Rogues in the House
| "Rogues in the House" | |||
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| Short story by Robert E. Howard | |||
| Text available at Wikisource | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre | Fantasy | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | Weird Tales | ||
| Publication type | Pulp magazine | ||
| Publisher | Rural Publishing Corporation | ||
| Publication date | January 1934 | ||
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| Series | Conan the Cimmerian | ||
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"Rogues in the House" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. It is set in the fictional Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the struggle between two powerful men fighting for control of a city-state. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published. It features a fight between Conan and an intelligent ape-like hominid.