A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.

Conan the Barbarian ( also known as Conan the Cimmerian ) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films ( including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs ( cartoon and live-action ), video games, role-playing games and other media.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

Conan is a Cimmerian.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

In the tales no human is ever described as stronger than Conan, although several are mentioned as taller ( such as the strangler Baal-pteor ) or of larger bulk.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

Although Conan is muscular, Howard frequently compares his agility and way of moving to that of a panther ( see, for instance, " Jewels of Gwahlur ", " Beyond the Black River " or " Rogues in the House ").

In addition, Conan speaks many languages, including advanced reading and writing abilities: in certain stories, he is able to recognize, or even decipher, certain ancient or secret signs and writings ; for example, in " Jewels of Gwahlur " Howard states, " In his roaming about the world the giant adventurer had picked up a wide smattering of knowledge, particularly including the speaking and reading of many alien tongues.

In " A Witch Shall be Born ", Conan fights armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and crucified, and goes a night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to pull the nails from his feet, then to hoist himself into a horse's saddle and ride ten miles.

Conan is a formidable armed and unarmed combatant.

With his back to the wall Conan is capable of engaging and killing opponents by the score.

Conan is not superhuman, though ; he did need the providential help of Zelata's wolf to defeat four Nemedian soldiers in the story The Hour of the Dragon.

The Gnome edition also issued the first Conan story written by an author other than Howard — the final volume published, which is by Björn Nyberg and revised by de Camp.

* Joe Marek chronology — Joe Marek's chronology is limited to stories written ( or devised ) by Howard, though within that context it is essentially a revision of the Miller / Clark tradition to better reflect the internal evidence of the stories and avoid forcing Conan into what he perceives as a " mad dash " around the Hyborian world within timeframes too rapid to be credible.

Through marriage, Leary is a third cousin of talk show host Conan O ' Brien.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

The Hyborian Era of Conan and Kull is considered part of Earth-616 pre-recorded history.

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

Some claim he quietly faded into legend, far from fact, some tales claim that he was finally defeated in a savage battle with King Conan himself.

A Conan yarn, and the grimmest, bloodiest and most merciless story of the series so far.

Aquilonia somewhat surprisingly plays a peripheral role in most of the stories featuring adventures of Conan in his youth as they often take place far to the east and south of the Hyborian world.

It can be estimated, however, from the accumulation of Howard's descriptions of Conan in his formative years that his height ranges from 6 ' 8 to 6 ' 10 weighing 285 lb to 305 lb with extremely low body fat.

Additionally, many of the Conan stories by Howard, de Camp and Carter used geographical place names from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle.

In an attempt to provide a coherent timeline which fit the numerous adventures of Conan penned by Robert E. Howard and later writers, various " Conan chronologies " have been prepared by many people from the 1930s onward.

Author and prominent Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle learned of the photographs from the editor of the Spiritualists ' publication Light.

Conan Doyle contacted Gardner in June 1920 to determine the background to the photographs, and wrote to Elsie and her father to request permission from the latter to use the prints in his article.

Gardner and Conan Doyle sought a second expert opinion from the photographic company Kodak.

In America pulp magazines such as Weird Tales reprinted classic Gothic horror tales from the previous century, by such authors as Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton and printed new stories by modern authors featuring both traditional and new horrors.

They were led by the legendary king Conan Meriadoc and came from Britain.

In 1090 he reportedly threw a treacherous burgher named Conan Pilatus from the tower of Rouen ; the tower was known from then on as " Conan's Leap.

The importance of the longbow in English culture can be seen both in the legends of Robin Hood, where he was increasingly depicted as a master archer, and also in the " Song of the Bow ", a poem from The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

In August 2008 MK deputy leader, Conan Jenkin, expressed Mebyon Kernow's support for a proposed legal challenge by Cornwall 2000 over the UK Government's exclusion of the Cornish from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

Tor Royal Lane is a dead end road which leads down from the town to the site of the disused Whiteworks tin mine, about 3 km or 2 miles to the south-east, which overlooks Fox Tor Mires, the presumed site of the Grimpen Mire to be found in Arthur Conan Doyle's tale The Hound of the Baskervilles.

On May 4, 2007, Waits performed " Lucinda " and " Ain't Goin ' Down to the Well " from Orphans on the last show of a week Late Night with Conan O ' Brien spent in San Francisco.

On February 12, 2009, They Might Be Giants performed the song " The Mesopotamians " from the album on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

On April 10, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed the song " Seven " from the album on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

On 30 August 1889, Stoddart dined with Wilde and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Langham Hotel, and commissioned short novels from both men.

* In the Jeremy Brett – Edward Hardwicke The Return of Sherlock Holmes series episode " The Priory School ", mention is made that ancestors of the Duke of Holdernesse, apart from being cattle thieves, may have provided a member of the Hellfire Club ; however, no such reference is set forth in the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

They pursued Conan from Dol de Bretagne to Rennes, and finally to Dinan, where he surrendered the fortress's keys at the point of a lance.