Robert E. Howards Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus - Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

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Category: Fantasy

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Fantasy

When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeared in print.Author Robert E. Howard had been writing stories broadly similar to it for half a decade; but it was with Conan, and the Hyborian Age storyworld in which he was placed, that Howard finally fully doped out the sub-genre that would become known as sword and sorcery, of which Howard is today considered the founding father., Conans origins date back to an experiment in 1926 titled The Shadow Kingdom, featuring the character Kull, exile of Atlantis. The idea Howards great innovation was, at its core, historical fiction set in a pre-historical period. That pre-historical period being, of course, lost in the mists of time could contain anything Howard might like to include: evil races of sentient snake-things, sorcerers, undead creatures, demons walking upon the earth, anything., In other words, Howard was creating a secular mytholo