Just three stories this time, one of them being the only novel-length Conan story, "The Hour Of The Dragon". It's not really the magnificent epic you'd hope for, more like a series of short stories of Conan's adventures one after the another all bound together by a flimsy overlying theme. It's telling that Xaltotun, his so-called antagonist, only appears at the beginning and end of the book, disappearing completely during the middle, and is completely unaware what Conan is doing to topple him. This leaves the setting free for Conan to embark on his string of mini-adventures.

It's an interesting dilemma that Howard's writing is so good you could read it very fast and be swept along, but at the same time it's so good you want to read it slowly to fully savor it and not miss anything.