The Hour of the Dragon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Hour of the Dragon, credited to Robert E. Howard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard. Read by Mark Nelson The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring 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. The novel was first published in serial form in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1935 through 1936. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Hour of the Dragon
• Author credits: Robert E. Howard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 8:21:23

Catalogue topics

• fantasy
• Conan
• Robert E. Howard

Track guide

1. 01 - O Sleeper, Awake! — 23:18
2. 02 - A Black Wind Blows — 22:01
3. 03 - The Cliffs Reel — 20:47
4. 04 - From What Hell Have You Crawled? — 21:17
5. 05 - The Haunter of the Pits — 21:15
6. 06 - The Thrust of the Knife — 27:05
7. 07 - The Rending of the Veil — 31:52
8. 08 - Dying Embers — 22:10
9. 09 - It Is the King or His Ghost! — 23:19
10. 10 - A Coin from Acheron — 27:50
11. 11 - Swords of the South — 19:32
12. 12 - The Fang of the Dragon — 30:14
13. 13 - A Ghost Out of the Past — 18:40
14. 14 - The Black Hand of Set — 20:20
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! — 18:59
18. 18 - I Am the Woman Who Never Died — 19:51
19. 19 - In the Hall of the Dead — 20:58
20. 20 - Out of the Dust Shall Acheron Rise — 23:14
21. 21 - Drums of Peril — 32:10
22. 22 - The Road to Acheron — 30:37

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