By
Renzo Parodi
Robert E. Howard wrote. A lot. And not only prose but also a lot of introspective and dark poetry. Many probably have heard of him because of his most well known characters. But that was not all. He wrote about historical fantasy, science fiction inspired by Edgar Burroughs and his Martian series, Boxing Stories as he was an amateur boxing fanatic himself, Weird Fiction focused upon the so called “Yellow Peril” so present at that time. And not to forget his “Racial Memory” stories, influenced by the late writer Jack London and his novel “Star Rover”. Also, as he belonged to H.P Lovecraft’s inner circle of writers, he wrote a lot of Horror Stories influenced by the Lovecraftian Mythos.
His writings have been very hard to find in proper volumes as they used to appear scattered around in small books and even smaller magazines. However, The Robert E. Howard Foundation has taken enormous work in classifying, collecting and releasing in proper volumes all those works almost forgotten by the major public. Anyone interested not only in Weird Fantasy, Pulp literature but also epic and obscure poetry should visit Howard’s Foundation webstore and choose your path.
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