"twenty issues in three years, before ceasing publication in 2008. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian, has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Howard remains a highly read author, with his best work endlessly reprinted. He has been compared to other American masters of the weird, gloomy, and spectral, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Jack London. Legacy of Robert E. Howard Robert E. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian, has a pop-culture"
"Robert E. Howard"" (1983), the first major independent biography of Howard. The Miscast Barbarian The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a biography by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover and trade paperback in 1975 by Gerry de la Ree. The work is an examination of Robert E. Howard, the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian. The book is an expansion of de Camp's article ""The Miscast Barbarian"", which appeared in the magazine ""Fantastic"" in June, 1971. Later, in collaboration with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin, he"
"El Borak El Borak, otherwise known as Francis Xavier Gordon, is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. Gordon was a Texan gunfighter from El Paso who had travelled the world and settled in Afghanistan. He is known in Asia for his exploits in that continent. The character was originally created when Howard was only ten years old but he did not see print until ""The Daughter of Erlik Khan"" in the December 1934 issue of ""Top-Notch"". He is likely to have been inspired by real people such as Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, ""Chinese"" Gordon and Lawrence of"
"The Cairn on the Headland ""The Cairn on the Headland"" is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, with elements of fantasy and horror. As often in Howard stories, there is a link to the Cthulhu Mythos, in this case mixed also with elements of both Norse Mythology and Catholic Christianity. It has a rather convoluted history, being in effect an adaptation of ""Spears of Clontarf"" - a historical fiction story by Howard focusing on the Battle of Clontarf (1014) and featuring Turlogh Dubh O'Brien or Black Turlogh, a fictional 11th Century Irishman created by Howard. His other"
"The Miscast Barbarian The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a biography by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover and trade paperback in 1975 by Gerry de la Ree. The work is an examination of Robert E. Howard, the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian. The book is an expansion of de Camp's article ""The Miscast Barbarian"", which appeared in the magazine ""Fantastic"" in June, 1971. Later, in collaboration with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin, he expanded the text again, into ""Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of"
"and it works. The Cairn on the Headland ""The Cairn on the Headland"" is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, with elements of fantasy and horror. As often in Howard stories, there is a link to the Cthulhu Mythos, in this case mixed also with elements of both Norse Mythology and Catholic Christianity. It has a rather convoluted history, being in effect an adaptation of ""Spears of Clontarf"" - a historical fiction story by Howard focusing on the Battle of Clontarf (1014) and featuring Turlogh Dubh O'Brien or Black Turlogh, a fictional 11th Century Irishman created by"
"Breckinridge Elkins Breckinridge Elkins is a fictional character created by pulp writer Robert E. Howard. He was featured in twenty-six humorous Western short stories, most of which originally appeared in the pages of ""Action Stories"" between 1934 and 1937, as well as the novel ""A Gent from Bear Creek"". ""Breck"" Elkins is a hillbilly from Bear Creek, a fictional location in the Humboldt Mountains of Nevada. He is ""mighty of stature and small of brain""—a physically huge and imposing figure, and his reputation as a short-tempered and ferocious fighter often precedes him throughout the Southwest. He is usually found in"
"Zumal Khan..."" El Borak El Borak, otherwise known as Francis Xavier Gordon, is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. Gordon was a Texan gunfighter from El Paso who had travelled the world and settled in Afghanistan. He is known in Asia for his exploits in that continent. The character was originally created when Howard was only ten years old but he did not see print until ""The Daughter of Erlik Khan"" in the December 1934 issue of ""Top-Notch"". He is likely to have been inspired by real people such as Richard Francis Burton, John Nicholson, ""Chinese"" Gordon and"
"Kirby O'Donnell Kirby O'Donnell is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is an American treasure hunter in early-twentieth century Afghanistan disguised as a Kurdish merchant, ""Ali el Ghazi"". Howard only wrote three stories about O'Donnell, one of which was not published within his lifetime. O'Donnell has, like many Howard characters, the sterotypical ""Black Irish"" combination of black hair and blue eyes. He has a lithe but powerful physique, relying more on agility and wits than strength. Kirby O'Donnell is similar to another of Howard's characters, El Borak, in many ways. However, O'Donnell seeks hidden treasures in all"
"adapted by Marvel as a Conan and Red Sonja story of the same title in ""Conan the Barbarian"" #23 (February 1973). Additionally, the 1985 film ""Red Sonja"", which took place in the Hyborian Age, is (as stated in the opening credits) ""Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard"", making this film another link between Red Sonja and the Hyborian Age. The Shadow of the Vulture ""The Shadow of the Vulture"" is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, first published in ""The Magic Carpet Magazine"", January 1934. The story introduces the character of Red Sonya of"
"assassins whose symbol is the Flame Knife. The cultists kidnap Nanaia, Conan's current girlfriend. The Cimmerian tracks them to their stronghold, where he becomes embroiled in a conflict with his old rival Olgerd Vladislav, an opponent first encountered in Howard's story ""A Witch Shall be Born"". The Flame Knife The Flame Knife is a 1955 fantasy novella by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was revised by de Camp from Howard's original story, a then-unpublished oriental tale featuring Francis X. Gordon titled ""Three-Bladed Doom"". De Camp"
"journey across the lands until he eventually becomes a legend. The character, Conan, and the world of Hyboria were based on the creations of pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard from the 1930s. Published in ""Weird Tales"", his series about the barbarian was popular with the readership; the barbarian's adventures in a savage and mystical world, replete with gore and brutal slayings, satisfied the reader's fantasies of being a ""powerful giant who lives by no rules but his own"". From the 1960s, Conan gained a wider audience as novels about him, written in imitation of Howard's style by L. Sprague de"
"Solomon Kane Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late 16th–early 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine ""Weird Tales"", often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back. Howard described him as a tall, sombre and gloomy man of pale skin, gaunt face and cold eyes, all of it shadowed by a slouch hat. He is dressed entirely in black and"
"and more agile than Conan. Valeria (Conan the Barbarian) Valeria is a pirate and adventuress (a member of ""The Red Brotherhood"" of pirates) in the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories. She appears in Robert E. Howard's Conan novella ""Red Nails"", serialized in ""Weird Tales"" 28 1-3 (July, August/September & October 1936). This was the last Conan story written by Howard, and published posthumously. The name was also used for Conan's love interest in the 1982 film ""Conan the Barbarian"". Robert E. Howard described Valeria in ""Red Nails"" as follows: She is also described as a"
"that Howard died. Howard's output during the final year of his life was entirely western oriented. However, he wrote shortly before his suicide that he was considering another fantasy piece and two unfinished drafts were found amongst his papers. After the creation and success of Sailor Steve Costigan, Howard never stopped writing comedies. These stories begin at a time when Howard had physically become a match for the ""oil field bully"" type that he despised and when he had begun to achieve intellectual success as a writer. Character of Robert E. Howard The character, personality and social views of Texan"
"Howard the Duck Howard the Duck is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. Howard the Duck first appeared in ""Adventure into Fear"" #19 (cover-dated Dec. 1973) and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic ""funny animal"" trapped on a human-dominated Earth. Howard's adventures are generally social satires, while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. The book is existentialist, and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no"
"Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard is a biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by Mark Finn, first published in a trade paperback edition in November 2006 by MonkeyBrain Books. A second, expanded and corrected edition was published in hardcover by The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press in January 2012; a trade paperback followed from the same publisher in 2013. Both editions include an introduction by suspense writer Joe R. Lansdale. The work, an examination of the famous fantasy writer and creator of"
"""established Tierney as one of the leading weird poets of his generation."" Joshi has commented that some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce. For Ace Books, with his frequent collaborator David C. Smith, Tierney co-authored a series of seven novels loosely based on a Robert E. Howard character Red Sonja (a female super-heroine warring against the Turks in 17th century Eastern Europe). Red Sonja's character was loosely based on Red Sonya (note different spelling) of Rogatino in Robert E. Howard's short story ""The Shadow of the Vulture"" (""The Magic Carpe""t, January 1934), which Roy Thomas rewrote"
"Fictioneer"". The restored version was printed in issue #10 of the fanzine ""REH: Two-Gun Raconteur"" (Winter 2006). This story was re-written by L. Sprague de Camp into the Conan story ""The Flame Knife"". This was first printed in the hardback ""Tales of Conan"" (1955). Three-Bladed Doom ""Three-Bladed Doom"" is an adventure short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his character El Borak. It was not published within Howard's lifetime. There are two different versions of this story. The first is shorter (24,000 words) than the second (42,000) words. The short version was printed first, in issue #4 of"
"is John Galt?"" that plays an important role in ""Atlas Shrugged"". Rand is not the only famous author to invent a character with this name. Pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard, creator of heroes such as Conan the Barbarian, used a villain named John Galt—also a man of mystery missing for a long time and possessed of great wealth, trying to manipulate his world from the background—in the tale ""Black Talons"" in 1933, more than twenty years before ""Atlas Shrugged"" was published. The Galt character has been compared to various iconic figures from literature and history. In the novel itself,"
"Conan the Barbarian (1955 collection) Conan the Barbarian is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1955. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine ""Weird Tales"". This collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other ""Conan"" collections. A later collection with the same title but different contents was issued in paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine Books in 2011. Chronologically, the five short stories collected as"
"with Kull but keeping the basic plot of a barbarian king being removed from his throne by the machinations of an undead sorcerer. In 2012, Dark Horse began a new comic series called ""Conan the Conqueror""; the first stories are an adaptation of ""The Hour of the Dragon"" The Hour of the Dragon The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was one of the last Conan stories published before Howard's suicide although not the last to"
"""Conan the Barbarian"" are the second in Gnome's Conan series; the stories collected as ""The Sword of Conan"" follow. Conan the Barbarian (1955 collection) Conan the Barbarian is a collection of five fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard, featuring his sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1955. The stories originally appeared in the 1930s in the fantasy magazine ""Weird Tales"". This collection never saw publication in paperback; instead, its component stories were split up and distributed among other ""Conan"" collections. A later collection with the same title but"
"Adaptations of works by Robert E. Howard The works of Robert E. Howard (1906—1936) have been adapted into multiple media, the most famous being the Conan films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition to the Conan films, other adaptations have included ""Kull the Conqueror"" (1997) and ""Solomon Kane"" (2009). In television, the anthology series ""Thriller"" (1961) led the adaptations with an episode based on the short story ""Pigeons from Hell."" The bulk of the adaptations have, however, been based on Conan with two animated and one live action series. Multiple audio dramas have been adapted, from professional audio books and plays"
"Bran Mak Morn Bran Mak Morn is a hero of five pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in ""Weird Tales"", Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts. At 13, Howard, being of Scottish-Irish descent, began his studies of Scottish history and became fascinated with what he calls ""the small dark Mediterranean aborigines of Britain"". As these Picts were portrayed as inferior to later tribes, Howard imagined them as a link between modern and ancient times. His Picts originated on a group"
"Robert E. Howard bibliography (poems P–Z) A list of poems by Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), an American writer and poet in early 20th-century Texas. His love of poetry came from being read to by his mother at a young age. However, his attempts to make a living by poetry were unsuccessful and he is today most remembered for his short stories and fiction. Nevertheless, Howard wrote hundreds of poems; many were published within his lifetime and the others published after his 1936 suicide. The lack of information in a column does not necessarily mean that the information does not exist,"
"Almuric Almuric is a science fiction novel by Robert E. Howard. It was originally serialized in three parts in the magazine ""Weird Tales"" beginning in May 1939. The novel was first published in book form in 1964 by Ace Books. The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn, a complete misfit in modern America who ""belongs in a simpler age"". Exploited by a corrupt political boss whom he finally kills with his bare hands, Cairn must flee. A sympathetic scientist helps him get through space to a world known as Almuric, by unspecified scientific methods. There"
"Conrad. Almuric Almuric is a science fiction novel by Robert E. Howard. It was originally serialized in three parts in the magazine ""Weird Tales"" beginning in May 1939. The novel was first published in book form in 1964 by Ace Books. The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn, a complete misfit in modern America who ""belongs in a simpler age"". Exploited by a corrupt political boss whom he finally kills with his bare hands, Cairn must flee. A sympathetic scientist helps him get through space to a world known as Almuric, by unspecified scientific methods."
"was completed by July 1933. While he is better remembered for creating characters such as Conan and Solomon Kane, the Breckinridge Elkins stories were in fact the longest-running and most commercially successful series of Howard's writing career, running in every issue of ""Action Stories"" from ""Mountain Man"" in March–April 1934 through ""The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts"" in October 1936 after his death. Despite being overlooked by comparison with his contributions to the swords-and-sorcery genre, some critics have thought that in the Breckinridge Elkins stories ""Finally, Robert's real storytelling voice, unfiltered through books and imagined histories, could be heard, and"
"The Phoenix on the Sword ""The Phoenix on the Sword"" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard, and first published in ""Weird Tales"" magazine, in December, 1932. The tale, in which Howard created the character of Conan, was a rewrite of the unpublished Kull story, ""By This Axe I Rule!"", with long passages being identical. The Conan version of the story was republished in the collections ""King Conan"" (Gnome Press, 1953) and ""Conan the Usurper"" (Lancer Books, 1967). It has most recently been republished in the collections ""The Conan"
"(), which collected all the color stories, including the ""Sword of Solomon Kane"" limited series. Solomon Kane (comics) Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. He was featured in several comics published by Marvel Comics in the 1970s and 1980s. Dark Horse Comics began publishing a new series of Kane stories in 2008, and also published collections of the 1970s Marvel stories in 2009. Marvel Comics published several comic books featuring Solomon Kane. He was the lead character in the six-issue limited series ""Sword of Solomon Kane"", published 1985-6. He also appeared numerous"
"Robert E. Howard bibliography (poems A–H) A list of poems by Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), an American writer and poet in early 20th century Texas. His love of poetry came from being read to by his mother at a young age. However, his attempts to make a living by poetry were unsuccessful and he is today most remembered for his short stories and fiction. Nevertheless, Howard wrote hundreds of poems; many were published within his lifetime and the others published after his 1936 suicide. The lack of information in a column does not necessarily mean that the information does not"
"Conan the Usurper Conan the Usurper is a 1967 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writer Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine ""Weird Tales"" in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times since by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Dutch. Conan, about forty in these stories, embarks on the most desperate gamble of his life — leading a revolution against King Numedides of Aquilonia, with"