"If you still love Constance Brand, for God's sake forget your hate and come to Ballville Manor as quickly as the devil can drive you. RICHARD BALLVILLE." That was all. It reached him by telegraph in that Far Western city where McGrath had resided since his return from Africa. He would have ignored it, but for the mention of Constance Brand… It was the name of one he thought dead for three years; the name of the only woman Bristol McGrath had ever loved. The Grisly Horror is the name of a pulp fiction novel by the author Robert E. Howard. Howard is famed for creating the character, 'Conan the Barbarian."