Robert E. Howard

Person · Open Library

Born

1906

Died

1936

Works

667

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1906-01-22

Active to

1936-06-11

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Listeners

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Total plays

19,751

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is most famous for having created — in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales — the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose instantly recognizable pop-culture imprint is rivalled by only a handful of other literary characters, such as Tarzan of the Apes

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,701x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,505x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,771x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,738x

5. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,435x

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Quotes

• “Slowly he rose, mechanically wiping his hands upon his cloak. A dark scowl had settled on his somber brow. Yet he made no wild, reckless vow, swore no oath by saints or devils."Men shall die for this," he said coldly.”
• “"I have never yet done a man to death by torture, but by God, sir, you tempt me!"”
• “The gorilla-slayer moved out into the glade. Massive, terrible, he was the personification of the primitive, the Stone Age. His mouth yawned in a red cavern of a grin; he bore himself with the haughty arrogance of savage might.”
• “A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.”
• “The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of silver hoofs came clearer and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad white street that curved round the golden-spired Tower of Splendor.”
• “Like the surface of the sea was the mirror of Tuzun Thune; hard as the sea in the sun's slanting beams, in the darkness of the stars, where no eye can pierce her deeps; vast and mystic as the sea when the sun smites her in such way that the watcher's breath is caught at the glimpse of tremendous abysses. So was the mirror in which Kull gazed.”

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