![]() ![]() ![]() Howard's suicide and the circumstances surrounding it have led to varied speculation about his mental health. ![]() The main outlet for his stories was in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. Although a Conan novel was nearly published into a book in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime. Thereafter, until his death at the age of 30 by suicide, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres. From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23. 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. He spent most of his life in the town of Cross Plains with some time spent in nearby Brownwood. Howard was born and raised in the state of Texas. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. Robert Ervin Howard (JanuJune 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. ![]() "Red Nails " is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. ![]()
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