Deka Black<p>"Howard is a rather surprising person, and I think he is more complex, and is also possessed of more literary ability, than I had thought from many of his stories. The Conan tales, in my opinion, are quite in a class by themselves."</p><p> Clark Ashton Smith, Letter to August Derleth, August 29th, 1933</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClarkAshtonSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClarkAshtonSmith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RobertEHoward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertEHoward</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WeirdTales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdTales</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PulpClassics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PulpClassics</span></a></p>