AHC & WI: Robert E Howard doesn't commit suicide in 1936.

[Some Bloke]

Exactly what it ways on the tin. There were various personal factors that led to Robert E Howard of Conan the Barbarian fame to take his own life.

What would pop culture look like if Howard continued to write? Would we see the early beginnings of the weird western? How would the war affect his writing, style, and career?

 

[Major Major]

By then he was shifting his writing focus from heroic fantasy to humorous westerns. Like most pulp writers, he was "diverse" -- horror today, contemporary adventure tomorrow, Westerns the day after, heroic fantasy on the weekend, and so on. A lot would have depended on how well stories sold. He might have been drawn into the Unknown Worlds group -- or gone out to Hollywood, to churn out concepts for oaters.