Episode 87 - Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Usurper" with special guest Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney by Appendix N Book Club published on 2021-01-18T21:12:15Z Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney joins us to discuss Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp's "Conan the Usurper", body horror, de Camp's heavy-handed editing, offensive physical descriptions of black characters, Lovecraft's contemporaries, the experience of talking about problematic elements in the fandom, Howard's creative process, audience analysis in pulps, the cliche of the dumb barbarian, unknown characters seeking revenge on PCs, and much more! Genre Entertainment Comment by Gary Nice interview. De Camp actually did very little editing on the Conan stories that were originally published in Weird Tales. The Black Stranger (The Treasure of Tranicos) was the only one majorly rewritten. Why don't you guys get Darrell Schweitzer or someone sympathetic to de Camp to discuss de Camp's role with REH. De Camp was mostly great for REH contrary to current opinion. Glenn Lord and Donald M. Grant did just as much editing (if not more) on Solomon Kane. 2021-02-08T23:02:34Z
