However, his stories also appeared in such diverse publications as Action Stories, Argosy, Fight Stories, Oriental Stories, Spicy Adventure, Sport Story, Strange Detective and a number of others.

Howard contributed his most celebrated work to the pre-eminent fantasy pulp magazine of the era, Weird Tales.

It has helped keep his work in the public eye for six decades since his death, but it has also obscured the astonishing breadth of his imagination, his talent for mastering a variety of genres and his ability to weave his magic in both prose and poetry. While he is widely regarded as the ‘father of Sword and Sorcery’ and the creator of Conan the Barbarian, this reputation has been something of a double-edged sword. The creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, ‘El Borak,’ Sailor Steve Costigan and many other memorable characters, Howard (known as REH to his millions of fans), in a career that spanned barely 12 years, wrote well over a hundred stories for the pulp magazines of his day. Howard.Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure stories. Other editions have simply presented the few story fragments as untouched-and unadulterated-Robert E. (Variant editions of this collection have been published over the years, with the uncompleted stories finished posthumously by Lin Carter. Rest assured there's enough gruesome bloodletting and wanton savagery to satisfy the most ardent Howard reader. What makes these scant dozen stories most memorable is Howard's heightened style of mystical decadence, similar here to his Weird Tales contemporary, Clark Ashton Smith. (Although Howard did transform a few unsold Kull adventures into those of Conan the Cimmerian when the later series took off with the public.) Set in ancient, lost Atlantis, the Kull stories take place mostly after the barbarian has already come to power as King Kull of Valusia. Yet Kull should not be dismissed as second-rate Conan.

Howard (1906-1936), generally credited as the originator of the subgenre heroic fantasy. As some cover blurbs so rightly state, 'Before Conan-there was Kull!' The warrior Kull was yet another popular creation of pulp writer Robert E.

Kull by Robert E. Howard