![]() ![]() 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early death-he shot himself when his mother died-meant that pious friends like L Sprague de Camp finished a number of unpublished stories, and then, as with H P Lovecraft, the Howard mythos became something which endlessly newer writers have quarried - Poul Anderson and Robert Jordan. 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. Robert E Howard The Garden of Fear 1945 Skull-Face 1946 Always Come Evening 1957 The Dark Man and Others 1963 The Pride of Bear Creek 1966. ![]() 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. Howards greatest writings, including novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories such as The Hour of the Dragon. ![]()
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