‘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...
beasts of aryas
uncle satan
wife—
the combat space
ranger?
menthol rampage
broken dance
the sunset saga complete
the lesser angels of our nature
blue eyed daughter of zeus
night city
dark, distant futures
book of nightmares
z-pill forever
under the god of things
the year the world took the z-pill
time & cosmos
your trojan whorse
when you're food
the gods of boxing
solo boxing
the greatest boxer
the greatest lie ever sold
the first boxers
masculine axis
america the brutal
logic of force
within leviathan’s craw
all-power-fighting
advent america
songs of aryas
on the overton railroad
sorcerer!
predation
barbarism versus civilization
on combat
let the world fend for itself
logic of steel
hate
fanatic
cracker-boy
fiction anthology one
thriving in bad places
the fighting edge
into leviathan’s maw
honor among men
orphan nation
taboo you
winter of a fighting life
son of a lesser god
triumph
fate
by the wine dark sea
song of the secret gardener
sons of aryas