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The Hour of the Dragon is Robert E. Howard's only full length novel about Conan, and possibly his best work.
Conan is King in this illustrated classic tale of Sword and Sorcery, and a group of conspirators are plotting against him. Once captured, Conan finds himself slated for execution until a slave girl risks her life to free him. Will he escape? Will he survive? Or is this the end of the barbarian King?
"Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks." ~ Stephen King
"Behind Howard's stories lurks a dark poetry, and the timeless truth of dreams. That is why these tales have survived. They remain a fitting heritage of the poet and dreamer who was Robert E. Howard." ~ Robert Bloch
"For stark, living fear... what other writer is even in the running with Robert E. Howard?" ~ H. P. Lovecraft
"Howard was a true storyteller-one of the first, and certainly among the best, you'll find in heroic fantasy. If you've never read him before, you're in for a real treat." ~ Charles de Lint
"With the existential anti-hero of Conan, Howard was using the romantic fiction of the Distant Past to draw a portrait of Twentieth Century Man -- red of hand and dark of eye, pursued by demons both real and imagined, who worships a god who refuses to help those who pray to it, and is simply doing whatever it takes to get by, whether its stealing jewels, splitting a guard's skull, skewering a wizard, or usurping a kingdom. You can quest until the cows come home, with allegory out the ying-yang, and still never get any more profound than that." ~ Nancy A. Collins
"The best pulp fantasy writer was Robert E. Howard. He painted in about the broadest strokes imaginable. A mass of glimmering black for the menace, and ice blue cascade for the hero, between them a swath of crimson for battle, passion, blood--and that was the picture, or story, rather, except where a vivid detail might chance to spring to life, or a swift thought-arabesque be added." ~ Fritz Leiber
There will only ever be one Robert E. Howard. ~ Jeff Mariotte
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