Graveyard Rats and Others - Softcover

Howard, Robert E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159224145X ISBN 13: 9781592241453

Verlag: Wildside Press, 2004

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Robert E. Howard came into the fiction magazine scene virtually on Dashell Hammett's heels. By that time Howard was a full-fledged professional writer; he was willing to try any marketplace to make a living. Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron, editor of "The Dark Barbarian," the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.

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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.

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• Verlag: Wildside Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 159224145X
• ISBN 13: 9781592241453
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
• Herausgeber: Herman Paul
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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