Books about Robert E. Howard (Study Guide) - The Spell of Conan, the Conan Swordbook, the Blade of Conan, the Last Celt, Dark Valley Destiny (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Spell of Conan, the Conan Swordbook, the Blade of Conan, the Last Celt, Dark Valley Destiny, the Miscast Barbarian, One Who Walked Alone, Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Spell of Conan is a 1980 collection of essays, poems and fiction edited by L. Sprague de Camp, published in paperback by Ace Books. The material was originally published as articles in George H. Scithers' fanzine Amra. The book is a companion to Aces earlier volume of material from Amra, The Blade of Conan (1979). Most of the material in the two volumes, together with some additional material, was reprinted from three previous books issued in hardcover by Mirage Press; de Camps collection The Conan Reader (1968), and the de Camp and Scithers-edited anthologies The Conan Swordbook (1969). and The Conan Grimoire (1972). The book consists of thirty-seven pieces, mostly essays on fantasy writer Robert E. Howard and his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, Howard's sources and literary successors, and other fantasy authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Rucker Eddison, Lord Dunsany, Jack Vance, Fletcher Pratt, Leslie Barringer, Fritz Leiber, Sax Rohmer and Talbot Mundy. Some original material by Howard, a number of fantasy poems and a few fictional pieces are also included. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=748117