Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard
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Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard | |
Dust-jacket illustration for Dark Valley Destiny |
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Author | L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin |
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Cover artist | Kevin Eugene Johnson |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Biography |
Publisher | Bluejay Books |
Publication date | 1983 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 402 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 0-312-94074-2 |
Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard is a 1983 biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp in collaboration with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin, first published by Bluejay Books.
The work, an examination of the famous fantasy writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian, was the first major independent biography of Howard. It is an expansion of de Camp's earlier study The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard (1975), itself an expansion of his article "The Miscast Barbarian", which appeared in the magazine Fantastic in June, 1971.