![]() ![]() Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes, and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology, that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. ![]() From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. ![]() Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. ![]()
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