sentences:  Before dropping from sight, Ball contributed six short stories to the pulp magazine "Weird Tales" during its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s under the editorships of Farnsworth Wright and Dorothy McIlwraith.The setting of the first three is vaguely like Howard's Hyborian Age of warring kingdoms, and features the barbarian adventurers Duar, an amnesiac king protected by a guardian sprite, and Rald, a thief and mercenary.The remaining stories are more conventional fantasies.