The Robert E. Howard Omnibus: 99 Collected Stories (Halcyon Classics)

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Howard is best known today for creating the sword-and-sorcery hero Conan, subject of three movies and dozens of books.

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However, during his short life Howard also published stories in a number of other genres. Howard committed suicide in This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Read more Read less. Enabled Similar books to The Robert E.

The Robert E. Howard Omnibus: 99 Collected Stories (Halcyon Classics)

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A very good Robert E. Howard sampler, and it's possible to go directly to each story. If you're not aquainted with Howard, here's your chance. He's known mostly for heroic adventure, usually in a fantasy setting, but he wrote horror and humor, westerns and boxing stories as well--not to mention some excellent historical pieces. This collection includes western--humorous and otherwise--Solomon Kane stories, horror, historical adventure, Kul, Bran Mak Morn, Cormac FitzGeoffrey, boxing stories, and a substantial majority of the Conan tales.

Other than his poetry, you'll have to dig a bit to find Howard material not represented. Contents include at least two novels--"Hour of the Dragon" and "Almuric"--and a great many novellas any one of which would be worth the purchase price. I already own most of Robert E. If that's what you're looking for I strongly recommend getting the Del Rey versions instead because this is missing a bunch of the stories featuring Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn.

I bought this because I wanted to read Howard's lesser known works, especially his boxing stories but also his westerns and historical fictions. So far I am not disappointed. I can't vouch for completeness, but this collection has A LOT of those stories. For example it includes more Sailor Steve Costigan stories than Conan stories. According to reviews, a number of the cheap Howard collections for Kindle are badly formatted.

This one is not. It includes an incredibly helpful hyperlinked table of contents that is divided into stories featuring each protagonist or genre. Looking for Conan stories? I flipped through a couple of the Conan stories in the beginning before skipping ahead to read Howard's early Sailor Steve Costigan take Fist and Fang.

In each case the formatting is excellent, divided into readable paragraphs, including all punctuation, and with no spelling orders that I have found yet. This is certainly one of the better formatted Howard collections excluding of course the professional Del Rey publications. It is written in colloquial first person with sentences like, "So me and the Old Man decided to Howard could spin a great yarn.

Lastly a note for people who are new to Howard: Howard lived in s rural Texas.

As you might expect his writings have a good deal of racism and sexism. Acknowledge the archaic attitudes when you see them, but don't let them stop you from enjoying first class stories. One person found this helpful. There is no way on earth to get more Robert E. Howard stories for your buck than by buying this particular work.

However, this 'omnibus' does not include everything Robert E Howard ever wrote, as the title suggests. For example, if you are a fan of Conan primarily, I would recommend 'Conan the Cimmerian: Howard is a little more multi-dimensional than simple sword and sorcery, but most of his work has recurring themes which a lot of people find appealing.

They're certainly not like the sub-tolkien fantasy that seems to dominate a lot of the genre or did, back when I actually read a lot of fantasy. There's no quest for magical artifacts, or anything like that. And Conan's motivation for getting mixed up in the various adventures are certainly not heroic - he's either in it for the money, or just for the heck of it, cos he fancies a bit of a rumble. Many of the plots had a Lovecraftian feel to them, with Conan stumbling across forgotten civilizations of weird cults.

By no means is Howard a great writer, or Conan a wonderfully realized character, but I can see how he's been quite influential on the fantasy genre, if only as a bit of an antidote to the black and white Tolkienesque fantasy. No spoiler alert here. Conan the Cimmerian fight bad guy and win. Conan fight wizard and win. Conan get buxom wench and win. Story-wise there is no spoiler here, but the Conan character is far more complex than the movies and comic books portray.

He is multilingual, can read, and understand rudimentary math.

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I recently began reading Robert E. Often considered the father of fantasy by some, Conan books are the second-best selling fantasy line behind only J. The stories are simple good versus evil modality with a soiled enthusiastic hero embracing a quest of his own making. Given the chance to use a small word, Howard goes to the large word. His use of pronouns is also confusing.

It is not uncommon for Howard paragraphs to say something like Conan and Megzorda fought like lions until he raised his sword. Who raised his sword? You see that kind of thing, it can be confusing. Forgiving those two small distractions is easy given the quality of the adventures. I only read this for the Conan and Solomon Kane stories. Generally quite good, classic pulp fantasy stuff. The Conan stories in particular are mostly external and despite the time we spend with the barbarian we never really seem to get to know him as a person.

The cliches of pulp "sword and sorcery" is also all over the place. There is no shortage of pale-skinned women in scanty clothing, all of whom Conan desires and often gets. They are almost infantile in their characterizatio I only read this for the Conan and Solomon Kane stories. They are almost infantile in their characterization, with Conan mansplaining all over the place, setting them on his lap or knee for a good talking to, clutching at his chest when in danger, and generally being helpless nuisances.

Even when Howard introduces a female warrior who takes no flack from anyone and dislikes being rescued by men, she cannot resist Conan's obvious charms and finds herself liking the fact that he treats her like a helpless princess all the time. Still, there is a lot of fun to be had amid all the misogyny and occasional suspicious racist remarks. It was the s, after all. It contains three full-length novels: It also contains the Conan short novel Red Nails; in fact I believe it contains all the Conan stories.

In addition, it contains five Solomon Kane stories, four King Kull stories, twenty-four boxing stories, twenty Breckingridge Elkins stories westerns , and a wealth of other material. From Halcyon, the book features an interactive table of contents and seems pretty much free from typos. I have read a heap of these stories from Howard.

Not all of them by any means, but there is enough repetition in plotline, that I feel I can speak with some authority. There are only eleven Conan stories here why are more not included? Howard's pulp stories do draw me in though with their relentless movement.

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I enjoy the stoic hero and the conflict against evil give me Conan, Solomon Kane; not so much his box I have read a heap of these stories from Howard. I enjoy the stoic hero and the conflict against evil give me Conan, Solomon Kane; not so much his boxers and pirates , if not the stereotyped pictures of women either helpless, conniving, or passionately violent and of most racial and ethnic groups throughout history and pre-history. If you are going to call your collection an omnibus, you should think of including all of the stories that the person wrote.

What is even more galling, there is no copy-write protection on any of the stories that are missing from this collection. The list goes on. And they're all great. I bought this to have access to all the books whenever I enjoy the books a lot in a retro throwback kind of way. Fil rated it it was amazing Sep 05, Cureton rated it really liked it Apr 20, Joseph Erickson rated it really liked it Jul 26, Neil Ellis rated it it was amazing Jan 13, James rated it liked it Aug 23, Lisa rated it liked it Apr 19,

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