UNTITLED SYNOPSIS (The Hour of the Dragon).
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Various notes about The Hour of the Dragon.
The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard features his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard’s suicide, although not the last to be written.
Alternative title: ‘The Hour of the Dragon’.
The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard features his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard’s suicide, although not the last to be written.
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“Black Colossus” is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian. First published in Weird Tales magazine, June1935. It has since been published a numerous times in many languages. During the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age, Conan leads the army of Khoraja against an evil sorcerer named Natohk, “the Veiled One.”
This story formed part of the basis for the later Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon.
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Black Colossus was adapted by Roy Thomas for The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 2, Marvel Comics, October 1974. It was penciled by John Buscema and inked by Alfredo Alcala. On these pages, the story is presented with beautiful coloring by Noah Henson. Noah colored with Crayola crayons and assorted pencils directly onto an original, vintage publication of The Savage Sword of Conan.
“The Hyborian Age” is an essay by Robert E. Howard pertaining to the Hyborian Age, the fictional setting of his stories about Conan the Cimmerian. It was written in the 1930s but only partly published during Howard’s lifetime. Its purpose was to maintain consistency within his fictional setting.
The essay sets out in detail the major events of Howard’s pseudohistorical prehistory, both period before and after the time of the Conan stories. In describing the cataclysmic end of the Thurian Age, the period described in his Kull stories, Howard links both sequences of stories into one shared universe. The names he gives his various nations and peoples of the age borrow liberally from actual history and myth. The essay also sets out the racial and geographical heritage of these fictional entities, making them progenitors of modern nations. For example, Howard makes the Gaels descendants of his own Cimmerians.
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“The Beast From the Abyss” is a reflective and contemplative piece by Robert E. Howard, shared in a letter (#268) to H.P. Lovecraft, circa November 1933. It delves deep into Howard’s observations and philosophies regarding cats, their nature, and their relationship with humanity and the environment. Unlike a traditional short story with a linear narrative, this piece is more an essay that combines Howard’s personal experiences with a broader commentary on cats as symbols of primordial life and uncaring survivalism.
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Conan simply grew up in my mind a few years ago when I was stopping in a little border town on the lower Rio Grande. I did not create him by any conscious process. He simply stalked full grown out of oblivion and set me at work recording the saga of his adventures.
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Very interesting article by David Snow lifted from my old Conan website. Snow tells about his meeting with CPI (Conan Properties Incorporated) and the Baums. He and his buddy Charles Keegan (you have probably seen his Conan covers) met with Jack and Barbara Baum, who inherited the Howard Properties from Alla Ray Kuykendall Morris (1916-1995).