What's Robert E Howard's best story? For me it's

>>9940557
Oh come on, it has to be Beyond the Black River. It was literally every single Conan story rolled into one. You could read that ONE story and never have to read another R.E.H. tale again.

>>9940564
That one's good but I think both Tower of the Elephant and Red Nails are superior to be completely frank.

>>9940587
Eh, it's hard to say, Tower of the Elephant was good but it didn't really carry the full theme of all of Howard's work, which is "barbarism is superior to normies," and Red Nails had the woman who added pretty much nothing to the plot.

Black River I feel is the one piece you would read if you couldn't read anything else of his work. It's the seminal Conan story.

Granted all are better than shit like The God in the Jar, or, God help us, The People of the Black Circle, which is godawful.

>>9940557
>I wish he could have found someway to make it a Conan story though.

What's funny is that he absolutely could have, Howard's story The Black Stranger was literally rewritten as Swords of the Red Brotherhood. He took a Conan story and made it into a pirate story, there's no reason he couldn't have done it the other way around, so it must have been intentional.

His Bran Mak Morn stories are really underrated. Especially Worms of the Earth.