In Queen of the Black Coast, Conan joins with Belit, the magnificent pirate queen, whose fathers were the kings of Askalon! There is a frightening conflict with a monster winged ape before the sorrowful passing of the Queen of the Black Coast. She who belonged to the sea; to its everlasting mystery he returned her. Queen of the Black Coast also contains a second Conan story—The Vale of Lost Women, in which the Cimmerian rescues the girl Livia from her barbarous captors.