Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
by Willard P. Oliver
University of North Texas Press, 2025
Cloth: 978-1-57441-963-4 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-974-0
Library of Congress Classification PS3515.O842Z83 2025
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.52
TOC
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Prologue: Cross Plains, Texas, March 1932
Chapter 1: “I Seek a Vicarious Pride in My Ancestry”
Chapter 2: Dr. Isaac and Hester Ervin Howard, 1870–1906
Chapter 3: A Peripatetic Childhood, 1906–1915
Chapter 4: Post Oak Country, 1915–1919
Chapter 5: Cross Plains, Texas, 1919
Chapter 6: Influential Authors, 1920–1922
Chapter 7: Brownwood, Texas, 1922–1923
Chapter 8: Struggling Author, 1923–1924
Chapter 9: Weird Tales, 1925
Chapter 10: On Werewolves and Horror Yarns, 1925
Chapter 11: “Ye College Days,” 1926–1927
Chapter 12: The Anguished Poet, 1927
Chapter 13: “The Last Celt,” 1927–1928
Chapter 14: Solomon Kane and Historical Fantasy, 1928
Chapter 15: Steve Costigan and the Boxing Yarns, 1929
Chapter 16: King Kull and the Birth of Sword and Sorcery, 1929
Chapter 17: “Lovecraft, One of the Greatest Writers of Our Time,” 1930
Chapter 18: Bran Mak Morn and the Picts, 1930
Chapter 19: Oriental Stories, The Magic Carpet, and Historical Fiction, 1931
Photo Gallery
Chapter 20: The Cthulhu Mythos, 1931
Chapter 21: Westerns both Strange and True, 1932
Chapter 22: “Hither Came Conan, the Cimmerian,” 1932
Chapter 23: Steve Harrison and the Detective Yarns, 1933
Chapter 24: Breckenridge Elkins and the Tall Tale Yarns, 1934
Chapter 25: El Borak and the Adventure Yarns, 1934
Chapter 26: Novalyne Price, 1934–1935
Chapter 27: Dark Moods, 1935
Chapter 28: Spicy Pulps and Shudder Stories, 1936
Chapter 29: Future Texas Laureate, 1936
Chapter 30: “In the Realization That I Must Die,” 1936
Epilogue: “All Fled, All Done”
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
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