Robert Ervin Howard

Robert E. Howard fue una de las principales figuras de la revista Weird Tales durante la década de los 30, además de amigo y corresponsal de H. P. Lovecraft desde 1930.

I first became conscious of him as a coming leader just a decade ago—when (on a bench in Prospect Park, Brooklyn) I read Wolfshead. I had read his two previous short tales with pleasure, but without especially noting the author. Now—in ‘26—I saw that W.T. had landed a new big-timer of the CAS and EHP calibre. Nor was I ever disappointed in the zestful and vigorous newcomer. He made good—and how! Much as I admired him, I had no correspondence with him till 1930—for I was never a guy to butt in on people. In that year he read the reprint of my Rats in the Walls...

—HPL Selected Letters vol. 5

Las principales aportaciones de REH al corpus de los Mitos fueron: el tomo "Nameless Cults" de von Junzt, aparecido por vez primera en los relatos "The Children of the Night" (1931) y "The Black Stone" (1931) y "The People of the Monolith", obra del poeta loco Justin Geoffrey.

Lovecraft redactó esta breve biografía de Robert E. Howard (incluída en una carta a F. Lee Baldwin con fecha de 16 de febrero de 1935):

Hope you can get a good biography of Robert E. Howard. Wish I had time to delve into his voluminous letters & get some of the facts buried there, but at the moment I can give only a few points from memory. REH was born in Texas in 1906, of old Southwestern & Southern stock. The Howard line came from England to Georgia in 1735. The Ervin line has produced men of high standing & ability Confederate officers, planters, Texas pioneers. A large part of REH’s blood is Irish, & he takes great pride in his knowledge of Celtic history & antiquities. He lives with his parents in a village from which pioneer violence has not yet fully departed. His father is a physician of high standing, & great courage & resourcefulness, who once fought a knife duel with one hand tied behind his back. REH is a typical primitive throwback in emotions—idealising barbaric & pioneer life. He hated school—yet loved books so much that he used to force open a window of the school library in the summer, when it was closed, in order to take & return things he wanted to read. He is today a really profound authority—on Southwestern history & folklore—as well as on ancient history. He began to write stories very young, but takes very little pride in them—saying he’d rather be a good prize-fighter than a good novelist. Being brought up in a rough town, he came to accept rough ways as a matter of course. He has been through dozens of fights, with & without weapons, & has served as an amateur boxer. I think he was once connected in some way with a travelling carnival. I judge he was rather a roving character in his teens—away from home a good deal. He says he feels most at home among rough workmen, & has passionately strong sympathies for the under-dog despite a personally aristocratic ancestry. He is very bitter & cynical in temperament—but kindly & sympathetic at the same time. Extremely brave & conscientious. At one time during his teens he worked at a drug store soda fountain. He has seen a good deal of the rough life of oil boom towns, & hotly resents the way large eastern corporations exploit Texas. When he says his life is ‘tame & uneventful’, he is thinking only of Western standards. Actually, he sees a vast amount of violence. He sympathises greatly with outlaws, & is really a fanatic on the subject of alleged police persecutions—unjust arrests, 3d degree, &c. His fetishes are strength, civility, justice, & freedom. Everything civilised, soft, effeminate, or orderly he hates with astonishing venom. In ancient history he detests Rome as strongly as I revere it. He travels occasionally in Texas & the S. W.—has seen the Carlsbad Caverns & sometimes spends the winter in San Antonio. Has never been east of New Orleans. First stories published in W.T. in 1925 or 6. A poet of savagely great power. So fond of his Celtic heritage that he has Gaelicised his middle name Ervin into Eiarbihan—as the fanatics in Ireland nowadays Gaelicise theirs. Tastes in literature somewhat uneven—despises all modern subtlety & likes books about simple characters & violent events. Would rather be a Celtic barbarian of 100 or 200 B. C. than a civilised modern. I’d show you some of his letters if he hadn’t asked me not to let anybody see them.

Howardworks.com es una excelente web con todas las obras de Robert E. Howard (ediciones, año de publicación, portadas originales... )

Creaciones
▲Título▼	▲C▼	▲Año▽	▲V▼	▲Concepto▼
Black Eons (junto a Robert M. Price)		2001	—	Escritor
The Spell of Damballah	?	1987	—	Escritor
Dagon Manor (junto a C.J. Henderson)	?	1986	—	Escritor
All Hallows Eve	?	1986	—	Escritor
Voices in the Night		1977	—	Escritor
The Shadow of the Beast		1977	6.00	Escritor
The Door of the World		1977	—	Escritor
The Dwellers Under the Tomb	?	1976	—	Escritor
The Abbey	?	1975	—	Escritor
Spectres in the Dark	?	1974	—	Escritor
Serpent Vines		1974	—	Escritor
The Black Bear Bites	?	1974	—	Escritor
Casonetto's Last Song	?	1973	—	Escritor
Marchers of Valhalla		1972	—	Escritor
The House in the Oaks (junto a August Derleth)	?	1971	6.00	Escritor
The Noseless Horror	?	1970	—	Escritor
The Little People		1970	—	Escritor
The Hoofed Thing		1970	—	Escritor
A Song of the Race		1969	—	Escritor
Restless Waters	?	1969	—	Escritor
Men of the Shadows	?	1969	—	Escritor
The Ghost in the Doorway	?	1969	—	Escritor
Fragment		1969	—	Escritor
Foreword (to "Worms of the Earth")		1969	—	Escritor
Delenda Est		1968	—	Escritor

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Neddam

02-07-2019 10:46

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Antologías con sus relatos si que hay unas cuantas, pero me imagino que lo que pides es demasiado específico, no sé si Howard tiene tanta chicha como para que pudiera cundir una enciclopedia de su trabajo.

Entropía

02-07-2019 11:07

15348 mensajes ●

↕ 20 minutos ↕

Sobre todo, que no era tan conexo como el de HPL. REH tenía relatos de fantasía, de boxeo, de pseudoshistoria...

Saludos,

Entro

JonathanStrange Bibliotecario

02-07-2019 11:53

2140 mensajes ●

↕ 45 minutos ↕

De Howard tengo los Collected Works de Delphi Classics que debe tenerlo (casi) todo. Trasteando he encontrado este enlace y The Robert E. Howard Guide, pero nada en la onda de lo que indica Entro; a lo máximo de Conan.

Mi interés es al hilo de toda la polémica de Open Cthulhu, al indicarse que Raiders of R'lyeh había apostado por la obra de Howard y que quizás por eso también se había escapado.

PD: ¿Yo amigo del Sr. Norrell? Pues sería al final...

¡Gracias!

Entropía

02-07-2019 12:00

15348 mensajes ●

↕ 7 minutos ↕

Tal como dijo JonathanStrange aquí:

PD: ¿Yo amigo del Sr. Norrell? Pues sería al final...

Ni idea, no me lo he leído. Demasiado largo.

Saludos,

Entro

JonathanStrange Bibliotecario

02-07-2019 12:04

2140 mensajes ●

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Tal como dijo Entropía aquí:

Ni idea, no me lo he leído. Demasiado largo.

Exagerao. Si son 796 páginas de nada...

Entropía

06-08-2021 14:21

15348 mensajes ●

↕ 2 años ↕

Los aficionados a Conan están de enhorabuena: Minotauro anuncia tres tomos con todas las historias de Conan de Cimmeria escritas por Robert E. Howard.

Tal como se dijo aquí:

Una preciosa edición de lujo en estuche, que contará además con una nueva cubierta ilustrada por Esteban Maroto y coloreada por Santi Casas.

Saludos,

Entro

Entwistle

25-08-2021 10:09

6007 mensajes ◕

↕ 18 días ↕

Tal como dijo Entropía aquí:

Tal como dijo JonathanStrange aquí:

PD: ¿Yo amigo del Sr. Norrell? Pues sería al final...

Ni idea, no me lo he leído. Demasiado largo.

Saludos,

Entro

Uy lo que ha dicho... Dale una oportunidad hombre, que se pasa volao...

Tal como dijo Entropía aquí:

Los aficionados a Conan están de enhorabuena: Minotauro anuncia tres tomos con todas las historias de Conan de Cimmeria escritas por Robert E. Howard.

Tal como se dijo aquí:

Una preciosa edición de lujo en estuche, que contará además con una nueva cubierta ilustrada por Esteban Maroto y coloreada por Santi Casas.

Saludos,

Entro

Otro libro para hacer pesas, según parece. Sonrisa