The Hour of the Dragon

by Robert E. Howard

Credits: Robert E. Howard (author)

Summary

The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard's suicide, although not the last to be written. The novel was first published in serial form in the December 1935 through April 1936 issues of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The first book edition was published by Gnome Press in hardcover in 1950. The Gnome Press edition retitled the story Conan the Conqueror, a title retained by all subsequent editions until 1977, when the original title was restored in an edition published by Berkley/Putnam. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

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Chapters (22)

  1. 1. O Sleeper, Awake!
  2. 2. A Black Wind Blows
  3. 3. The Cliffs Reel
  4. 4. 'From What Hell Have You Crawled?'
  5. 5. The Haunter of the Pits
  6. 6. The Thrust of a Knife
  7. 7. The Rending of the Veil
  8. 8. Dying Embers
  9. 9. Chapter 9
  10. 10. A Coin from Acheron
  11. 11. Swords of the South
  12. 12. The Fang of the Dragon
  13. 13. 'A Ghost Out of the Past'
  14. 14. The Black Hand of Set
  15. 15. The Return of the Corsair
  16. 16. Black-Walled Khemi
  17. 17. 'He Has Slain the Sacred Son of Set!'
  18. 18. 'I Am the Woman Who Never Died'
  19. 19. In the Hall of the Dead
  20. 20. Out of the Dust Shall Acheron Arise
  21. 21. Drums of Peril
  22. 22. The Road to Acheron

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