Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction.No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarian’s Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg - HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2v- HorrorBabble’s Cthulhu Mythos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJDIvebdG8U- HorrorBabble's Robert E Howard: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoO6mZ5jR57W1tVS4iD82jG6&si=evYk--G8lir37YtNWRITE PULP!- Flash Pulp: Join us as we recreate the spirit of the pulps with Flash Pulps — 500-1,500 word stories packed with cheap thrills, lurid subjects, purple prose, and daring adventure. Enjoy our collection, and feel free to contribute your own!- Flash Pulp Collection: https://pastebin.com/G4g4Z9YT- Bet Pulp: Want to challenge yourself? Post a BET — literally, type the word “BET” — then reply to your post with a complete 6K-word story within a week to complete the challenge.- BET Pulp Collection: https://pastebin.com/fXAmPuD4- The Grinder - A website that lists fiction magazines with submission openings. For the aspiring pulp writer who wants to take things to another level.EXTRA! EXTRA!So you want to write pulp but don’t know how, say?- Lester Dent Formula: https://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html- Write Compelling Dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpWKp-fnZuU- Basic Pulp Template: https://files.catbox.moe/t5c17o.zip
My favourite Conan stories are the heist/roguish ones. Tower of the Elephant, Rogues in the House.Really grand. Would love more examples of stories like that (not Conan necessarily) from anons.
>>24743885The Frost-Giant's Daughter is my favorite. It's so short, but shocking and powerful, and is the story I can remember vividly. Even in Howard's early days of writing, he was excellent.
>>24743874REH was the greatest
>>24743969Indeed.
Nice to see the general is back. Are you one of the original anons from this thread?
>>24744091I posted replies in previous threads, but never contributed any work. I just copied the last thread because I want to discuss pulp.One of the works of a previous anon, "The Skull" popped into my mind in the shower a few nights ago, and I've been reading much Conan recently, so..
>>24744100When was the last thread made? A few months by now?
>>24744148Many months ago.Sadly it doesn't seem that there are that many people on /lit/ who are very keen on the pulps. The Sword & Sorcery / fantasy generals seem to do very well though.
Somehow /pg/ returns . . .Neat. I wanted to dump this piece somewhere. Even if it’s on the shorter side.
>>24743959The opening face off with the Viking warlord is so fucking hard. >tell me your name so my brothers know who was the last to fall to my blade >you can tell them in Valhalla that you met Conan!
>>24743885I gotta give it to Red Nails myself.
>>24744596Pretty good, thank you for sharing.
>>24744596Wow Timmy’s a psychopath
>>24743874Man, Project Gutenberg has got a lot of pulps recently. Wish they would organize them better.
Can anyone recommend me something pulpy with a more "oriental" vibe?
Who do you guys think was the best horror pulp writer besides Lovecraft? I think it was Manly Wade Wellman.
>>24746074What do you like about him? Any reccomendations?
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>starting exercising>starting reading pulps>depression and anxiety fades>become energetic and ambitiousIt just works, I guess
>>24746950This but I don't exercise.>spend my early 20s agonizing over writing "a great work">discover pulp>writing is fun again
>>24746958There is just something special about pulps. The energy. The active heroism. I've never been much into writing. But I was getting bored with reading. Too many classics and contemporary works that just didnt inspire or interest me. When I read stuff like The Shadow and Doc Savage, I actually get excited for life. It may sound cringe in this cynical world, but pulps make we want to be heroic.
>>24746222The entire John the Balladeer cycle is excellent.It's basically an occult detective series set in the hills of rural Appalachia. It's like a urban fantasy setting but well....rural? I guess rural fantasy? it's got hollers,old mountains towns, pagan magic mixed with southern christian stuff. If you like stuff like Hellboy, John Constantine, the dresden files, even supernatural, you'll probably like it.
>>24743885My favorite is the people of the black circle. It hints at the epic scale that Tolkien would eventually achieve with the fantasy genre, but retains the fast pace and general strangeness which characterized the pulps. Not to mention Howard's prose, which is at its best here. Fun, macabre, and almost poetic; Conan at his best
>>24745680Clark Asthon Smith's Zothique. Imagine Berserk plus Arabian Nights
>>24743874Semi-related. What's your opinion of the new Conan comics by Titan?They had a crossover event with a lot of REH characters in Battle for the Black Stone.
>>24748466I just ordered the first collection of the comics from my local comic shop, I'm curious to see what it's like.I'm thinking of reading "The Coming of Elric" which was a crossover where Conan and Elric face off.
I’ve been on a Conan binge recently. Bob Howard was a better writer at 30 than most writers will ever be. Next up is Shadows in Zamboula.
>>24748569Zamboula is in the Conquering Sword? That's the last of the Del Rey books for me to acquire.
Wrote this a few months ago. I've been wanting to write more pulpy tales about a living bog man. Inspired by the Grauballe Man. I've tried to submit it for Castle Jackal Magazine vol. 10. I'm ESL so let me know if there are things I could to better.
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>>24748879"Scantily little" sounds tad awkward and I think is rather tautological.Otherwise, the tallow candle imagery was very nice. You need to put a comma between "if you could call the two horrible cavities in his head that" and "fell on the foal's crystal..."Coolly atmospheric.
>>24748890Thanks for the feedback, I will make the changes right away.
>>24748249>dying earth settingI'm sold, thanks anon
And so, /pg/ goes back into the dark nights and abysses of its Stygian origin...
>>24748536>I'm thinking of reading "The Coming of Elric" which was a crossover where Conan and Elric face off.I didn't knew they had a crossover, I did knew Kain and Elric had a crossover tho.
I wish there was a place where I could publish or post some of the pulpy short stories I've written. Writing for the sake of writing is cool and all, but knowing that when you're done with something it's just gonna rot on your hard drive does kind of take the oomph out of it. I remember one time somebody on /lit/ made a thread about a pulp magazine that was taking submission and I ended up banging out a 3000 word story in a couple of days and submitting it. I found it really fun and exciting, knowing you're actually writing towards a certain end. The golden era of pulps where you had dozens of magazines taking whatever must have been amazing from a writer's perspective.
BET
>>24751283I know man. I wish there was a good, open source type sit to upload pulp stories, maybe something like the creepy pasta wiki back in the day.
>>24752344Something like r/no sleep would be cool. I once again have to mention an idea I had for a shared universe of super hero stories using public domain characters. Capeshit is the new big genre after all.
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>>24751283>>24752344https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/
>>24746074Raymond Chandler for me, although I liked Dashiell Hammett but idk if he's a pulp writer/
>>24748249Thanks again for this, I've been loving it so far. If you can think of anything else in the same vein, I'd be happy for more recommendations
>>24743874I've heard Hyne's Lost Continent is pretty good and underrated.
>>24755804Forgot picture
>>24743874>The Grinder - A website that lists fiction magazines with submission openings. For the aspiring pulp writer who wants to take things to another level.Can I get the link? I’m not trying to look up grinder bro
>>24755812>reptile>pyramid>volcano>masonic checkerboard floorI'm going to have to check this out.
>>24756303>>24753844
Finished The Shadow vs The Five Chameleons. It was pretty touch-and-go, but The Shadow pulled through. Evil doers beware.
I think pulp fiction is higher quality than most literature written now because it doesnt suck its own. You get more originality in pulp than anywhere else now.
>>24757345The fun factor definitely helps creativity. And the publishing schedule as well. Also the pulp authors were well-educated and very literate, despite the reputation pulps had for being low-brow.
>>24757458>The fun factor definitely helps creativity. And the publishing schedule as well. Also the pulp authors were well-educated and very literateWell said, anon
The Repairer of Reputations is my favorite horror short story
>>24753291The problem with r/nosleep is that its rules fucking suck
>>24757345Pulp fiction is superior to most literature because some of the things that prevent literature from being more desired or a "must-read" is the sheer complexity of the prose, the references to high-brow culture, and the fact that to get the most enjoyment out of the book, one must put a shit ton of work into it. None of this is inherently awful or wrong, but it does block a little more than half of the population from even looking in the direction of the classics due to feeling overwhelmed, not to mention the accumulation of midwits and snobs who surround high art and shit on anyone who doesn't share their interests while punching down on people who actually are brighter than them.You have to go through SO MUCH to understand literature, and even when you do, you're stuck with a club of circlejerking assholes who make discussing the book a pain because things devolve into ego-stroking and repetitive discourse that doesn't challenge the status quo that comes to surround the story. And this isn't something limited to books, the same thing is found with movies.
>>24757458I always found it funny how Stephen King wanted pulp fiction to be taken seriously by academia but then couldn't really make any pulp fiction that is on the level of the classic all-time great pulps. It's not to say that his works aren't bad, they're just nowhere near the level of REH or Lovecraft or Moorcock or PKD.
>>24759146Didn't he shit on the Conan stories for a while? I know Moorcock did.
Have any successful pulp authors from the past written anything about how to write successful pulps? The only thing of that sort I know of is Lester Dent's formula.
>>24759228The more I learn about Moorcock, the more I sometimes dislike him.How can you dislike Conan or The Lord of the Rings?
This thread have any Thieves Eorld niggas?Loved those books as a kid
>>24759334I have the first book, but haven't read it yet.I became interested because The Spoony One covered the roleplaying game setting in his Counter Monkey series on YouTube.
>>24759132Pulp fiction is legitimately fun, enjoyable, and inspiring. And its action from page one. AS I get older, I respect narrow arts more and more. Pulp is just action. That is it. And the authors are capable of writing incredible stories in such narrow limits. Its like PG Wodehouse. I am convinced he is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. But what is more incredible is that he only wrote light English comedies. He staying in very tight artistic limit and flourished.Maybe writers allow themselves too big a scope, and their writing becomes bland. If they were forced by publishers to stay within very narrow limits, it may help writing in general.
>go in pulp fiction thread>it’s all bros talking about cool action stories and based book recommendations while also encouraging eachother to write their own short stories >go in fantasy literature thread>theres faggots badmouthing Tolkien and C.S LewisHonestly /lit/ could learn a thing or two from you guys, also since this is a pulp thread anyone remember the original Tarzan stories? My grandpa read them to me when I was a kid but have a hard time finding them and remembering the reading order I’d appreciate a few tips on where to buy a full collection since it was such a important part of my childhood
>>24760551I read the first one recently and loved it. Real fun book. I dont know about buying a collection. I read a PG ebooks.
>>24760551Imo the best way to get into the Tarzan novels is the paperback omnibus editions, Tarzan: The Novels: Volume 1 and 2 . First 9 novels, not totally shit quality build, and as a point of personal preference, larger pages without a larger font. Kinda awkward on a shelf though desu. As for buying all of them, you'll probably end up having to mix and match different printings, but start with Volume 1, the first 5 novels are by far the best, so if you lose interest you won't be burdened with like 30 novels.Personally I think Tarzan isn't as good as his Barsoom novels, so if you like Tarzan there are a million omnibus editions of the first few Barsoom novels as well.
>>24743874I want to get into Elric of Melbourne but I want to do it via publication order. What's the best path way to it ?
>>24761291https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock_bibliography#Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9click the arrow and sort by publishing order
>>24760551>My grandpa read them to me when I was a kidThat's a really cozy memory to have. Wish I could have experienced something like that.I would like to read Tolkien to my children one day, if I ever have any.
>>24759323He's an anarchist. Which explains why he's so endlessly whiny about the foundations of the fantasy genre
>>24751283>I wish there was a place where I could publish or post some of the pulpy short stories I've written.spacebattles.com
>>24762649That place is awful
What lessons does pulp have to offer in terms of writing stories with meaning?
>>24743874I'm writing my own Conan/Slaine stories, but he's an alien on a strange alien world. >>24759323>>24762077Deep down, Moorecock is just really really inmature. That's why he acts like a spoiled brat everytime he can.
>>24764096The takeaway from pulp is that you should be blunt and precise with what you want to convey to an audience. Both modern novels and literature glazed by academics struggle with problems born from an author spending too much time on a novel in its entirety (the story is either depthless or faux-deep). What matters most is getting your shit out quickly and efficiently but with enough passion, background knowledge, and craft behind it so that it can still stand out on its own while not being pretentious or overly complex. It's like pumping a balloon with air or carving a soap sculpture. You get it done, you let it be, and you move on.
>Me after getting rich from writing a story where the character gets rich
>>24761515Yeah my grandpa was the best.>I would like to read Tolkien for my children one day, if I ever have any. You will bro, you will be a based father one day and read cool stories to your kids.
>>24764303I think Moorcock was a phenomenal writer, the eternal champion cycle is among the best in fantasy (all fantasy, not just the pulp or Sword & sorcery thing) yet dispite all of it, all the influence and success he’s had, he still manages to be bitter and resentful. I guess it’s cause he’s a commie.
>>24762109Good luck, anon.
>>24764096Top of my head, first thing in the morning:1. The story has to be interesting from page one. 2. People love active heroism.3. Its like, the energy a person write with gets translated into the story. And I swear there is something like, if a person want to get better at writing and storytelling, the best way is to just write a lot. Dont get lost in attempting to edit a story into perfection. Write a decent story, and then move onto the next one.
>>24764339kek literally the life of Clive Cussler
>>24743874Question: are there things that can exclude a story from being called pulp?Would a specific type of setting or added length make it just a regular story.I ask cause I have two ideas of stories that I'd say are more for the action and concept than anything that deep. But one story would make me want to heaven a sizable bit of talking and me rambling about the world and the other is Cyber-FantasyWould that excuplude it?
>>24765072Thanks. 850words so far.
>>24765187Yeah, if it is too long it stops being pulp
>>24765187The first rule of writing pulp is have fun!The second rule is be giga
Are there any /pg/ recommendation charts? Looking for more recs (old and new)
>>24766358Idk, Hour of the Dragon is 300 pages and I'd still consider it pulp.
>>24767239Isn't it written somewhat episodically though?
>>24765187I would say that pulp is a kind of " you'll know it when you see it" type of thing. Genre and even length are secondary to that classic pulp style
>>24767239Haven't read that one, but I'm pretty sure the chapters can be enjoyed independently of each other if it was published episodically like >>24767690 Says
>>247656362900 words
>>24743874anyone know what pulps Tom Sawyer was supposedly reading?I kind of want to get my head filled with stories of robin hood, the knights of the round table, pirates, injuns and cowboys told trough the lens of 19th century kids magazinesis karl may considered pulp?this is what i fucking hate about the modern "woke" bullshit, they ruined mtg which was fundamentally pulp, their first expansion was arabian nights goddamnit, brass city and all. now we ve got black aragorn. i also hate that they made me wrote this last cringe paragraph
Newfag hereWhat are the BET post about?
>>24769515It's like a commitment you make to write something within a certain timeframe. You post BET and then within a week you're supposed to reply to your own post with a fully fledged 6000 word short story.
>>24759132Genuinely believe if middle school/high school incorporated these sorts of fun books/tales into the lessons more people would grow up to be readers. At a point students should be challenged but after learning how to read the next step should be trying to get them to love reading. Goosebumps at the book fair did more to foster that in the students around me than any assigned reading in any class I’ve had.
OP here. I'm going to do my own BET.I haven't written a story for years.
>>24769676Good luck have fun anon
>>24769585But anom, how would students learn to hate themselves and their country if they don't read the slop schools force them to read nowadays?
>>24769532I see, do i have to use a trip? Do I share it through catbox, rentry or pastebin?
>>24769945No trip necessary, catbox’d pdf. Check out previous submissions in the OP.
>>24769676600 words so far, just putting ideas forward at this point. I have a rough idea for how I want this to go.Based on this one page, would you guys read this? I don't feel it's that strong at present.
>>24743874Bump
>read weird tales>story about some terrible horror>the horror is revealed>it’s a giant ape, orangutang, or harambe demonmany such cases
I want to do the BET thing, but I'm an ESL and I'm not confident in my English
>>24771624You could write it in your native language, then translate it?
>>24745680Salammbo. Don't be scared by Flaubert, this shit is pure pulp.
>>24771750>Machine translationI rather kill myself desu
>>24771578Murder in the Rue Morgue was a let down for this precise reason.
I’ve been reading some of Josh Reynolds’ (the old black library writer) royal occultist stories. They’re good fun, and don’t take themselves too seriously. He’s super prolific too which is great - I guess when you’re a full time trash writer you can churn out a lot on the side while waiting for the next commission to come in.
>>24771578People were apparently terrified of apes back then, I remember Conan fought like three different monkey people. I guess they were a stand in for orcs since they hadn't been invented yet
>>24772430The ape man in Rogues in the House was the one time I was not necessarily scared of one, but could understand the fear he would incite.
>>24772430Turn of the 20th century is when zoos really started popping off in the US, maybe that had something to do with it. Imagine you're some yokel that's only seen farm animals and cats and dogs in his life, and all of the sudden you're looking at this half-man, half-beast chimera swinging around a cage. We take it for granted, but it must have been pretty freaky for some people.
Any good heist stories that aren't Conan?
>>24772621I'm writing one right now!>>24770232 Don't emphasize the word "good"
>>24771578One time it was a dead guy on the back of a feral camel where nobody had ever seen a camel. It roamed around for weeks, a smiling spooky skull skeleton guy riding a monster and actually killing people.
>>24773039there was one where a guy digs up a toad statue from an aztec ruin and takes it home. only for the toad statue to come to life at night and throw pebbles that pass through his skull and hit his brain, torturing him to death.
>>24773470The camel thing apparently really happened.
>>24773536Source?
>>24772746>I'm writing one right now!What's it about
>>24773637googled "dead guy on the back of a feral camel"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ghost_(folklore)
>>24773666I quoted it in the reply.
>>24771779It's spiritually pulp and a masterpieceFlaubert was a genius
>>24772575It's interesting seeing how real world trends like this effect fiction. I wonder how much of the fantasy genre can be attributed to this increase in knowledge that occurred in the first half of the 20th century
>>24772575I can't remember if it was Poe or who, but some old American writer once wrote a short locked room murder mystery story about *an orangutan* in Paris.
>>24775556Murder in the Rue Morgue.
>>24771624Me againIf i write it in English, would you guys read it without freaking out about grammar or ESLisms?
>>24776948Sure.
>>24776948No AI will literally edit it for free there's no excuse
>>24768787>>24765636>>24762109>>24765072I have failed.
>>24771779>>24774294When I read Salammbo it opened my eyes to how fake and gay the whole genre vs literature debate is. Here is a book that is simultaneously high literature and pulp fiction. They don't have to be mutually exclusive. The Western literary world just set up some arbitrary distinctions and categories over the years based some people's taste more than anything else.
>>24755100Dragon of Ishtar Gate and the Khilit the Cossack series are more examples of "historical" fiction that just comes off as pulp.
>>24777206ESLisms are nice to see these days because they're a sign AI hasn't touched it and the author has a pure heart
I’m part of a very small Venn diagram that likes old school pulp and LitRPG. I generally don’t think those two things should work together but somehow I found a story where they do. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/131113/skulltaker-litrpg-sword-sorcery-isekai
>>24772430>I guess they were a stand in for orcs since they hadn't been invented yetThey were a stand-in for negroes, Anon. Or in one case, injuns. Howard was pretty frank about this kind of thing, human devolution etcetera.
>>24777413>arbitrary distinctions and categories based on some people's taste more than anything elseWeirdly, the main relevant people were Flaubert's admirers. I'm not joking.
>>24771779>>24774294>>24777413Thanks guys, gonna pirate it right now>>24777437I finished the Ballantine Zothique collection, what a blast. I'll look into these as well
>>24777206Fuck off outta here, AI shill
>>24777437>Khlit the Cossack comes off as pulpAnon... it IS pulp, in the most literal way possible. Harold Lamb's stories were published in pulp magazines and inspired Two-Gun Bob's stories for the same magazines.>>24778081If you liked Zothique, try Hyperborea as well.
Are there any vampire or gothic pulps like Dracula? Is October and I have that inch again since I love vampires.
>>24779603>HyperboreaI've already started into the Hyperborea cycle. It's good but the Hyperborea setting doesn't have the magic of Zothique, for me personally. I'm looking for books that Edward Said would hate.
>>24744596Nice!
should I read this?
>>24780889>I'm looking for books that Edward Said would hate.In that case, you should try to find English translations of Emilio Salgari's Sandokan series.
>>24780394>I have that inch againAnon's one-incher springs up with joy at the thought of vampires.
>>24782005Yeah >T. Haven't read it yet
>>24782090Interesting, thanks anon
Deploying an emergency bump Also a requestRecommendations for western pulps
>>24744647Sorry I didn't respond earlier I was busy but:Yes, I particularly love the story not just for its shocking nature, but the fact that Howard used the Ancient Greek archetypes of Daphne and Apollo, but only switched their power structure.Instead of Daphne (the girl) a mortal and Apollo (the man) a god, he made "Atali" the god and Conan the mortal. Of course it's a nice little subversive trick, yet adds a sort of mysteriousness that Howard liked to put into his world. Conan the mortal is chasing the Frost Giant's Daughter in a lust-filled madness until she surprises him with her brothers, whom Conan kills, then when Conan is about to rape her, her divine father rescues her (compared to Apollo chasing Daphne in a love-filled madness until he caught her, then she prayed to her divine father Peneus, and turned her into a tree).
Has anyone here write some pulp recently?
>>24747676How much of it is christcuck stuff?
>>24786764come on now
This thread shall not die.
>>24743874I had an interesting thought. I wondered how a setting where there is a singular really fast way to get from point A in space to point B, but there is no equivalent speed way to return back to point A. So through this method it takes 3 days to get to alpha centari or whatever, but the return trip backto earth is like 3 months.Wonder how that would effect things politically. It means the earth section can influence the alpha centauri section rapidly, but the inverse is not so quick. This also creates a massive chokepoint on the alpha centauri side. However earth would have the initiative but Alpha centauri would have a more up to date picture of both systems as a whole.Any setting done something like this? A "Single direction flow valve" style superspeed?
>>24789389needs space sluts and a fist fight with an alien to make it pulpy tho - world build around that
>>24743959basedEvery time I read it, I get so fucking bricked up when he describes the frost giant's daughter EVERY time. My dick gets so hard I could fuck my way through a bank vault door.
>Everyone ignored my request
>>24790232Sorry anon, I just read fantasy pulps.
>>24790232I'm the same as the other anon, I don't know any pulp Westerns because I don't read them, sorry buddy.I have a vague idea that Howard wrote some, that's about it.
>>24791034>>24791246Its over
Going to drop my awesome new character in the next writing contest
>>24792623Writing contest? The one made by a tripfag?I think they only litfic shit (drama basically) I don't think pulp would be appreciated there
>>24793795Thats one of the reasons I entered
I'd like to read smut that has at least some thing veneer of a literary merit. The bar isn't high at all i'd just like some classy goonread.Any such classics you guys know of?
>>24795287I always recommend the same thing: Louys' Aphrodite.
>>24795287Unironically you might want to consider getting into manga or light novels for that, but it's hard to find decent translations
>read Skullface>Expect Fu Manchu>get /pol/x/ schizokino insteadhow was robert e howard able to write so many works yet with a robust and timeless style?
Did this thread kill /sffg/?It's cool if it did.
Should I bother to read Hour of the Dragon if I already read The Scarlet Citadel and I’m going through all the other stories? Reviews say it’s the story is a copy of Scarlet Citadel that incorporates tropes from his other stories into novel-length. It’s long and reviews seem to indicate that it’s good but not great.
>>24796786It is his counterpart to "the call of cthulhu".>how was robert e howard able to write so many works yet with a robust and timeless styleHe is older than the modern purist genrefiction, because of this he and his friends' have such an eclectic style.
>>24759795Not Wodehouse but similar, to this day three men in a boat by Jerome k Jerome remains one of my favourite book. Very funny and comforting read.
>>24759323>>24759228Ironically enough, Moorcock had to latch on Conan through his invention of the "sword and sorcery" label.
>>24759316Dwight V. Swain - Techniques of the selling writer.I self-studied his ideas a lot at a time but I failed to produce anything worthwhile back then. Maybe i’ll re-read my copy again and try.
>Swainfag has breached containmentOh no...
>>24796907Based
