Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | 01 - O Sleeper Awake! | 23:13 |
02 | 02 - A Black Wind Blows | 21:59 |
03 | 03 - The Cliffs Reel | 20:46 |
04 | 04 - From What Hell Have You Crawled? | 21:16 |
05 | 05 - The Haunter of the Pits | 21:14 |
06 | 06 - The Thrust of the Knife | 27:04 |
07 | 07 - The Rending of the Veil | 31:45 |
08 | 08 - Dying Embers | 22:09 |
09 | 09 - It Is the King or His Ghost! | 23:18 |
10 | 10 - A Coin from Acheron | 27:49 |
11 | 11 - Swords of the South | 19:31 |
12 | 12 - The Fang of the Dragon | 30:12 |
13 | 13 - A Ghost Out of the Past | 18:38 |
14 | 14 - The Black Hand of Set | 20:19 |
15 | 15 - The Return of the Corsair | 14:25 |
16 | 16 - Black-Walled Khemi | 11:38 |
17 | 17 - He Has Slain the Sacred Son of Set! | 18:57 |
18 | 18 - I Am the Woman Who Never Died | 19:50 |
19 | 19 - In the Hall of the Dead | 20:57 |
20 | 20 - Out of the Dust Shall Acheron Rise | 23:12 |
21 | 21 - Drums of Peril | 32:02 |
22 | 22 - The Road to Acheron | 30:29 |
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Notes & Credits
Read by: Mark Nelson
Book Coordinator: Mark Nelson
Meta Coordinator: Annise
Proof Listener: DaveC
Artwork
Cover: Cover of Weird Tales, December 1935, by Margaret Brundage (1900-1976)
Inset: Frame of a 90-second video of "Drawing Conan"
Inset: Photograph of Robert E. Howard taken in 1934, author unknown.
Recordings
These recordings were made using the author’s original published work, which is in the public domain. The readings were recorded by members and volunteers of Librivox.org, which has generously made the recordings available to the public domain. The audio files have been edited and engineered using professional audio tools for maximum sonic quality. While Librivox condones the sale and distribution of these recordings, it is not associated with the management or operations of MP3 Audiobook Classics.
The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is the longest and one of the last of the Robert E. Howard fantasy novels featuring Conan the Cimmerian, also known as Conan the Barbarian. In many ways it is a distillation of the motifs and themes common to the Conan canon. We begin with a middle-aged Conan reigning as King of Aquilonia and prey to a group of conspirators who seek to depose him and restore the throne to Vaerius, heir of his predecessor, Numedides. With the aid of the ancient sorcerer Xaltotun they overcome the Aquilonian army and capture Conan. While he awaits execution a sympathetic slave girl, Zenobia, risks her life to set him free. He sets out on an arduous quest to defeat the wizard and regain his throne, vowing to make Zenobia his queen. The story was serialized in five issues of pulp magazine Weird Tales from December 1936 – April 1936 before appearing book form in 1950. Critic Groff Conklin praised the book as “a sanguinary combination of sorcery, skulduggery, and swordplay.”
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0701236969214 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923537 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) |
Year | 1935 |
Recording | |
Read by | Mark Nelson |
Length | 8 hours and 21 minutes |
Type of Reading | Solo |
The Hour of the Dragon
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Product Code: DB-1203
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