traps Conan and Valeria on a cliffside after killing their horses. The dragon of “Red Nails” has usually been rendered by artists as a dinosaur. Kenneth Gilbert did a similar scene back in 1926 with a mammoth. Howard could have easily stranded his hero and heroine up a cliff with a couple of lions. It has no supernatural connection, nor is it summoned or used by a sorcerer. Like the giant snake or the tower spider, it is pretty much a natural creature (if really big).
The Dragon from “Red Nails” is one of the more unusual monsters of the Hyborian Age.
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