De Camp was offered the role but he recommended Glenn Lord instead. When she closed the agency in 1965, a new agent was required.
Oscar Friend took over from Kline as literary agent and he was followed by his daughter Kittie West. De Camp eventually achieved control over the Conan stories and Conan brand in general. The series led to the first Conan pastiche, the novel The Return of Conan by De Camp and Swedish Howard fan Björn Nyberg. The success of Conan the Conqueror led to a series of Conan books from publisher Gnome Press, the later editor of which was L. This was followed in the United States by a collection of Howard's stories, Skull-Face and Others (1946) and then the novel Conan the Conqueror (1950). Howard's first published novel, A Gent from Bear Creek, was printed in Britain one year after his death.
The Baums eventually sold their rights to the Swedish company Paradox Entertainment, Inc (now Cabinet Entertainment). Morris left the rights to the widow of her cousin, Zora Mae Bryant, who gave control to her children, Jack Baum and Terry Baum Rogers. Pere Kuykendall, who passed them to his wife, Alla Ray Kuykendall, and daughter, Alla Ray Morris. Isaac Howard passed the rights on to his friend Dr. Howard's death, the courts granted his estate to his father, who continued to work with Howard's literary agent Otis Adelbert Kline. Howard Foundation, was created to promote further scholarship.įollowing Robert E. Sprague de Camp's Dark Valley Destiny (1983) which was followed by other works, including Don Herron's The Dark Barbarian (1984) and Mark Finn's Blood & Thunder (2006). The first professionally published example of this was L. Howard's critical reputation suffered at first but over the decades works of Howard scholarship have been published. Howard's most famous character, Conan the Barbarian, has a pop-culture imprint that has been compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Howard's legacy extended after his death in 1936.
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