Also published as: The Hour of the Dragon

Author: Robert E. Howard Year: 1936 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Classic Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781434102669 1434102661

The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a 1935 fantasy novel written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was the last Conan story published before Howard's suicide although not the last to be written. The plot is a loosely based melange of motifs from previous Conan short stories, most notably "The Scarlet Citadel", with which it shares an almost identical storyline. It takes place when Conan is about forty-five, during his reign as King of Aquilonia, and follows 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. Similar books: Orlando by Virginia Woolf The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard The Golden Ass by Apuleius Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck Beowulf by Unknown Wise Children by Angela Carter Phantastes by George MacDonald The Charwoman's Shadow by Lord Dunsany Red Nails by Robert E. Howard Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes The Howard Collector by Robert E. Howard The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris Walpurgisnacht by Gustav Meyrink The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty The Well at the World's End by William Morris Marchers of Valhalla by Robert E. Howard