Libaax
Wanderer
Burhan the Puntlander
Posts: 25 
|
Post by Libaax on Mar 24, 2016 8:27:39 GMT -5
For me it is a given that Staples art was the best of all the Del Rey REH i have because they actually added to Howard stories, the moods so well I cant imagine The stories without illos like this  |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Apr 22, 2016 18:32:11 GMT -5
This is skirting the parameters, but actor Paul Giamatti is a Howard fan: "When I was 14, I went off on my own and started reading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu books. I think my dad actually thought that stuff was crap. He used to look at me and say, “Why are you reading that shit?” But the Fu Manchu books were just extraordinary. Horrible racist claptrap, of course, but also surprisingly well written. I’m a great lover of intrinsic weirdness. At around the same time, I got into HP Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard."Now, Giamatti actually did comics and animation before he became an actor. According to him, he worked up a "Gothic Western" comic about a man named Mr. Blake who dressed all in black. Sounds like he was mixing Howardian Weird Westerns and Solomon Kane. The whole interview can be found here: www.ericspitznagel.com/the-believer/paul-giamatti/ |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Apr 22, 2016 19:50:38 GMT -5
Michael Chabon is a screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and avowed REH fan: " I read fantasy, science fiction, and adventure fiction, from Tolkien to Robert E. Howard’s Conan books (...)"Talking about writing his adventure novel, Gentlemen of the Road, Chabon said: "I also, maybe more importantly, re-read some of my lifelong favorite writers of historical swashbuckling romance: Alexander Dumas, Rafael Sabatini, Robert E. Howard (...)""That [sense of cultural transience] begins to permeate the thinking of 19th century Europe and America and produces works like The Decline of The West. The rise and fall of civilization is this inevitable process, to which we must all eventually succumb. Nobody's going got be more haunted by that thinking than a parvenu, an ariviste who's kind of new to it all. The person who's most worried about losing everything is the person who's had it the least amount of time. You find that kind of anxiety haunting American popular fiction. You see it in H.P. Lovecraft, you see it in Robert E Howard. In fact, it's probably one of the key tropes of a lot of pulp fiction of the 20th century, that notion that it's all bound to end someday."Here's Chabon's list of top adventure tales: CAPTAIN BLOOD, Rafael Sabatini The Kull Stories, Robert E. Howard The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories, Fritz Leiber AGAINST THE DAY, Thomas Pynchon The Brigadier Gerard stories, Arthur Conan Doyle THE CHINESE BANDIT, Stephen Becker THE ICE SCHOONER, Michael Moorcock THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Alexandre Dumas FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE, George MacDonald Fraser The Jirel of Joiry stories, C.L. Moore KING SOLOMON’S MINES, H. Rider Haggard  |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on May 2, 2016 1:27:20 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by deuce on May 17, 2016 15:52:40 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Jun 10, 2016 10:58:16 GMT -5
Just found out Joe Abercrombie quoted REH in his novel, The Heroes.
|
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Jun 11, 2016 8:22:36 GMT -5
Timothy Truman had this to say: "His work as an author was the biggest influence on both my own writing and art, and I'm so proud to have helped bring his greatest creation, Conan, to the world of comics." |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Oct 17, 2016 19:12:32 GMT -5
Ed Gorman, respected Western and mystery writer, died on October 14th (coincidentally, Karl Wagner died exactly 22yrs before). Ed was a big REH fan. Unfortunately, I can't track down a quote at the moment. Hopefully, I'll find one and post it later. Here's a eulogy from Jim Reasoner, himself a huge Howard fan: jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2016/10/ed.htmlRIP, Ed.  |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Jan 17, 2017 10:00:09 GMT -5
Schuyler Hernstrom has been generating a lot of buzz this past year in sword and sorcery circles. He's a big fan of the Old School and that includes REH: I write a couple different types of stories but the ones closest to my heart are the ones like "Athan and the Priestess". They happen in a sort of myth world that occupies some nook in my brain, living on despite constant assault from the modern world. The writer who best resembles that inner myth world is Dunsany. Howard and Vance are huge as well, probably in practical terms bigger influences...
For me gaming and literature have always been intertwined. Appendix N was well represented on the shelves in my home growing up. My dad was into this stuff and I grew up in a house creaking under the weight of all the books. I feel really lucky. There were the books, the Frazetta covers, Savage Sword of Conan, games, movies, tv shows, all boiling in a giant cauldron.Here's his first collection: www.amazon.com/Thunes-Vision-Schuyler-Hernstrom-ebook/dp/B01BKXSHP0 |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Jan 28, 2017 15:15:02 GMT -5
People have been looking for Atlantis for 500 years. I think we'll still be looking for it in 500 years. It intrigued me as a kid who grew up on science fiction and fantasy and Robert E. Howard and Conan and all that stuff.-- James Cameron
|
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Jan 28, 2017 20:32:49 GMT -5
Eileen Kernaghan is a fantasy author probably best known for her Celtic-themed "Grey Lands" trilogy. She's a Howard fan from way back. infogalactic.com/info/Eileen_Kernaghan
"R.L. Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses was the first book I ever owned, and it inspired a life-long fascination with exotic, far-off places. My tattered copy has survived to this day, along with A. Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar and L.Sprague de Camp's Lost Continents. Long vanished are the hand-me-down copies of Weird Tales.. In those faded 1930's pulps, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard wrote about worlds where (to quote Sprague de Camp) 'gleaming cities raise their shining spires against the stars; sorcerers cast sinister spells from subterranean lairs; baleful spirits stalk crumbled ruins; primeval monsters crash through jungle thickets; and the fate of kingdoms is balanced on the bloody blades of broadswords…' Worlds of mystery, lost in the deepest reaches of antiquity." |
|
|
|
Post by deuce on Jan 30, 2017 16:58:03 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by ChrisLAdams on Jan 31, 2017 21:57:02 GMT -5
BTW, if anyone has access to Gordon R. Dickson's intro to the paperback edition of The Road of Azrael (I lost mine in the Flood), I'd be deeply grateful to whoever posts it. Gordy was One of Us, too. Until a transcribed copy can be had here are images. I'm keeping my fingers crossed I get these added in the correct order...
     |
|
|
|
Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 9, 2017 12:59:12 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 9, 2017 13:11:10 GMT -5
This is another cool anthology from a well-know name - Karl Edward Wagner. I've had this raggedy thing in my collection for awhile. I believe I purchased it primarily for the unusually flush collection of Nictzin Dyalhis whose works I'm attempting to assemble to completion. This is not the thread to discuss it, however there is an excellent treatise on what little is known of Dyalhis in this book by Sam Moskowitz as reprinted by Wagner. Anyway, here are more words of praise for our beloved REH...     |
|
