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\u201cHither came Conan\u2026\u201d\nThe world\u2019s most famous barbarian comes to The Appendix N Podcast to tread the\nworks of lesser fantasy authors beneath his sandled feet. We are talking about\nthe earliest Conan stories written by Robert E. Howard, though not necessarily\nthe first published.\n\n\xa0www.nobleknight.com\n\n\xa0Howard, R. E.:\n\u201cConan\u201d series\n\nRobert E. Howard\nborn 1906, died 1936\n\nBorn in Texas, the only son of a traveling country physician. Traveling with\nhis father exposed him to firsthand tales of violence that would\xa0influence\nhis writing, and like many people of the time he was greatly interested in the\nsport of boxing. Howard\u2019s love of poetry and literature\xa0came from his\nmother, Hester. His earliest stories were historical fiction about Vikings,\nArabs and lots of violence. His earliest influences\xa0were Jack London,\nRudyard Kipling and Thomas Bullfinch.\n\nIn August 1930, Howard wrote to\xa0Weird Tales\xa0in praise \u201cThe Rats\nin the Walls\u201d by H. P. Lovecraft. The\xa0letter was forwarded to Lovecraft\nand the two authors became friends. Howard is considered to have contributed to\nthe Lovecraft Mythos. The\xa0correspondence between Howard and Lovecraft\ncontained a lengthy discussion on a frequent element in Howard\u2019s writing,\ncivilization versus\xa0barbarism. Howard held that civilization was\ninherently corrupt and fragile.\n\nHoward wrote his first Conan story in 1932, adapting an unpublished story \u201cBy\nThis Axe I Rule!\u201d featuring one of Howard\u2019s other\xa0protagonists, Kull the\nConqueror. Conan would go on to become Howard\u2019s most enduring character.\n\nHoward sadly committed suicide in 1936 upon learning that his mother was dying\nof tuberculosis.\n\n\u201cThe Phoenix on the Sword\u201d first published in\xa0Weird Tales, December\n1932\n\u201cThe Frost Giant\u2019s Daughter\u201d first published as \u201cThe Gods of the North\u201d\nin\xa0Weird Tales, 1932\n\u201cThe God in the Bowl\u201d reject by\xa0Weird Tales, published posthumously\nin\xa0Space Science Fiction, September 1952\n\n\xa0\n\nCo-host:\n\nJeffrey Wikstrom\n\nwebsite -\xa0jeffwik.com\n\nemail -\xa0jeffwik@gmail.com\n\n\xa0\n\nMy guest:\n\nPeter Foxhoven\n\n\xa0\n\nhttp://www.thetomeshow.com\n\nthetomeshow@gmail.com\n\n\xa0\n\nGeoffrey Winn\ngdwinn@comcast.net\n\n\xa0Support the show, shop below...NOBLE KNIGHT