‘Ye Are Men’
Reconsidering Robert E. Howard
© 2017 James LaFond
JUN/15/17
No into the third of five volumes on the literature of Robert E. Howard, I believe it is time to plumb his heroic subtext and themes in another way. I will begin concentrating on completing a survey and impression of each of Howard’s primary pre-Conan heroes, those heroes which seem to antedate his apex creation: Kull, Kane and Mak Morn.
I will begin these major character studies with King Kull, barbarian usurper of Valusia, a cautionary hero, whose adventures in many ways predicts our current political and social landscape in the early Postmodern Period, the character most like Conan—his truest prototype—a doomed hero king, a character type who had been “swept into eternity” by the tidal scope of human events centuries before Howard’s birth.
the year the world took the z-pill
logic of force
fanatic
into leviathan’s maw
the fighting edge
night city
the gods of boxing
winter of a fighting life
dark, distant futures
the greatest boxer
on combat
under the god of things
triumph
solo boxing
on the overton railroad
when you're food
uncle satan
the greatest lie ever sold
the sunset saga complete
barbarism versus civilization
fate
songs of aryas
let the world fend for itself
honor among men
sorcerer!
menthol rampage
within leviathan’s craw
masculine axis
your trojan whorse
by the wine dark sea
blue eyed daughter of zeus
orphan nation
all-power-fighting
fiction anthology one
advent america
song of the secret gardener
book of nightmares
cracker-boy
the combat space
wife—
beasts of aryas
z-pill forever
son of a lesser god
broken dance
hate
america the brutal
sons of aryas
ranger?
predation
taboo you
the lesser angels of our nature
the first boxers
logic of steel
time & cosmos
thriving in bad places