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In this essay I shall seek to pick out a few themes from Robert E. Howard’s writing life, using one of his most emblematic stories, “Rogues in the House,” as a living illustration.
Howard certainly had (or imagined that he did) strong Irish roots which influenced much of his fiction in a Celtic direction. One only has to look at the nature of the Nemedian chronicles in the Conan mythos to see this. Read more …
The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror), Part 2
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In my previous installment, I had brought Conan up from the pits underneath the Royal palace at Belverus in Nemedia. Read more …