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Post by andydecker on Aug 2, 2012 9:31:35 GMT
It is interesting how blueprintlike this story is. Here is the formula for a certain kind of tale. I guess Howard didn´t invent it, but if you look at the plotpoints, it is still done. From Harvest Home to Children of the Corn. Half the episodes of Supernatural work this way with their redneck hunters mythology. The parallel society clinging to the "old ways", just one street off from the interstate.
Marvel Comics did a adaption in their Conan title back then, very nice issues. Of course they changed the context thoroughly and Buckner became Conan.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Aug 2, 2012 15:51:47 GMT
It is interesting how blueprintlike this story is. Here is the formula for a certain kind of tale. I guess Howard didn´t invent it, but if you look at the plotpoints, it is still done. From Harvest Home to Children of the Corn. Half the episodes of Supernatural work this way with their redneck hunters mythology. The parallel society clinging to the "old ways", just one street off from the interstate. Funny you mention this theme. Just a few days ago I read William F. Nolan's "Ceremony," which uses it, and I started trying to think of other examples. In additions to the ones you mention, Richard Matheson's "Children of Noah" and Ramsey Campbell's "Blacked Out" come to mind. I'm a sucker for the plot. Marvel Comics did a adaption in their Conan title back then, very nice issues. Of course they changed the context thoroughly and Buckner became Conan. I've always loved Marvel's Conan comic books, particularly the 1970s run. My brother has most of them, and whenever I visit him I make sure to read some of them (he lives in Texas, and one year he took me to Cross Plains).
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Post by andydecker on Aug 2, 2012 17:39:51 GMT
one year he took me to Cross Plains). This sounds great. I saw a few photos of Howard´s study in James Reasoner´s blog and was surprised how tiny it was. I always thought the tag dreamer for him a bit too romantic and fanish hyperbole, but if you see this, you really wonder. A damn long way from this part in Texas in 1930 to demon-haunted Stygia.
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