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An abiding mystery of Robert E. Howard's volcanic career as a writer for the wood pulp fiction magazines remains: Why he didn't smoke the keys on his Underwood with one hard-boiled detective story after another? Howard had the speed, the influences, the personal interest in guns and boxing and other hallmarks of the tough guy crime tale. He hit his professional stride in exactly the right era. Among the vast hosts of his fellow fictioneers, Howard was one of the few to create an enduring icon of the hard-boiled attitude of his age with his most popular creation, Conan: a character and a mood, tougher than tough. Nailed to the cross in "A Witch Shall be Born," the Cimmerian emerges triumphant from the ordeal, a quintessential image torn from the heart of the Great Depression. If the American readership of _Weird Tales_, from young teens on up, needed reassurance that adversity could be met, Howard gave it to them in mythic terms told in emotionally immediate prose. You want a tough guy who can survive anything thrown at him, here's your tough guy. Of course, most Weird Tales readers probably weren't looking at the story with quite those ideas in mind. It usually takes a little time

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Author

Darrin

Publisher

Wildside Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Crime, Detective & Crime Fiction