History Creator / RobertEHoward

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: "Pigeons From Hell" featured a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuvembie "zuvembie"]], which name was later used by Creator/MarvelComics for its voodoo-based zombie-like creatures (who couldn't be called such due to UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode.)

* MountainMan: Breckenridge Elkins and his whole family in Bear County. At first an Englishman asks Breckenridge if his giant size is unique only to meet his family and see it's pretty much the norm, breckenridge is just the biggest and strongest one. Breckenridge's pa quit civilization after losing to the yankee (or stealing a horse) and now they live off bear meat, corn liquor and selling furs and skins.

%%* MountainMan: Breckenridge Elkins

* Literature/BranMakMorn, king of the Picts.[[/index]]
* Cormac Mac Art: An Irish pirate during the time of Myth/KingArthur.

* Franchise/SolomonKane, a British Puritan who wanders the world, facing enemies both human and supernatural.[[/index]]
* Esau Cairn, an Earthman who became a hero on the distant planet of ''Almuric''.

* Literature/BranMakMorn, king of the Picts.

* Turlogh Dubh [=O'Brien=], a Gaelic outlaw.
* ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheVulture'' -- Comicbook/RedSonja was not actually created by Howard, she was inspired by a "Red Sonya" who hailed from Ukraine in that short story Howard wrote.
* Franchise/SolomonKane, a British Puritan who wanders the world, facing enemies both human and supernatural.

* Literature/SolomonKane, a British Puritan explorer in Africa.

* ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheVulture'' -- Comicbook/RedSonja was not actually created by Howard, she was inspired by a "Red Sonya" who hailed from Russia in that short story Howard wrote.

** ''Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon''

* ''Literature/BranMakMorn'', king of the Picts.

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* Dark Agnes de Chastillion, a noblewoman from 16th century France.

* ActionGirl:
** Dark Agnes.
** Red Sonya of Rogatino.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Many of Howard's incomplete drafts were picked up by other writers, such as Creator/LSpragueDeCamp, and turned into complete stories.

* CanonWelding: Howard did this a lot with his historical, horror and fantasy stories. Just to name a few examples: Literature/{{Kull}} was explicitly tied with Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian in the essay "The Hyborian Age". Both were tied to the historical-fantasy character Literature/BranMakMorn through the Kull-Bran crossover "Kings of the Night". The ring of Thoth-Amon from the Conan stories, and worshipers of Bran Mak Morn, both featured in Howard's modern horror stories, while both Bran and Kull are mentioned in one of his Turlogh Dubh O'Brien stories set in the 13th century. It wouldn't be unreasonable to consider all of Howard's speculative fiction to be part of [[TheVerse the same verse]], even if Howard [[AuthorExistenceFailure never lived]] to point it out himself. And of course Howard and Creator/HPLovecraft making references to each-others in their works was the foundation of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.

Howard was a friend and correspondent of Creator/HPLovecraft and one of the contributors to the original Franchise/CthulhuMythos. It was an OddFriendship: The erudite New Englander and backwoods Texas boy, with diametrically opposed philosophies about. . . well, everything. While Lovecraft felt that human concerns and powers were utterly irrelevant to the universe at large (the foundational cornerstone of CosmicHorror), Howard felt that humanity could overcome anything (especially themselves) so long as they held barbarism in their heart. (An EldritchAbomination appears in a Lovecraft story, anyone present will die or go insane, and the person who lived to tell the story probably wasn't even there. An EldritchAbomination appears in a Howard story, Conan will probably sword it to death.) Lovecraft liked technology and civilization, Howard most emphatically did not. But the two actually bonded over their differences, challenging each others' worldviews and forcing honest evaluation which only strengthened them.

He wrote short stories and poems spanning several genres, including HeroicFantasy, {{Western}}, CosmicHorror and historical fiction. He was the TropeMaker for the genres LowFantasy, DarkFantasy and SwordAndSorcery -- which, in fact, received its name from a discussion of what the genre that a Howard story was should be called. Along with Creator/JRRTolkien, he is one of the most influential writers in modern fantasy. His life was the subject of the 1996 film ''Film/TheWholeWideWorld''.

* Cormac Mac Art: An Irish pirate during the time of KingArthur.

* TheVerse: Conan and Kull both exist in the same history. Also, in "Kings of Night" Kull is brought forward to help Bran Mac Morn who is implied to be the reincarnation of Kull's friend Brule. And many of Howard's stories touch upon their place in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.

Howard was a friend and correspondent of Creator/HPLovecraft and one of the contributors to the original Franchise/CthulhuMythos. It was an OddFriendship: The erudite New Englander and backwoods Texas boy, with diametrically opposed philosophies about. . . well, everything. While Lovecraft felt that human concerns and powers were utterly irrelevant to the universe at large (the foundational cornerstone of CosmicHorror), Howard felt that humanity could overcome anything (especially themselves) so long as they held barbarism in their heart. (An EldritchAbomination appears in a Lovecraft story, anyone present will die or go insane, and the person who lived to tell the story probably wasn't even there. An EldrtichAbomination appears in a Howard story, Conan will probably sword it to death.) Lovecraft liked technology and civilization, Howard most emphatically did not. But the two actually bonded over their differences, challenging each others' worldviews and forcing honest evaluation which only strengthened them.

Howard was a friend and correspondent of Creator/HPLovecraft and one of the contributors to the original Franchise/CthulhuMythos.

* CanonWelding: Howard did this a lot with his historical, horror and fantasy stories. Just to name a few examples: Literature/{{Kull}} was explicitly tied with Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian in the essay "The Hyborian Age". Both were tied to the historical-fantasy character Literature/BranMakMorn through the Kull-Bran crossover "Kings of the Night". The ring of Thoth-Amon from the Conan stories, and worshipers of Bran Mak Morn, both featured in Howard's modern horror stories, while both Bran and Kull are mentioned in one of his Turlogh Dubh O'Brien stories set in 1200's. It wouldn't be unreasonable to consider all of Howard's speculative fiction to be part of [[TheVerse the same verse]], even if Howard [[AuthorExistenceFailure never lived]] to point it out himself. And of course Howard and Creator/HPLovecraft making references to each-others in their works was the foundation of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.