Howard is the creator of one of the most memorable and well-known characters in literary history “black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the earth under his sandaled feet, hither came Conan the Cimmerian”. Deceased by the age of 30 and leaving behind a prolific handful of detective, western, and weird fiction tales that he wrote in a small 1930’s boomtown in Texas, thou shall know his name, both readers of fiction and fantasy alike, for Robert E. Howard was an eccentric genius burdened with an over-active child’s imagination that he never managed to grow beyond. Pulp author of dark fantasy and sword & sorcery short stories for the magazine Weird Tales, Robert E.
Thou shalt know the name of he who came before fantasy author J.R.R.
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