‘The King’s Altar’
The Road to Acheron: Chapter 23 of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon
Reading from pages 245-54 of the DelRey edition
The opening illustration is a triumphal procession.
This impression must be limited to the use of the protagonist, so a discussion of the end of the next to the last chapter, the maneuvering of the day before the battle should be had.
Highlighted by an illustration of harried band of men surrounding their c…