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Post by deuce on Jul 26, 2017 13:31:51 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 2, 2017 15:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 2, 2017 23:51:52 GMT -5
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Post by Von K on Aug 23, 2017 7:22:45 GMT -5
Robert E Howard is the favorite author of Byron Roberts, who founded metal band Bal Sagoth:
The rest of the interview, where Byron speaks more of REH's inluence, and also that of CAS and HPL, plus the Whole Wide World, is here: ink19.com/2001/06/magazine/interviews/bal-sagoth-2
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Post by deuce on Sept 3, 2017 9:23:03 GMT -5
"The best weird story I ever read was, I think, your 'The Outsider' which I ran across in a volume of bound copies of WT which Mr. Barlow forwarded to me. And close to that, for me anyhow, runs Robert E. Howard's 'Worms of the Earth'. Perhaps it was because that was the first of his stories I had read, and brought home to me very vividly the possibilities of that type of fiction, even when it appears in the pulps. I am a tremendous admirer of Mr. Howard's work. At his best he is near perfection, it seems to me, and even at his goriest and blood-and-thundery-est there's a lusty vitality about everything he writes that makes the story engulf one in the vividest, most living sort of way."
-- C. L. Moore to H. P. Lovecraft, 24 Apr 1935
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Post by deuce on Oct 22, 2017 0:16:39 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 6, 2017 13:16:15 GMT -5
Dragon Award-nominated author, Kai Wai Cheah, is the newest convert to the Church of REH: www.pulprev.com/2017/12/appendix-n-profile-robert-e-howard.html"Robert E Howard is a grandmaster of the art. His incredible output and versatility exemplify the finest traditions of the pulp era, his command of the language and the craft is superb, and there is hardly a false note in his stories. Through Conan and Sword & Sorcery, Howard's stories will endure the test of time."
-- Kai Wai Cheah
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Post by deuce on Feb 14, 2018 11:35:41 GMT -5
"Howard did not have unlimited range as a writer, but certain things he did very well indeed, certain emotions he depicted with a master's hand.
Hatred, obsession and revenge were among those emotions. They infuse the best of his Conan stories, "Red Nails", making it a minor masterpiece of terror and madness."
-- S.M. StirlingStirling also dedicated his pulpish alternate history novel, The Peshawar Lancers, to REH.
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Post by kemp on Feb 17, 2018 22:48:20 GMT -5
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Post by kemp on Feb 17, 2018 22:56:09 GMT -5
Robert Jordan wrote some Conan pastiche tales, and is of course the author and creator of The Wheel of Time series.
'The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
Robert Jordan
Decades earlier from REH's 'The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune'
'Time strides onward,' said Tuzun Thune calmly: 'We live today; what care we for tomorrow-or yesterday? The wheel turns and nations rise and fall; the world changes, and times return to savagery to rise again through the long ages.'
Robert E Howard
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Post by kemp on Feb 17, 2018 22:58:57 GMT -5
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Oscar Wilde
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Post by deuce on Feb 18, 2018 0:55:40 GMT -5
Moorcock has thrown several backhanded "compliments" and outright insults REH's way as well. This thread is for straight-up quotes in praise of Robert E. Howard (or "having read" quotes like the one from Moorcock above). All of the authors/artists/"creatives" quoted previously in this thread pretty much openly admit liking REH. Speculation really isn't necessary nor is it the purpose of this thread. Regarding this Oscar Wilde quote: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” None of the people quoted previous to Moorcock, to my knowledge, have tried to present themselves as somehow superior to REH. In the case of many of them, any sort of "imitation" is subtle, at best. The fact that they saw fit to acknowledge their debt to and/or praise Howard should be commended. They may have fans who never heard of REH--believe me, Howard has been given the memory-hole treatment, good n' hard--and those fans just might seek out REH's work after reading quotes like that. When it comes to "hidden influences", "rip offs", inferences and speculations, this is our go-to thread: swordsofreh.proboards.com/thread/77/when-rehs-potentially-unnoticed
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Post by deuce on Feb 18, 2018 1:27:39 GMT -5
"My first love as a fan is swords-and-horses fantasies. After Tolkien I went after C.S. Lewis. After Lewis, it was Lloyd Alexander. After them came Fritz Leiber, Roger Zalazny, Robert E. Howard, John Norman, Poul Anderson, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Moon, Glen Cook, and before I knew it, I was a dual citizen of the United States and Lankhmar, Narnia, Gor, Cimmeria, Krynn, Amber – you get the picture. "
-- Jim Butcher
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Post by kemp on Feb 18, 2018 1:48:56 GMT -5
Moorcock has thrown several backhanded "compliments" and outright insults REH's way as well. This thread is for straight-up quotes in praise of Robert E. Howard (or "having read" quotes like the one from Moorcock above). All of the authors/artists/"creatives" quoted previously in this thread pretty much openly admit liking REH. Speculation really isn't necessary nor is it the purpose of this thread. Regarding this Oscar Wilde quote: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” None of the people quoted previous to Moorcock, to my knowledge, have tried to present themselves as somehow superior to REH. In the case of many of them, any sort of "imitation" is subtle, at best. The fact that they saw fit to acknowledge their debt to and/or praise Howard should be commended. They may have fans who never heard of REH--believe me, Howard has been given the memory-hole treatment, good n' hard--and those fans just might seek out REH's work after reading quotes like that. When it comes to "hidden influences", "rip offs", inferences and speculations, this is our go-to thread: swordsofreh.proboards.com/thread/77/when-rehs-potentially-unnoticedMoorcock acknowledges REH as an insipration nonetheless, and I have read the same in the opening introductions in the Elric series even if he mentions this in passing. 'In Praise of Robert E. Howard's Works' and 'Inspired by Deuce's marvellous thread over at the Robert E. Howard forums, collected herein are a bundle of quotes in praise of the Man from Cross Plains from those in the business.' there is this by Michael Moorcock. 'Over a period of time following almost exactly the period in which I was writing the first Elric stories, I was inclined to distance myself from the work of Robert E. Howard, even though he had been an important influence (unlike Lovecraft, for whom I had no taste).' 'Over a period of time following almost exactly the period in which I was writing the first Elric stories, I was inclined to distance myself from the work of Robert E. Howard, even though he had been an important influence (unlike Lovecraft, for whom I had no taste). Over the years I have seen many other writers put space between themselves and their main sources of inspiration and have come to understand it as an important, if not particularly admirable, part of the process of trying to make one’s individual mark. Howard wrote pulp adventure stories of every kind, for every market he could find, but his real love was for supernatural adventure and he brought a brash, tough element to the epic fantasy which did as much to change the course of the American school away from precious writing and static imagery as Hammett, Chandler, and the Black Mask pulp writers were to change the course of American detective fiction.' Michael Moorcock theblogthattimeforgot.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/in-praise-of-robert-e-howard.html
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Post by deuce on Mar 2, 2018 12:56:57 GMT -5
Legendary artist, Michael Wm. Kaluta, on when he first read Almuric: I believe one line of the narrative was graven onto my teenage brainpan... harken: 'My mind peopled the distance with nightmare shapes.'The Jack Gaughan cover to the edition MWK read.
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