The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard

Look at the works of Ian Fleming, such great stuff to read and enjoy (the same way that Hammer Horror of the same period would also revive memories of the great Universal Horror Films that were from the same era as the original great pulps). And it’s not just the great pulps of the late 20’s and early 30’s. But the best of it, well the best of it has a kind of poetry that doesn’t really exist in the kind of mainstream fare of serious straight films and modernism literary masterpieces. Much of it is crap and much of it we would be better off without, even if people eat it up.

I approach pulp fiction kind of the same way that I approach Horror films. And I think I probably would have had fantasy stories, in yet another name, on the way to Weird Tales.

But I think, under other names, I also would have been sending stuff into Black Mask, hard boiled detective stories in the style of Dash Hammett. If I had been writing 80 years ago, I have no doubt I would have been submitting short stories to Scribners. Not in terms of what I write about – I am glad to be situated here a good century into the history of film to have more to write about. I sometime thinks I missed my proper age as a writer. Richard Fleischer), Conan the Barbarian (2011 – ** – dir. John Milius), Conan the Destroyer (1984 – * – dir. Film Version: Conan the Barbarian (1982 – *** – dir.First Line (sort-of): “Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs into dawn.”.Contents Originally Published: mostly 1932-1934 in Weird Tales.

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard