High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valeria is a pirate and adventuress (a member of The Red Brotherhood of pirates) in the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard`s Conan the Barbarian stories. She appears in Robert E. Howard`s Conan novella Red Nails, serialized in Weird Tales 28 1-3 (July, August/September October 1936). This was the last Conan story written by Howard, and published posthumously. The name was also used for Conan`s love interest in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.