![]() ![]() ![]() Some of Howard’s best-known charactersSolomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among themroam the forbidding locales of the author’s fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa. Howard's early death-he shot himself when his mother died-meant that pious friends like L Sprague de Camp finished a number of unpublished stories, and then, as with H P Lovecraft, the Howard mythos became something which endlessly newer writers have quarried - Poul Anderson and Robert Jordan. Howard’s greatest horror tales, all in their original, definitive versions. His Conan stories feature a young barbarian warrior who carves himself a kingdom and rules with a degree of wisdom and justice they are notable for their violent energy-in one of the films with Arnold Schwarzeneggar there is a moment when Conan, crucified by an enemy, bites out the throat of a vulture that gets too close too soon, and it is worth pointing out that this, unlike most of the film, is pure unadulterated Howard. ![]() ![]() Howard are straightforward Westerns or historical romance his contribution to the history of fantasy was to realize that setting his stories of ruthless hard men in Atlantis or a mythical age shortly after its fall enabled him to write without the trammels of historical accuracy. Some of the pulp fiction of the short-lived Texan Robert E. The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (2002) aka Conan of Cimmeria: 1932-1933 2. ![]()
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