Robert Ervin Howard 
The Hour of the Dragon 

The Hour of the Dragon Robert Ervin Howard — 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

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Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote ‘over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion’ and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of ‘a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror.’He is well known for having created in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.