Deucey | 31 Aug 2019 9:46 a.m. PST |
Which is your favorite Robert E Howard story? |
USAFpilot | 31 Aug 2019 10:07 a.m. PST |
Hard to remember them all by name. My favorite scene is from one of the Conan stories. It is just a small scene in which King Conan is looking at an unfinished map. He had sent riders out in all directions to explore and map his kingdom. One place on the map remained void of detail because his riders had failed to return from that direction. It is late at night and an irritated, half drunk Conan writes in the empty space on the map "Here be dragons!". |
JimSelzer | 31 Aug 2019 10:13 a.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink | 31 Aug 2019 10:45 a.m. PST |
"The Grey God Passes" followed closely by "People of the Black Circle." But on the right day and in the right mood, it might be any of a dozen. USAFpilot, you've been reading pastiches. You need to watch that sort of thing. Unless you're garbling "The Phoenix on the Sword." |
CeruLucifus | 31 Aug 2019 12:49 p.m. PST |
Beyond the Black River or Jewels of Gwahlur or Red Nails |
USAFpilot | 31 Aug 2019 1:43 p.m. PST |
Robert, it has been awhile since I read any Howard, but I've never read any of the "pastiches" as you put. After a little research, the scene is a little different from how I remember, but here it is: "South of Hyperborea lies Brythunia," he murmured aloud. Selecting a broad blank space far enough out on the Hyrkanian desert to baffle inquisitive explorers, he wrote laboriously, "Here be dragons." Then leaning back he surveyed his work with childish pride. -The Phoenix on the Sword – Draft, chapter 2 I have all Howard's Conan stories in three volumes. Too bad that scene was taken out of the final version of 'The Phoenix on the Sword' and only appeared in a draft version of the story in the appendix. It makes me laugh. |
USAFpilot | 31 Aug 2019 1:54 p.m. PST |
I'll still go with "The Phoenix on the Sword" as my pick. Fortunately the opening preamble didn't get cut. "Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars…." Now that is extraordinary writing! |
Tgerritsen | 31 Aug 2019 4:40 p.m. PST |
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Chalfant | 01 Sep 2019 4:18 a.m. PST |
Beyond the Black River. Chalfant |
Pictors Studio | 01 Sep 2019 9:25 a.m. PST |
I am also going with Red Nails. |
mildbill | 01 Sep 2019 1:47 p.m. PST |
Pigeons from Hell is pretty good but the Black River and Red Nails are a tie for me. |
mildbill | 01 Sep 2019 1:49 p.m. PST |
If you are in the right frame of mind, REH poetry is even better than his stories. I just wish it was easier to find. |
Deucey | 01 Sep 2019 4:10 p.m. PST |
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The Bibliophile | 07 Sep 2019 7:39 a.m. PST |
"Beyond the Black River" and "Red Nails." I like the former so much that I've made and run a convention game adaptation of it. You can read about it at the below links… link link |