As part of a birthday salute to the bard of Cross Plains, many of Black Gate’s bloggers have posted their personal recollections of reading Robert E. Howard — how they came to his fiction, what they like best about it, and why they keep coming back. I wrote my own short piece, Encountering Howard, but be while you are over there be sure to check out the great stuff Ryan Harvey, Howard Andrew Jones, and John R. Fultz have said about the father of Sword & Sorcery.
