Broke out the French press to feel fancy while I squeeze in a quick #RobertEHoward tale before my next meeting. Nothing like a little sword and sorcery with your caffeine. #ConanAndCoffee
Broke out the French press to feel fancy while I squeeze in a quick #RobertEHoward tale before my next meeting. Nothing like a little sword and sorcery with your caffeine. #ConanAndCoffee
Enjoying a little #RobertEHoward reading this morning for a couple of hours. Conan!
Book Challenge DAY 2: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers.
#20books #20books20days #BookCover #CoverIllustration #Cover_Art #Book #Books #Art #SpeculativeFiction #ConanTheBarbarian #RobertEHoward
#SwordAndSorcery #HeroicFantasy #Fantasy #LancerBooks #FrankFrazetta #LSpragueDeCamp #LinCarter #PaperbackCovers #Paperbacks #PaperbackBooks #PulpHero #PulpMagazine #WeirdTales #PulpArt
"Shadows in the Moonlight" is one of the original #shortStories starring the fictional #swordAndSorcery hero #ConanTheCimmerian, written by American author #RobertEHoward and first published in #WeirdTales magazine in April 1934. Howard had originally named his story "Iron Shadows in the Moon". It is set in the fictional #HyborianAge and narrates Conan's escape to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW190yBjdcY
Day 15
Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
"Shadows in the Moonlight" is one of the original #shortStories starring the fictional #swordAndSorcery hero #ConanTheCimmerian, written by American author #RobertEHoward and first published in #WeirdTales magazine in April 1934. Howard had originally named his story "Iron Shadows in the Moon". It is set in the fictional #HyborianAge and narrates Conan's escape to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g338WVKLHg8
Je découvre les sublimes couvertures de #Conan par l'immense #KatsuyaTerada. Wow !
'Tis Robert E. Howard's birthday, by Crom! #RobertEHoward
By Crom, 'tis Robert E. Howard's birthday! #RobertEHoward
Of course Cimmeria was a real place, by Crom https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/hatusas/?s=mc #history #HyborianAge #RobertEHoward
debouch - emerge from a narrow or confined space into a wide, open area
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. The mailed riders under the Aquilonian banner emerge from the defiles between the hills to the east of the city in pursuit of Strabonus's spahis.
maze - be dazed and confused
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Tower of the Elephant. Conan makes his way out of the tower after his encounter at the apex.
guidon - a small flag, especially one borne by an military unit as a unit marker
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. The people of Shamar watch as the banners of Koth and Ophir approach, led by the golden-mailed Amalrus and the squat black-armored Strabonus.
What rogues claim that Cimmeria was not a real place? These people knew and traded with Cimmerians, by Crom https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/hatusas/?s=mc #history #HyborianAge #RobertEHoward
mantelet - a screen to protect a soldier from missile attack
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. Strabonus's flotilla posts archers on their bows and mastheads to rake the riverwards turrets of Shamar.
spahis - light-cavalry regiment of the French army, recruited primarily from the Arab and Berber population of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. From the Ottoman Turkish word sipahi, meaning army or horsemen.
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. Strabonus sends his light riders inland to raid the countryside as he cautiously approaches Tamar.
satrap - a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. Tsotha-lanti and the kings in his service seek to put Arpello, butcher of Pellia, on Conan's throne in Aquilonia.
penurious - poverty-stricken
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. Strabonus, King of Koth, is furious as Conan butchers his knights after battle.
nettle - to irritate or annoy
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Tower of the Elephant. Conan is annoyed at a laughing crowd in a seedy den.
spoor - the scent or track of an animal
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Frost-Giant's Daughter. Niord finds Conan after following his tracks from the site of his recent skirmish.