‘Of Fear and Night’
James LaFond's Impressions of The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard
© 2019 James LaFond
JAN/16/19
Reading from pages 83-254 of The Bloody Crown of Conan, 2003, Del Rey, NY, illustrated by Gary Gianni, whose work will also be considered, as the book is being examined as a cultural-mythic artifact.
This work was unusual for Howard in that it was a commissioned novel, his only one and was supported by an extensive untitled synopsis, reproduced on pages 335-7, and also extensive day-by-day notes on events in the novel reproduced on pages 339-42, with the latter only concerned with the second chapter of the novel and the former the first half of the novel. Howard wrote the work from chapter three on by the seat of his pants and completed the bulk of it with a bare shadow of an outline...
america the brutal
logic of steel
thriving in bad places
songs of aryas
the lesser angels of our nature
logic of force
fanatic
z-pill forever
dark, distant futures
book of nightmares
menthol rampage
the combat space
broken dance
into leviathan’s maw
sorcerer!
time & cosmos
honor among men
the fighting edge
your trojan whorse
beasts of aryas
winter of a fighting life
on combat
barbarism versus civilization
by the wine dark sea
masculine axis
wife—
night city
advent america
triumph
the greatest boxer
let the world fend for itself
uncle satan
fate
on the overton railroad
the first boxers
fiction anthology one
predation
song of the secret gardener
the sunset saga complete
the year the world took the z-pill
within leviathan’s craw
orphan nation
blue eyed daughter of zeus
ranger?
taboo you
cracker-boy
hate
when you're food
under the god of things
solo boxing
the greatest lie ever sold
sons of aryas
all-power-fighting
son of a lesser god
the gods of boxing