> Ill bet REH would have liked to read and have enjoyed many of the stories > written in his honor. Please dont say that they are all worse than his Kull > stories because they are not by what to me seems most basic standards. It > seems to me that any material linked to REH is acceptable for discussion, and > Conan stories are definitely linked to REH for without him there would be > none. I believe that Howard wrote some Cthulu stories in honor of Lovecraft. > Should we berate him for this? I think not.
The difference though is that HPL encouraged people to write Cthulhu mythos stories---he did that quite often with REH, CAS and Derleth. REH didn't encourage DeCamp, Carter or ANderson to write Conan pastiches. ANd as far as you bringing up the quality of the Kull stories, take a look at which ones were published in REH's lifetime---I would argue they are some of REH's better stories. Now keep in mind, most of what has ended up in the KULL book wasn't published in REH's lifetime. >To show honor to a great > writer by attempting to give people who cant get enough of the world he/she > created more to read seems fine to me, especially if it is done with the > original spirit of the writer at heart, and especially if the writer died at > such an untimely age that his great works were brought to an early > conclusion. Well, I would argue DeCamp, Carter, Anderson, and particularly Robert Jordan don't keep the original spirit of REH. In fact, didn't Decamp basically say he couldn't because of REH's mental state? (Which is one of DeCamp's ways of asserting his superiority imo) Later, MEH
