Robert Erwin Howard

The Profile

Robert Erwin Howard (1906–1936) was a Texas-born pulp fiction writer, creator of Conan and other characters, a contributor to Weird Tales and an associate of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. He died in 1936 after the death of his mother.

Creator of Conan and other pulp heroes; prominent writer in Weird Tales during the 1920s–1930s; central figure in the development of sword-and-sorcery as a subgenre of fantasy.

The provided review by Defender85 situates Robert Erwin Howard as a foundational pulp and sword-and-sorcery author, creator of Conan and other heroes. It describes the Hyborian setting and analyzes Conan's brutal, instinctive heroism versus later fantasy archetypes. The review treats The Hour of the Dragon (here: Conan Il Conquistatore) as a late, still-compelling climax of Howard's work.