The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conquerer): A Pulp-Lit Annotated Storytellers' Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780986409738)

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was a prolific writer of vivid, imaginative short stories, novelettes and novels, mostly written for the pulp magazine market. A highly educated son of a medical doctor in the heart of Texas, he developed an unusual style characterized by a style that was usually smooth and cinematic, frequently darkly and hypnotically poetic, and occasionally split like flashes of lightning with scenes of terse, evocative action. He is best known for his Conan the Cimmerian character; other characters for which he is known include Solomon Kane, Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, sailor Steve Costigan, and El Borak. Finn J.D. John is the author of Wicked Portland: The Wild and Lusty Underworld of a Frontier Seaport Town (The History Press, 2012), and the editor/annotator of The John Carter Trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Pulp-Lit Press, 2014), and produces the weekly Pulp-Lit Storytellers Club podcast and the thrice-weekly Offbeat Oregon History podcast. He writes a locally syndicated weekly newspaper column titled "Offbeat Oregon History" (http: //offbeatoregon.com), which runs regularly in 16 community newspapers in his home state. Finn also teaches New Media Communications at Oregon State University, specializing in trans-media franchises as a venue for creative expression. He can be reached via Twitter at @offbeatoregon or by e-mail at finn@pulp-lit.com.