/lit/ - Literature

>>13647586
Well Robert E. Howard is the man who created S&S and his Conan stories are seen as the epitome of Sword & Sorcery so you should start there. But you should download or buy the Del Rey collections and ONLY read those. They have all the Conan stories in the order they were written and completely uncut with tons of extras.

>The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
>The Bloody Crown of Conan
>The Conquering Sword of Conan

>>11304854
Wouldn't be any different from now...

Ironically it was most likely Robert E. Howard who was the autist. He memorized whole books in one or two readings and could recite them near perfectly on command, he was obsessed with children's media all his life, never grew up and never left home and he would pay meticulous attention to the sales of pulp fiction and adjust the content of his own works accordingly to achieve maximum marketability. Lovecraft was just a bright introvert who ended up being ill for most of his youth, requiring him to stay home for a large portion of his early years and this no doubt made him a little bit peculiar in manner and prone to fits of anxiety but not particularly autistic. Clark Ashton Smith was the true normie.