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The Hour of the Dragon

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writes in the afterword to the 1977 edition, "As such, the novel ranks as one of Howard's best pieces of writing -- and as one of the best novels ever written in the epic fantasy genre." ... "Howard is mature as a prose stylist -- varying his delivery from headlong fast-paced action, to passages of
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It was Howard's only full-length novel about Conan, and is considered by many to be one of his best works. It was originally written for British publisher Dennis Archer and was submitted to them in May 1934. Archer had turned down a collection of works in 1933 but made the suggestion of a novel.
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The book begins when Conan is about forty-two, during his reign as the King of Aquilonia, and deals with a plot by a group of conspirators to depose him in favor of Valerius, heir to Conan's predecessor Numedides, whom he had slain to gain the throne. To accomplish this they resort to necromancy,
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resurrecting Xaltotun, an ancient sorcerer from the almost forgotten evil empire of Acheron. With his aid, the Aquilonian army is defeated by the rival kingdom of Nemedia and occupied. Conan, captured, is slated for execution until a sympathetic slave girl, Zenobia, risks her life to free him.
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found the novel to have "real merit" considered as an imaginative work, but characterized Howard's writing as "only average laden with bombast". He recommended the book to "those who like to lean back and read with their minds closed".
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A number of amateur audiobook editions exist, including one narrated by Morgan Saletta (2009–2010) released as part of SF Audio's Second Book Challenge; and one narrated by Mark Nelson for
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Aquilonia has to live under a long and harrowing foreign occupation while Conan goes through a long hazardous quest, before he could finally come back and dispose of his foes.
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Conan's quest to retrieve the Heart of Ahriman in order to defeat the wizard and regain his throne takes him through all the kingdoms of the Hyborian Age.
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between the months of December 1935 to April 1936 (with chapter 20 being misprinted as chapter 21). It was first published in book form in hardcover by
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publication, discarding later edits. Later editions have generally followed Berkley and published under the original title.
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The story has also been adapted by publishing company Ablaze in their "Cimmerian" series of comics.
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The plot is loosely based on a melange of motifs from previous Conan short stories, most notably "
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This article is about a novel. For the collection that uses this title as its subtitle, see
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published an edition in 1989, with illustrations by Ezra Tucker, as volume XI of their
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The novel has been reissued a number of times since by various publishers, notably
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in hardcover in 1950. The Gnome Press edition retitled the story
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After his eventual triumph, he vows to make Zenobia his queen.
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before the novel could be printed and it was held by the
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The story was first published as a five-part serial in
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In 2012, Dark Horse began a new comic series called
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Index

Xaltotun
The Conan Chronicles, 2
Conan the Conqueror (disambiguation)

Robert E. Howard
John Forte
Conan the Barbarian
Sword & Sorcery
Gnome Press
1950
Hardback
fantasy
Robert E. Howard
sword and sorcery
Conan the Cimmerian
pulp magazine
Weird Tales
Gnome Press
Berkley/Putnam
The Scarlet Citadel

bankrupt
Official Receiver
Weird Tales
Gnome Press
Ace Books
tête-bêche
The Sword of Rhiannon
cover art
Norman Saunders

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