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WEIRD TALES JUNE 1933
- GenresHorror
Paperback
Published January 1, 1933
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Robert E. Howard
2,999 books2,652 followersRobert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."
He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
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He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
—Wikipedia
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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March 6, 2024
Another bare Brundage on the June 1933 Weird Tales cover, this one illustrating Robert E. Howard's "Black Colossus." Brundage's cover models get more clothes and more perversity as time passes.
There's something of a scarcity of weirdness in this issue. The Howard story and Jack Williamson's GOLDEN BLOOD are long on well-written action scenes and short on spooks. Paul Ernst's "The Iron Man" is silly SF about a mad scientist transplanting a madman's brain into a giant robot. H. Warner Munn contributes "A Sprig of Rosemary," a stickily sentimental story of a little girl and a ghost that would have been more at home in Macfadden's mostly lame GHOST STORIES pulp than here. "The Last Drive," by H. Warner Munn is unintentionally comical and Derleth's "Nellie Foster" is a minor riff on Stoker's Bloofer Lady episode. The best-written story is easily Clark Ashton Smith's "Genius Loci," but it's not as weird as most of his work. The horror prize must go to Hugh B. Cave's "The Crawling Curse," a nightmarish, extremely pulpy tale of native revenge. Although my preference always runs to the creepy side of WT's contents, this issue demonstrates an impressive breadth of story types and the growing number of talented writers regularly haunting its pages.
There's something of a scarcity of weirdness in this issue. The Howard story and Jack Williamson's GOLDEN BLOOD are long on well-written action scenes and short on spooks. Paul Ernst's "The Iron Man" is silly SF about a mad scientist transplanting a madman's brain into a giant robot. H. Warner Munn contributes "A Sprig of Rosemary," a stickily sentimental story of a little girl and a ghost that would have been more at home in Macfadden's mostly lame GHOST STORIES pulp than here. "The Last Drive," by H. Warner Munn is unintentionally comical and Derleth's "Nellie Foster" is a minor riff on Stoker's Bloofer Lady episode. The best-written story is easily Clark Ashton Smith's "Genius Loci," but it's not as weird as most of his work. The horror prize must go to Hugh B. Cave's "The Crawling Curse," a nightmarish, extremely pulpy tale of native revenge. Although my preference always runs to the creepy side of WT's contents, this issue demonstrates an impressive breadth of story types and the growing number of talented writers regularly haunting its pages.
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September 29, 2024“The Last Drive”: Carl Jacobi: ⭐️⭐️⭐️: Set your parking brake and chock at least one wheel.
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