![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That can be hard to showcase without insisting you read an entire story, so today I want to show readers who seem unaware of his work (or those who are uninterested) a few more reasons why those of us in the know revere him so highly. He was also a master of headlong, driving pace. Only a handful of writers can approach him in that field, and almost none are his equal. I’ve done it before, and I could easily do it again here. It’s easy to pull some samples of great action writing from Robert E. Howard thought himself above describing a lithesome waist or a wilting beauty, especially if he needed to make a quick buck, it’s just that there’s a lot more going on in a Conan story than his imitators took away. If they only know him through depictions of Conan or, worse, rip-offs, then they think Howard’s writing is all about a dull guy in a loin cloth fighting monsters and lots of straining bosoms. Howard was, a lot of them don’t seem to believe me. When I tell people what a great writer Robert E. ![]()
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