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The Thrall Let Fall
A Well of Heroes: Outline
© 2016 James LaFond
APR/10/16
“Conn the thrall let fall a huge armload of logs before the cavernous fire-place and faced about to meet the gaze of his somber master.”
-Spears of Clontarf
In charting one writer’s impressions of Robert E. Howard’s diverse body of heroic—and often fragmentary—literature, over the course of multiple volumes, the adoption of a thematic, rather than chronological, genre-based, or protagonist-based treatment of the subject has been developed. Below is the scheme by which each volume of the series shall be written. The concept is to examine one major work according to all seven of the mythic dimensions that were the mainstays of Howard’s approach, and to focus more austerely—though by no means exclusively—on the most prevalent dimension of lesser works. The series is expected to run to five volumes.
1. Well of Heroes: essays on Robert E. Howard’s use of the mythic dimension
2. A Marcher of Valhalla: an extensive impressionistic review of one of Howard’s novella- or novel-length works, beginning with Almuric and ending with The Hour of the Dragon. A thumbnail version of the review of these major works will also be present in this or another volume
3. Trails: fiction strongly focused on the protagonist’s relationship to the environment
4. Barbarism: fiction set beyond the bounds of civilization
5. Civilization: fiction expressed in decadent settings
6. Race: fiction strongly focused on race and ancestry
7. Dream: poetry, as well as prose fiction strongly focused on the dreamscape
8. Gulfs: fiction that is informed by a dread of the extra-human dimension
9. Cataclysm: fiction which focuses on a protagonist caught up in a paradigm shift
10. Cairns: Third-person impressions of Howard’s fiction
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Trails
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into leviathan’s maw
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america the brutal
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ranger?
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blue eyed daughter of zeus
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thriving in bad places
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fate
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song of the secret gardener
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advent america
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broken dance
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night city
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within leviathan’s craw
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taboo you
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orphan nation
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the greatest lie ever sold
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under the god of things
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book of nightmares
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cracker-boy
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by the wine dark sea
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the fighting edge
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the gods of boxing
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on the overton railroad
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the first boxers
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sons of aryas
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uncle satan
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wife—
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dark, distant futures
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beasts of aryas
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songs of aryas
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menthol rampage
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the sunset saga complete
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the greatest boxer
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fiction anthology one
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honor among men
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predation
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the combat space
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your trojan whorse
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sorcerer!
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on combat
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z-pill forever
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barbarism versus civilization
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hate
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solo boxing
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the lesser angels of our nature
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logic of steel
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winter of a fighting life
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time & cosmos
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all-power-fighting
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when you're food
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triumph
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son of a lesser god
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the year the world took the z-pill
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logic of force
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