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Title: The Hour of the Dragon: Conan by Robert Ervin, Howard ISBN: 0-399-12096-3 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1977 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $8.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: the finest hour
Comment: the best combat descriptions you can find. excellent at details, always interesting, suspenceful. man fights man. man fights....something darker. noone matches howard. the best at short stories. more psychological and realistic than Tolkien.

Rating: 4
Summary: The Definitive Conan Tale
Comment: If you've never picked up the original Conan as written by the incomparable Robert E. Howard, this is the book to read. For those who have never followed the continuity, Conan eventually becomes monarch of the kingdom of Aquilonia in his later years, and it is during this period which this story is set. It involves a plot by a resurrected sorceror to usurp Conan's kingdom, and follows a Conan as he attempts to reclaim his throne, on the way dealing with a savage vampire queen, killer mummies (in a fight scene I would swear was lifted by The Mummy), and a cadre of relentless assassins (in that scene, my favorite of the book, the leader of the seven scarlet robed killers address Conan when they finally catch up with him. There is a long solliloquy in which the assassin details the route they followed to find him - the many near misses, and the hardships they have endured...Conan, not impressed in the least, is already drawing his sword...). This is Conan and Howard at his bloody, barbaric best. Howard's prose is phenomenal. He is not only the grandfather of heroic fantasy, he is in my opinion, the king of action writing. Under his pen bloodletting becomes visceral poetry. The blue eyed black maned giant that is his most famous creation swaggers across these pages like a juggernaut -like Captain Ahab, Tarzan, and the Norse Sagas all rolled into one. Read this and know the wellspring that inspired all those great Frazetta and Jeff Jones paintings...