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Conan the Barbarian

Robert Howard’s ‘Conan’
Race-Conscious Aryan barbarian or multiracial pansy? by Martin Kerr ONE THING THAT I have learned in life is that no matter how bad things get, they can always get worse. A case in point is the new French cinematic version of the fictional character widely known as “Conan the Barbarian.” Long an exemplar…

Conan: The Master of All Circumstances
by James Harting MY PREVIOUS POST, Robert E. Howard’s story “The Last White Man,” proved very popular. Here is a stray thought or two that I had concerning Howard’s most-famous character, Conan the Barbarian. Although it was not published until 1967 (31 years after Howard’s…