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Whenever a Robert E. Howard character was setting out into the unknown, you never knew when he would run into some creature of the past. Mammoth: Those magnificent great cold weather elephants of the Pleistocene. James Allison mentions them as Hunwulf encountered them in “The Garden of Fear.” “I gave them a wide berth, giants too […]

Man-eating apes are almost ubiquitous as giant snakes in Robert E. Howard’s fiction. Howard used big ones in two Conan stories, one El Borak story, and a modern weird story. He also had a smaller type in another Conan story and a gorilla in the first Solomon Kane story. Apes and ape-men were in some […]