# The Hour of the Gate

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- Book: [The Hour of the Gate](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-dean-foster/the-hour-of-the-gate) ([The Hour of the Gate.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-dean-foster/the-hour-of-the-gate.md))
- Authors: [Alan Dean Foster](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-dean-foster)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7513-165-1
- Published: 2012-08-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

THE DREAD RETURNS Jon Meriweather, plucked from his own world to a place where animals walk, talk and cast spells, is pitted once more against a deadly foe. Now he and his strange fellowship must embark on a journey from which none has survived. His way lies down the treacherous river that winds through the subterranean lair of Massaurath, Mother of Nightmares, across Helldrink through a tunnel of cold flame to the centre of the Earth...