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Robert E. Howard

Lifespan
1906 – 1936
Nationality
American
Active
1927 – 1936
Works held
26

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) created Conan the Cimmerian and, with him, the genre of heroic fantasy. Writing at ferocious speed for Weird Tales, he poured out a mythology of the invented Hyborian Age charged with vitality and dark romance. Though he died at only thirty, his influence on fantasy, and on the wider sword-and-sorcery tradition Leiber would later name, is immense and enduring.

The works

  1. 1936
    Cover of Black Canaan Black Canaan Cover of Black hound of death Black hound of death Cover of Red Nails Red Nails Cover of The Hyborian Age The Hyborian Age Cover of The fire of Asshurbanipal The fire of Asshurbanipal
  2. 1935
    Cover of Beyond the Black River Beyond the Black River Cover of Jewels of Gwahlur Jewels of Gwahlur Cover of Shadows in Zamboula Shadows in Zamboula Cover of The Hour of the Dragon The Hour of the Dragon Cover of The grisly horror The grisly horror
  3. 1934
    Cover of A Witch Shall Be Born A Witch Shall Be Born Cover of Gods of the North Gods of the North Cover of Queen of the Black Coast Queen of the Black Coast Cover of Shadows in the Moonlight Shadows in the Moonlight Cover of The Devil in Iron The Devil in Iron Cover of The People of the Black Circle The People of the Black Circle Cover of The haunter of the ring The haunter of the ring
  4. 1929
    Cover of Rattle of bones Rattle of bones Cover of Skull-face Skull-face Cover of Skulls in the stars Skulls in the stars Cover of The mirrors of Tuzun Thune The mirrors of Tuzun Thune Cover of The shadow kingdom The shadow kingdom
  5. 1928
    Cover of Red shadows Red shadows Cover of Sea curse Sea curse Cover of The dream snake The dream snake
  6. 1927
    Cover of The lost race The lost race

Wrote across

1920s1930s

Recurring themes

FantasyHorrorAdventureLost World

Kindred authors shared themes

Henry KuttnerAbraham MerrittAndre NortonAnonymousArlo BatesArthur Conan DoyleBaron Edward Bulwer Lytton LyttonCarl Jacobi

Contemporaries writing in the same era

VariousH. P. LovecraftEdmond HamiltonEdgar Rice BurroughsRay CummingsRuth Plumly ThompsonE. E. SmithJack WilliamsonJr. John W. CampbellVictor Appleton

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