Personally, I'd leave the word "beloved" out of that last
sentence, as it it pregnant with intention, but yeah, I think
a big part of REH's appeal for some folks is the macabre
details of his early demise.
Mark
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Thornton"
<tieresias@...> wrote:
>
> Speaking of Robert E. Howard, I worked my way
through his entire
canon as a teen-ager. The Arnold Schwarzenegger film
adaptations of some of his work notwithstanding, I'd say that
*all* of Howard's protagonists (Conan, Kull, Cormac MacArt,
Bran MakMorn, Solomon Kane, El Borak, et. al.) were
proto-typical noir heroes in an heroic fantasy setting.
>
> And talk about a noir ending: Howard died a suicide
(shot himself in
his car) at 30 when his beloved mother slipped into a coma on
the doorstep of her own impending death.
>
> Brian
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