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    Default Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian...

    ... black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.



    I believe a discussion of Robert E. Howard and his writings is in order. Who else is a reader? Feel free to post anything relevant to Howard's work, be it favourite passages, favourite stories, favourite characters, your thoughts on his preference for barbarism over civilisation, or anything else Howard-related.

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    The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom;
    A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on winds of doom.
    In heaps the shining horsemen lie, where the thrusting lances break,
    And deep in the haunted mountains, the lost, black gods awake.
    Dead hands grope in the shadows, the stars turn pale with fright,
    For this is the Dragon's Hour, the triumph of Fear and Night.

    --Robert E. Howard

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    I've read a few of Howard's books (not enough), but am much more well versed in The Savage Sword of Conan comics:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychonaut View Post
    I've read a few of Howard's books (not enough), but am much more well versed in The Savage Sword of Conan comics:

    I haven't read a single of the comics. I have every of the Dark Horse graphic novel series, save for the latest release, though.

    Which stories have you read? Anything outside of Conan (Bran Mak Morn, Kull, Solomon Kane, etc.)?

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    I grew up on those, I have a collection of books valued a lot by dorks in the comic store but no chance in hell i am gonna sell them, but yeah, it's pretty much Conan for me too.

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    I love the Conan stories! Great idea!

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    A free online collection:

    The 'Conan' Stories:

    "If Germany re-establishes her trade in the next 50 years, we shall have fought the war (WW1) in vain
    ."
    Winston Churchill interviewed by the London Times in 1919

    "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years"
    French marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Treaty of Versailles in 1919

    "Our ideal is to round Poland off with frontiers on the Oder in the West and the Neisse in Lausatia, and to reincorporate Prussia, from the Pregel to the Spree. In this war no prisoners will be taken, there will be no room for humanitarian feelings. We shall surprise the whole world in our war with Germany."
    Polish newspaper Mosarstwowiecz (1930), three years before Hitler's rise to power.




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    Thanks for the links, I've only read Jordans Conan books so I'll have to have a go at these
    Cattle die, kinsmen die,
    the self must also die;
    but glory never dies,
    For the one who is able to achieve it.

    Sayings of the High One.

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    I loved all the Conan books, and the Solomon Kane stories, too. Heady stuff for a preadolescent in the early '70s! The paperback reprints came out then (same time as the reprints of the Doc Savage stories)--a great time for young readers!
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