The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature
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O Sleeper, Awake!
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A Black Wind Blows
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The Cliffs Reel
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'From What Hell Have You Crawled?'
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The Haunter of the Pits
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The Thrust of a Knife
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The Rending of the Veil
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Dying Embers
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'It is the King or His Ghost!'
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A Coin from Acheron
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Swords of the South
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The Fang of the Dragon
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'A Ghost Out of the Past'
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The Black Hand of Set
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The Return of the Corsair
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Black-Walled Khemi
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'He Has Slain the Sacred Son of Set!'
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'I Am the Woman Who Never Died'
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In the Hall of the Dead
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Out of the Dust Shall Acheron Arise
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Drums of Peril
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The Road to Acheron
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About the author
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23. Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres. Although a Conan novel was nearly published in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime. The main outlet for his stories was the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
