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Black Canaan
Black Canaan | Robert Ervin Howard
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From the age of nine he dreamed of becoming a writer of adventure fiction but did not have real success until he was 23. Thereafter, until his death by suicide at age 30, Howard's writings were published in a wide selection of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and he had become successful in several genres. Although a Conan novel was nearly published in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime. The main outlet for his stories was the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
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JazzFeathers
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#SeptemBowie

I do love Robert E. Howard, he was a fantastic storyteller with a great sense of action and the wonder an a higly visualizza style, but l have to admit l do have some issues with his contemporary stories. 1930s Texas was a problematic place.

Black Canaan is the best of Howard's contemporary stories. The core is a #MagicDance of a voodoo witch, a strong era character than the author meant to be, in my opinion.

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JazzFeathers
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This is a collection of Howard's non-fantasy stories and inside there's my favourite one, Black Canaan. Set in his homeland (Texas) at his time (the 1930s), it betrays less blatant racism then other contemporary stories and it has a very strong feeling of otherness about it.
The black #mysticsvoodoo witch who's the villain of the novella is my favourite character
#WhatAWayToLive #PiratesLife

CrowCAH Sounds intriguing! Neat cover art, too!!! 7y
JazzFeathers @CrowCAH l like that cover a lo too 😆 7y
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