"Favorite Robert E Howard character" Topic

Mine is Solomon Kane followed by bran mak Morn. But I like them all!

I only really know Conan, so I guess he is my favourite!

Has to be Conan!

Tally Ho!

Conan for the WIN

All great characters. Maybe a tie between Conan and Solomon Kane. In D&D terms I always thought of Conan as chaotic good and Kane as lawful good.

REH wrote more Conan stories than any other character. I think Kull and Bran Mak Morn predate the writing of Conan. Some of the El Borak stories are pretty good too.

Yeah, in the end, it has to be Conan.

But did get me to thinking: I really should find an El Borak figure in 28mm. Any recommendations?

Richie Cunningham, clearly :)

Conan! CROM!!!!

Breckinridge Elkins. He would whip Conan up one side of the Humbolts and down t'other.

Conan

Solomon Kane … we did do a poll on this in recent memory.

Conan

I know only Conan, and I'm not a fan.

Unspeakable Cults

Why does a character have to be a person? The book was carried into stories by the rest of the writing circle (Lovecraft, Derleth, Smith, etc.), so it must have some draw.

For people … Skull Face.

Cormac Mac Art, and his sidekick Wulfhere the skull splitter..

Gunfreak, I won't argue tastes, but be sure you've read real Robert E. Howard Conan before you decide you know and don't like him. There is some dreadful stuff added by later authors.

Yeah I really did not like Robert Jordan's take on Conan.

Kull and Conan win out but N'Longa wasn't too shabby. Really liked him.

Belit, Queen of the Black Coast. Closely followed by Red Sonya.

I wish there were more Kane stories written, but I still have to vote for Conan.

Conan for the win

El Borak the "White Wolf" isn't that well known. He's my favorite, but I wonder how many here, that quickly said Conan or Solomon Kane, have actually read the "White Wolf" stories, or any of the "outremer" stories with heroes like "Cormac Fitzgeoffrey", or, for that matter, the "Sailor Steve Costigan" stories.

Solomon Kane. Or maybe Dark Agnes.

But Howard had a lot of characters. That guy could really turn out the pages. Most people haven't even heard of El Borak, or Sailor Steve Costigan and his bulldog Mike, but they were extremely popular back in the day.

For those that don't have much experience with Robert E. Howard you can listen to many of his stories on Librivox while you are painting.

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Starting around 2003, Del Rey published 10 volumes of Howard's work. Three books on Conan, and one for Kane, Bran Mak, Kull, El Borak+, horror stories, and two ‘best of'. All 10 paperbacks are 400+ pages with a smattering of illustrations. Highly recommend.

Here's one of the Del Ray books. That, IMHO, contains some of Howard's most interesting stories.

Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures

The immortal legacy of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Cimmerian, continues with this latest compendium of Howard's fiction and poetry. These adventures, set in medieval-era Europe and the Near East, are among the most gripping Howard ever wrote, full of pageantry, romance, and battle scenes worthy of Tolstoy himself. Most of all, they feature some of Howard's most unusual and memorable characters, including Cormac FitzGeoffrey, a half-Irish, half-Norman man of war who follows Richard the Lion-hearted to twelfth-century Palestine—or, as it was known to the Crusaders, Outremer; Diego de Guzman, a Spaniard who visits Cairo in the guise of a Muslim on a mission of revenge; and the legendary sword woman Dark Agnès, who, faced with an arranged marriage to a brutal husband in sixteenth-century France, cuts the ceremony short with a dagger thrust and flees to forge a new identity on the battlefield.

Thanks for that. I'll pick up a copy.