So even though Howard had never killed a panther with a spear, it was easy for him to imagine what that would be like. Remember, too, that Howard was a student of history, and he read about the subject extensively. Howard has a famous quote that Conan was an amalgam of various gambler, oil field roughnecks, boxers, etc. Do we know how and when he came up with this prehistoric character? It seems so remote from the kind of life he would have led? Despite all of that, he wrote over 300 short stories and around 700 poems in a ten-year period. Lovecraft, and some of those letters are thirty pages long. He also wrote letters to his friends and correspondents, including H.P. It wasn’t uncommon for him to put in a twelve-hour day at the typewriter, working on stories and poems. Like most pulp writers, Howard was serious about his craft. Howard only lived till he was 30, yet he created a new genre before he committed suicide. Howard, published by MonkeyBrain Books 2006
Mark Finn is the author of Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. talked to Mark Finn, Howard’s biographer, in order to understand the continuing attraction of the muscular barbarian.
Howard, this primordial force becomes a driver of history, affecting the rise and fall of civilizations. In Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan (1912), man stripped of his culture became a realistic hero. In novels like The Jungle Book (1894), the late victorian writer Rudyard Kipling stripped away the trappings of civilization from man. Howard (1906-1936) created a sophisticated sword and sandal fantasy more than decade before Tolkien published his stories. Delay illustration for the Conan story “Red Nails”.
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