> At 02:58 PM 7/13/98 +0000, The persona-less Mr.
Rickert wrote:
>
> >
> >In addition to enjoying hard-boiled stuff, I
enjoy the work of Robert
> >E. Howard, who I consider to be a hard-boiled
stylist in much of his
> >fantasy/adventure work. I think that Howard
employs many of the
> >elements of the hard-boiled style, though his
stories are set in
> >other milieus.
> >
> >So, I guess my question is: can this type of
fiction be hard-boiled?
> >I'm interested in all opinions.
> >
> >Larry
> >
> Hey! I didn't know you was on dis list!
>
> Actually REH did write a couple of mysteries,
although he hated both
> them and the genre as a whole. Be interesting to read
'em and see if they
> were HB or cozy types (hard to imagine, that
last).
Hi James,
Good to see you hear. Howard's mysteries were, as you
mentioned, not
labors of love for him. They were mostly of the 'weird
menace' type,
written specifically for the pulps that featured this type of
story.
Plenty of action and fast-paced, but the characters didn't
ring true.
I was thinking more along the lines of Cormac Mac Art, Conan,
or
Cormac Fitzgeoffrey. These guys are pretty hard-boiled
characters.
Larry
Larry Rickert
PC Training and Consulting
lrickert@ix.netcom.com
http://www.netcom.com/~lrickert
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