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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1237356" data-attributes="member: 1015">Actually, The Hour of the Dragon was the very last Conan story that Howard wrote before commiting suicide.  The only novel-length Conan story written by REH, he was hoping that he could use it to become a full-fledged novelist rather than a pulp-fiction writer.  However, the publishing house that was going to print the story went bankrupt before it could be printed, and The Hour of the Dragon was instead published as a multi-part serial in Weird Tales magazine.  The Hour of the Dragon would not be published in novel format until many years after Howard's death.The very first Conan story ever published was The Phoenix on the Sword, in which King Conan fights off an assassination within the walls of his own palace.  The story was actually a rewrite of an unsellable King Kull story called By This Axe I Rule.Back to the subject of spellcasters in Conan stories:  In The Scarlet Citadel, Conan recieves aid from a sorcerer named Pelias, although it only seemed to be an alliance of necessity... the two had a mutual enemy.</blockquote>