Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard - Softcover

Howard, Robert E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080951124X ISBN 13: 9780809511242

Verlag: Wildside Press, 2004

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It is impossible to ignore the sheer number of boxing stories that Robert E. Howard wrote. Serious or funny, spooky or adventurous, these stories represent a fierce creative outburst that would pave the way later for his western hero, Breckenridge Elkins. In these stories we see Howard's craft pushed from mere construction to passionate involvement. He took all of his interests and peppered them through the various boxing stories. He wrote them faster than the magazine could print them. Clearly, he loved what he was doing. When Howard could write no more, he went on to draft Conan and the aforementioned Elkins, who owes much in style and content to the Costigan stories. The fight stories are a joy to read and reread. They are funny, bawdy, picaresque, and violent. Presented here, as they were originally printed, they perfectly showcase why Robert E. Howard was one of the greatest adventure writers of the 20th century.

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Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, adventure, westerns, historical fiction, and boxing stories, and one of the central figures in the development of modern heroic fantasy. Born in Texas and closely associated with the pulp magazine era, Howard wrote with extraordinary energy across multiple popular genres, but he is best remembered as the creator of Conan the Barbarian. His fiction appeared in magazines such as Weird Tales, where his combination of action, dark atmosphere, ancient civilizations, and supernatural menace helped create the sword-and-sorcery tradition.Howard's Conan stories began appearing in the early 1930s and quickly established a new kind of fantasy hero: physically powerful, morally complex, suspicious of civilization, and driven by instinct, courage, ambition, and survival. Unlike the courtly heroes of older romance, Conan moves through a world of collapsing kingdoms, decadent cities, monstrous cults, lost races, and sinister magic. These stories helped shift fantasy toward a harder, faster, more visceral mode of adventure, influencing generations of writers, artists, filmmakers, game designers, and readers.Although Howard died at only thirty, his literary legacy is immense. Alongside Conan, he created characters such as Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and many others, each contributing to the imaginative worlds of pulp fantasy, weird fiction, horror, and historical adventure. Today Robert E. Howard is recognised as a foundational author of sword and sorcery and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century fantasy fiction.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wildside Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080951124X
• ISBN 13: 9780809511242
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
• Herausgeber: Herman Paul
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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