My visit to Robert E Howard's Grave( and an important message)

[@neozoic3235]

Rest in Peace, Robert Ervin Howard; the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) 🙏.

[@beerye9331]

Thank you for paying homage.

[@DarthBigBen]

Glad you had fun in Texas.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

Still makes me sad that things turned out the way they did for him. REH remains my absolute favorite author, and a continuing inspiration for me as an as yet unpublished author. And it is a hard thing that his legacy has been robbed from him thanks to hacks like L. Sprague De Camp.

[@fwwaller]

I dont find De Camps work as insulting as the shit the modern marvel writers are doing with Conan.

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

@@fwwaller Shortly after REH died, Sprague spent the next 20 years alienating new readers from reading his original work by writing books about how REH was insane and an "idiot savant" - just so those readers, curious about Conan, would read L. Sprague's bowdlerizations. He advised adaptations like the 1982 film to the point that when newer works try to reference REH's original work, "fans" mocked it because all they know of Conan is the movie, not the fact that Conan was Robert E. Howard's creation. But yeah what Marvel is doing right now seems to be worse, but it all started with De Camp. What he did metastasised into the nonsense we have now.

[@fwwaller]

@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 i never knew he was an advisor on the original movie

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

@@fwwaller I think it was in the end credits. Also, Al Harron's brought it up a few times, and a lot of other things Sprague did to basically dance on REH's grave.

[@fwwaller]

@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 I remember Alan Moore saying Howard was a misogynist and his stories groomed whole generations of rapists or some such other bullshit