sentences:  Chronologically, "The Return of Conan" falls between Howard's novel "The Hour of the Dragon" (also known as "Conan the Conqueror"), and the four short stories collected as "Conan of Aquilonia".In the both hardcover Gnome Press edition and the paperback Lancer/Ace edition of the Conan stories, "The Return of Conan" follows Robert E. Howard's novel "Conan the Conqueror"; it is the final volume chronologically in the Gnome edition (though one additional volume, "Tales of Conan", contains stories issued out of sequence), while in the Lancer/Ace edition it is followed by the short stories collected as "Conan of Aquilonia".Everett F. Bleiler reported that the novel was "not very good."