Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server

Author:Lee Server [Server, Lee]
Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ror, The (1899); Lady of the Pool, The (1894); Little tion of the blacks in Drum’s apocalyptic slave re-Tiger (1925); Love’s Logic and Other Stories (1908); Lu-volt might also have caused some discomfort for

cinda (1920); Man of Mark, A (1890); Mrs. Maxon the reader/bigot.

Protests (1911); Phroso (1897); Prisoner of Zenda, The Whether the authors hoped to deliver some

(1894); Quisante (1899); Rupert of Hentzau (1898); Sec-kind of message in their violent, erotic saga is not

ond String (1910); Servant of the Public, The (1905); entirely clear. Away from Falconhurst, Horner

Simon Dale (1898); Sophy of Kravonia (1906); Sport Royal showed a continued interest in slavery in novels

and Other Stories (1893); Tristram of Blent (1901) set in ancient Rome, and Onstott’s previous

books—the ones not about beekeeping—did con-

cern breeding, although the focus was on dogs and

Horner, Lance

not humans. The timing of the series, just as the

(1902–1966) Also wrote as: Kyle Onstott

civil rights movement and violent opposition to it

were catching fire in the United States, may have

Lance Horner found success, and a degree of noto-

fanned the books’ popularity, but to most of the

riety, late in life with the publication of the Falcon-

millions of readers of the series, it was likely en-

hurst series, historical fiction of a most sensational

joyed merely as titillating, taboo-busting entertain-

sort about the slaves and the slave owners on a

ment with a nihilistic edge. Excessive and

sprawling slave-breeding plantation in pre– and

semipornographic as the Falconhurst series was, it

post–Civil War Alabama. Horner had been an ad-

could at least be credited as a bracing alternative

vertising man with one novel to his credit when

to that earlier best-seller about the antebellum

he collaborated with a septuagenarian dog-show

South, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind

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Howard, Robert E.

(1936), and its sentimental fantasy of benevolent

portrayals of evil. These and other writers of the

slavers, maternal mammies, and devoted field

day would spark Howard’s own bursting imagina-

hands.

tion to empower his writing and the amazing body

of work to come.

Works

It was to Lovecraft’s pulp home, Weird Tales,

Black Sun, The (1967); Child of the Sun (1966); Flight to that Howard made his first professional sale,

Falconhurst (1971); Golden Stud (1975); Heir to Falcon-

“Spear and Fang,” which was printed in the July

hurst (1968); Mahoud, The (1969); Mistress of Falcon-1925 issue. It was a momentous occasion. Howard

hurst (1973); Mustee, The (1967); Rogue Roman (1965); would become a regular contributor to Weird Tales,

Street of the Sun, The (1956)

and would also come to be known as one of that

unique magazine’s three greatest contributors, with

As Kyle Onstott:

Lovecraft and Clark Ashton SMITH (though many

Drum (1962); Mandingo (1957); Master of Falconhurst of WT’s other regulars also had their rabid

(1964)

acolytes). Howard, unlike the other two members

of the triumvirate, saw himself as a professional

As Lance Horner and Kyle Onstott:

writer, and did write for other publications and in

Falconhurst Fancy (1966)

other genres—straight adventure, westerns, boxing

stories—though he did not have much success in

breaking into the mainstream prestige pulps (such

Howard, Robert E.

as Adventure, Argosy, and the like. In retrospect, (1906–1936) Also wrote as: Sam Walser

the ornate, daring, out-of-the-mainstream pages of

Weird Tales were the perfect place for a writer as Robert E. Howard, one of the great discoveries of

different and powerful as Robert E.

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