REH and Novelyne go for a night ride and stop by a corn field with the headlights left on shining at the corn. There's a scene in The Whole Wide World – the movie based on Novalyne Price's One Who Walked Alone – that illustrates this quite neatly. the real secret is that he himself is in every one of them…' Lovecraft, described him as 'a lover of the simpler, older world of barbarian and pioneer days, when courage and strength took the place of subtlety and stratagem, and when a hardy, fearless race battled and bled. REH's mentor and friend, the legendary father of pulp fiction, H.P. His characters were as much himself as they were pulled from his extraordinary imagination. Between 19 had put himself through a weight and strength program, taking on really heroic proportions! He is described as an imposingly tall, dark, brawny man – with piercing blue eyes. REH was a keen amateur boxer, participating in bouts at the local ice house. Though the circumstances and settings changed, the hero, or anti-hero, was always somehow a shade of the same creature – part savage, part nobleman, part poet, part pioneer – not unlike REH himself.

All show through in various stories – crystalised by REH's growing up during the last days of America's frontier culture.Īt fifteen, he began writing his tales of savage men living outside the rest of society, battling against other men, for land and pride. REH steeped himself in the folklore and history of the southwest, but his interests were far broader than this, encompassing not just Texana, but history and anthropology, sports, erotica, and poetry. As a child, he lived in at least nine towns across Texas until his father settled at Cross Plains in 1919. Isaac Mordecai Howard, one of the southwest's most prominent pioneer physicians, and Hester Jane Ervin Howard.

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