DISCUSS ROBERT E HOWARD

[Squanto Airi]

Texas gunslinger mixing it up with Afghan hill tribes, Russian and British spies, Ottoman soldiers, Tibetan cults, and Persian secret societies in turn of the century central Asia is such a cool and underutilized setting.

Western gunslingers in foreign lands is an underutilized idea for stories. Just imagine an inverse version of Red Sun, where instead of the samurai coming through the American West, a cowboy or outlaw helping out with the Satsuma Uprising.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I wonder what's going on with that guy. He appears and disappears all the time. I like him, so it's kinda sad that my parasocial friend from across the pond still can't get his life together.

 

[ChampFantana]

The Savage Sword of Conan comics are some of the very best comics ever published. They have amazing art and are great adaptations of the original Conan stories.

Those were my intro into the writing of Howard, but he, Burroughs, and Conan Doyle are all some of my favorite writers of all time.

Tolkien of course, towers above all the rest, but Howard is a close second in the Fantasy genre. Sure, Tolkien invented High Fantasy and Howard was more of a Sword & Sorcery writer, both were masters of their respective crafts.

I wish like hell that Howard hadn't killed himself and had lived long enough write more stories.

 

[ADOLFHEILKANYE]

i think there should be a sword and sandals enemy to lovers type of shit

 

[ADOLFHEILKANYE]

y'all i think you can just make a sword and sandal enemies to lovers type of story

 

[Old King Koaleamos]

The Savage Sword of Conan comics are some of the very best comics ever published. They have amazing art and are great adaptations of the original Conan stories.

Those were my intro into the writing of Howard, but he, Burroughs, and Conan Doyle are all some of my favorite writers of all time.

Tolkien of course, towers above all the rest, but Howard is a close second in the Fantasy genre. Sure, Tolkien invented High Fantasy and Howard was more of a Sword & Sorcery writer, both were masters of their respective crafts.

I wish like hell that Howard hadn't killed himself and had lived long enough write more stories.

Howard is an extremely close second, but it's also because he's essentially a full evolution from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Harold Lamb (one of Howard's favorite writers and a damned fine swashbuckler-writer if you can find his works).

If there's an actual Mount Rushmore for the development of the fantasy genre as we know it, Tolkein, Howard, and Lord Dunsany are on it. I'd also argue that you could maybe put Abraham Merritt, James Branch Cabell, or Lewis on it. But Tolkein, Howard, and Dunsany are solidly on it.

Anyways, for those who want that Sword and Sorcery itch right now, might I suggest going and reading some old swashbuckling fiction? Dumas' Three Musketeers, Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel, Harold Lamb's Cossacks, Sabatini's Captain Blood, Mundy's Tros of Samotrace, and the like. It's not a perfect replacement, but these are the siblings of S&S.