Search results
5 days ago · In this unremarkable place, Robert E. Howard created some of fantasy fiction’s greatest, most beloved characters. He lived from 1906-1936 and spent the last 17 years in Cross Plains. From his small bedroom, and largely in literary isolation, Howard carved a path no writer had ever traveled.
1 day ago · Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone.Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones, and tells the story of a barbarian warrior named Conan (Schwarzenegger) who seeks vengeance for the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (Jones), the leader of ...
2 days ago · Almost immediately after hearing about Howard's death, Lovecraft wrote a brief memoir titled "In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard", which he distributed to his correspondents. Meanwhile, Lovecraft's physical health was deteriorating.
4 days ago · J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard were contemporaries as writers, and their best-known creations became founding paragons of the “epic fantasy” and “sword and sorcery” genres respectively. Still, Parsons manages to wander afield from these two midwives for “the birth of modern fantasy,” along with the resulting progeny.
4 days ago · by Steve Replogle. When Swords of the North was published in 2014, it marked the first time that all of Howard’s writings about Turlogh Dubh O’Brien were published under one cover. Before this a collector had to scramble regarding Turlogh.
3 days ago · Red Sonja is a fictional sword and sorcery comic-book superheroine created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially inspired by Robert E. Howard's character Red Sonya of Rogatino.
3 days ago · Columbus Remembers, powered by Legacy.com, is the most timely and comprehensive collection of Columbus obituaries and local obituaries from the Columbus area, updated regularly throughout the...
