The Hour of the Dragon

"The Hour of the Dragon" by Robert E. Howard is a fantasy novel first published serially from December 1935 to April 1936. King Conan of Aquilonia faces his greatest challenge when conspirators resurrect an ancient sorcerer to overthrow him. Defeated, captured, and freed by a brave slave girl, Conan must undertake a perilous quest across the Hyborian Age to reclaim his throne. This sword and sorcery epic combines necromancy, foreign occupation, and adventure in Howard's only full-length Conan novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)