Lord of Samarcand: An Adventure, Post-1930, Pulp Classic By Robert E. Howard! AAA+++

by Robert E. Howard, BDP (Editor)

Overview

In The Lord of Samarcand we are presented with all of Robert E. Howard's historical tales of the Orient. Howard was drawn to this form by his interest in history, but also through his admiration for the historical and adventure works of Harold Lamb (1892-1962), an author who, unlike Howard, had been widely published in the prestigious pulp magazine Adventure. The Lord of Samarcand includes Howard's short summary of Lamb's The Wolf Chaser. As with the other volumes of this series the editor has, whenever possible returned to the original typescripts to obtain the texts presented here.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014780810
Publisher:	BDP
Publication date:	06/11/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	73 KB

About the Author

Robert Ervin Howard (1906¿1936) wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard spent time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing—which he also wrote stories about. His tales of heroic & supernatural fantasy won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist.