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A Nontraditional Approach to the Posthumous Collaborations of de Camp and Howard
Robert E. Howard
In 1955, L. Sprague de Camp published a posthumous collaboration with Robert E. Howard, Tales of Conan, consisting of four non-Conan stories written by Howard that were rewritten by de Camp as Conan stories. This was followed by Conan the Adventurer in 1966 which contained 3 stories by Howard (edited by de Camp) and…
Howards End and Social Class
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Social Class
In the case of Leonard Bass who was a significantly poor man, eating beef tongue and pineapple jelly for dinner, (Forester 41 ) and running after Miss Schlemiel when she accidental took his umbrella at the concert (Forester 27), he was always trying to achieve higher social standing by associating himself with wealthy people at…
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin Analysis
Robert E. Howard
In the book Black like me John Howard Griffin points out that the Negro doesn’t understand the white any more than the white understands the Negro. Specific examples of the book show that both colors were racist to each other.The whites are especially racist with the blacks as seen while Griffin was hitchhiking through Mississippi….
Robert E. Howard’s Arkham
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By the way, I recently took the liberty of using your mythical “Arkham” in a single-stanza rhyme which Mr. Wright accepted for Weird Tales, and which fell far short of doing justice to it’s subject. Here it is: Arkham. Drowsy and dull with age the houses blink On aimless streets the rat-gnawed years forget— But…
Michael Howard and the necessity of Studying War
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Study
War
“Michael Howard’s ‘War and the Liberal Conscience’ is as persuasive a book could be about the necessity of studying war.” How far would you agree with this statement? In his book, Michael Howard describes what liberal thinkers have expressed about the entity of war in different periods in history. Chronologically, he has tried to persuade…
Almuric – One Wild, Wild Planet
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The unique Robert E. Howard tried his hand at quite a few fiction genres, from detective stories to oriental adventure to his humorous westerns about Breck Elkins. He virtually invented heroic fantasy featuring mighty roughneck barbarians, of course, as exemplified by Conan. His historical adventures with the characters Turlogh Dubh O’Brien and Cormac Fitzgeoffrey (that…
I Put a Spell on You: Robert E. Howard’s Conjure and Voodoo Stories
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He had thought of the South as a sunny, lazy land washed by soft breezes laden with spice and warm blossoms, where life ran tranquilly to the rhythm of black folk singing in sun-bathed cottonfields. But now he had discovered another, unsuspected side – a dark, brooding, fear-haunted side… — “Pigeons from Hell,” The Horror…
The Satanic Robert E. Howard, Part 3
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The wings of Melek Taus hover over the world, the winds whisper of revolt, anarchy, war and red ruin for all the sons of men. (CL2.116) The Yazidis (also given as Yezidis, and Yezidees) are a largely Kurdish people in the Middle East, whose religion reveres Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel; similarities with Abrahamic tales…
Legal Practice: The Dustin Soldano v. Howard O’Daniels
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The Dustin Soldano v. Howard O’Daniels case models the common dispute between negligence and a party’s responsibility in an event. Likewise, chapter 1 of the Legal Environment textbook features Kuehn v. Pub Zone, a case that demonstrates a different scenario but the same battle of negligence and liability. The commonalities between the two cases support…
Another Earl Addendum
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In my previous posts (here and here), there were several unanswered questions. Now, thanks to a few city directories, I can fill in some of the blanks regarding Robert E. Howard’s cousin, Earl Lee Comer. As we have seen, Comer received training as a draftsman for part of his World War I enlistment. Following his…
born | January 22, 1906, Peaster, TX |
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died | June 11, 1936, Cross Plains, TX |
description | Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in Texas. |
books | The Hour of the Dragon 1950, Kull 1967, The Shadow Kingdom 1929 |
movies | Conan the Barbarian 1982, Conan the Destroyer 1984, Red Sonja 1985 |
information | Short biography of Robert E. HowardRobert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.Howard was born and raised in Peaster, Texas, and spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, an interest that would influence much of his later work.After high school, Howard worked as a janitor and reporter for a local newspaper, but he dreamed of being a writer. When he was 23, he sold his first story, “Spear and Fang”, to Weird Tales magazine. Over the next few years, he wrote dozens of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines.Howard’s most famous and enduring creation was Conan the Barbarian, a sword-wielding warrior from the Hyborian Age, a fictional time and place. Howard wrote several stories featuring Conan, and the character proved so popular that he was adapted for comics, movies, television, and other media.In addition to Conan, Howard created other memorable characters, including Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and Kull of Atlantis. He also wrote historical fiction, horror, detective stories, and Westerns. His work was influential in the development of the sword and sorcery and heroic fantasy genres, and he is sometimes credited with inventing the pulp fantasy genre.Howard’s tragic early death at the age of 30 cut short a promising career, but his work has continued to be popular and influential. General Essay Structure for this Topic
Important informationInfluenced by: H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle Short stories: The Phoenix on the Sword, Queen of the Black Coast, The Tower of the Elephant Parents: Isaac Mordecai Howard, Hester Jane Ervin Howard |
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