Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 100. Chapters: Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Robert E. Howard, Roger Zelazny, Philip José Farmer, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Joanna Russ, George Alec Effinger, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Colin Wilson, Alan Moore, Lin Carter, China Miéville, Frank Belknap Long, W. H. Pugmire, Robert M. Price, T. E. D. Klein, Richard L. Tierney, Henry Kuttner, Charles Stross, Karl Edward Wagner, Donald Wandrei, Thomas Ligotti, Don Webb, E. Hoffmann Price, Mick Farren, Luis G. Abbadie, David Conyers, Mark Ellis, Will Murray, Robert Weinberg, Michael Shea, T. M. Gray, Fred Chappell, Graham Masterton, Richard A. Lupoff, Rafael Llopis, John Pelan, J. Vernon Shea, A. A. Attanasio, Keith Herber, Martin H. Greenberg, Lois H. Gresh, Akihiro Yamada, Peter Cannon, Adam Niswander, John Sunseri, Kevin Lauderdale, Chiaki J. Konaka, David J. Rodger, Gary Myers, Daniel Harms. Excerpt: Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in the nearby Brownwood. A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing himself. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was twenty-three. He was published in a wide selection of magazines, journals and newspapers but his main outlet was the pulp magazine Weird Tales. He was successful in several genres and was on the verge of publishing his first novel when he committed suicid...
