For example, "Flat, flaring nostrils, retreating chin, fangs, no forehead whatever, great, immensely long arms dangling from sloping, incredible shoulders". Howard occasionally included descriptive details as lists the rapid succession adding to the pace of the prose. Coffman writes that this is something that "in most writers, is a flaw, but which Robert E.
In addition to liberal use of adjectives and adverbs, he would use nominal compounds and compound verbs. Howard would use both compound modification (i.e. For example, in the line "the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi", the noun "blade" is modified with both "crescent" and "saw-edged". Sometimes a single word can have multiple modifiers. Howard's writing frequently uses hypermodification, where most nouns and most verbs are modified. Howard's tall tale background is the source of the rhythm, drive and authenticity of his work. Some of his stories, such as " The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune", have been described as prose poems in their vigorous and rhythmic writing. The trait is considered the mark of a master in oral storytelling. Howard's stories have a sense of authenticity and a natural deft use of language due to his investment in the narrative. Howard used an economy of words to sketch out scenes in his stories his ability to do so has been attributed to his skill with, and experience of, both tall tales and poetry. Howard, " The People of the Black Circle" (1934) Again his voice came faintly and far away, and again the Devi bent to him, trembling with a fear that was darker than the terror of death.
On the dais under the golden dome the king cried out again, racked by awful paroxysms. But Death stalked through the royal palace and none could stay his ghostly tread. All the noble-born fighting-men of Ayodhya were gathered in the great palace or about it, and at each broad-arched gate and door fifty archers stood on guard, with bows in their hands. In the gardens of the palace the torches glinted on polished helmets and curved swords and gold-chased corselets. Outside, the moan of the tortured thousands shuddered up to the stars which crusted the sweating Vendhyan night, and the conchs bellowed like oxen in pain.
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