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The Hour of the Dragon: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard Volume Four

Cosmos Books

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Publication date: September 2008

Introduction

Volume 4 in a series of 5 books. Meticulously restored text by renowned Howard scholar Paul Herman. This book includes material from the Wildside Press volume "Hours of the Dragon". 

Notes

Edited by Paul Herman. All the stories have been edited back to match the original pulp publications.

The Cosmos Books series is based off the Wildside Press series book Hours of the Dragon.

Introduction to "The Hyborian Age" is a letter to Donald A. Wolheim from H. P. Lovecraft that accompanyed the manuscript of "The Hyborian Age".

"The Hyborian Age" is cited as being reprinted from its original appearance in THE PHANTAGRAPH, as a three-part serial, February 1936, August 1936, and October-November 1936. However, this statement is in error. THE PHANTAGRAPH appearance is incomplete and only goes up to the time of Conan. This appearance of "The Hyborian Age" in this volume is complete.

Published by Dorchester Publishing Co. in collaboration with Wildside Press. "Cosmos Books" is the property of Wildside Press.

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Paperback
Publication date
September 2008
Pages
304
Publisher / imprint
Cosmos Books
Cover art
Ken Kelly
Illustrations
None

2 linked Howard works

8 contents entries

  1. "One-Shot" by Paul Herman (Introduction)
  2. One-Shot • essay by Paul Herman 7 · essay
  3. "The Hour of the Dragon"
  4. The Hour of the Dragon • [Conan] • (1977) • novel by Robert E. Howard (variant of Conan the Conqueror 1950) 9 · novel
  5. Introduction to "The Hyborian Age"
  6. The Hyborian Age • essay by unknown 275 · essay
  7. "The Hyborian Age"
  8. The Hyborian Age • [Conan] • (1938) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard 278 · story

Contributors

Paul Herman
Editor, Introduction author, Essayist
Ken Kelly
Cover artist

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Bibliographic source layer

Title
The Hour of the Dragon : The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 4
Publisher
Cosmos Books
Date
September 2008
Source file
hourofthedragon-cosmos.html

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Title
The Hour of the Dragon: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard Volume Four
Publisher
Cosmos Books
Date
September 2008
Source provenance

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