Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Gouged Eyes and Chawed Ears: The Rough and Tumble World of Breckenridge Elkins



Have you read A Gent from Bear Creek and the rest of the Breckenridge Elkins saga? If not, you oughta! I like everything Howard wrote (except maybe the detective stories), but this series is my favorite.

 This is a paper read by Jeffrey Shanks at the 2011 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference.
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4 comments:

  1. TCNovember 1, 2017 at 4:23 PM

    Some critic (maybe Manly Wade Wellman, but I'm not certain) once said that REH's tongue-in-cheek Westerns were the cream of his writing, and that his best-known works (Conan, Kull, and the other sword & sorcery stories) were the dregs.

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  2. Evan LewisNovember 2, 2017 at 8:25 AM

    I wouldn't go that far, but there ARE the most fun.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 2, 2017 at 11:22 AM

    Aw, what would you expect from the author of Silver John?
    I'm very fond of Wellman's work, but he's plain wrong.

    REH's humorous westerns are, at their best, laugh-out-loud slapstick.
    His sword & sorcery tales are, at their best, fresh distillations of myth.

    John

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  4. ShayNovember 6, 2017 at 6:16 PM

    Yes, I've read the Breck Elkins stories. Tried to write one in the idiom, once. The language is great fun.

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