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Robert E. Howard
Biography
Some of the pulp fiction of the short-lived Texan Robert Ervin 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. 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 unadult erated Howard. 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L Sprague de Camp finished a number of unpublished stories, and then, as with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 more recently
Robert Jordan.
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