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(1906-1936) Robert Erwin Howard was born and rasied in rural Texas, where he lived all his life. The son of a pioneer physician, he began writing professionally at the age of fifteen. Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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BEST OF THE BEST,
By The Barbarian (Cimmeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Nails (Kindle Edition)
This is one of Robert E. Howard's (1906-1936) best stories ever! He's the creator of Conan, Bran Mak Morn, Red Sonja, Kull, Solomon Kane, and many other characters and even poetry and horror stories! He's the best writer and poet ever! It's Free!Red Nails starts out with a prehistoric monster chasing Valeria with Conan in hot pursuit. They climb a tree and from their the story gets really good. If you've never read a REH story you're in for a real treat! Read Red Nails for free and then get the REH Ominbus 99 stories for only $1.99 and read other outstanding stories he's written. Beyond The Black River, Red Nails, and Tower of The Elephant are three of my favorite REH Conan stories. Other suggested REH stories: Blood and Thunder, The Life and Art of REH by Mark Finn, One Who Walked Alone by Novalyne Price Ellis his girlfriend, The Dark Barbarian by Don Herron, The Collected Letters Vol 1-3 of REH, The Collected Poetry of REH, and Two-Gun Bob.
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Conan meets George Barr,
This review is from: Red Nails (Hardcover)
One of the better Robert E. Howard tales of Conan, this novella has Conan in amorous pursuit of the adventuress and former pirate, Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. Valeria remains stand-offish and wary of Conan's advances, but action is precipitated in the form of a dinosaur that flushes them out of the jungle across a dry plain to the traditional lost city. There they meet two factions of a dying race, locked in a death struggle to exterminate each other. Blood, death, degeneracy, lust, and ancient magic mix in equal parts from there.The distinctiveness of this volume is that this is the first form where the story stands alone, published without being part of a collection or pulp magazine serialization. My copy has held up well physically over 35 years, as all my Donald M. Grant publications have. Fantasy illustrator George Barr has four color plates (attached to colored pages rather than bound in), four full-page line illustrations, and seven half-page chapter page illustrations, with some odds and ends thrown in. Barr is an interesting choice for Conan, since he is less of the blood and guts type (Frazetta). The color illustrations, which are his usual softer colorizations dependent more on design than action (though he does throw in one scene of frenzied mayhem) are very different in execution from his ink work, which depend on heavily contoured lines. This remains my favorite of all the Conan novels that Donald M. Grant published, both for the story and the illustrations.
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This review is from: Red Nails (Kindle Edition)
Conan is travelling, finds a dead woman, and then encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood. After trading some insults, they have the misfortune to stumble across a dragon.Then they have fun in an abandoned city full of crazed warriors, two evil, leering royals, and a third undead type one. Capture, bondage, slayage, all the great stuff in this tale of a fantastic partnership.
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