A review by ianbanks
The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard

5.0

"To Xaltotun, grand fakir of Nemedia: Dog of Acheron, I am returning to my kingdom, and I mean to hang your hide on a bramble.

"Conan"

Just brilliant. Not perfect, but close enough as to not matter a damn. This collection holds a few novellas and the only novel in the Conan canon, The Hour Of The Dragon, which is astonishingly good for all that it crams several trilogies worth of action into less than 200 pages.