Don Herron

DON HERRON published his now classic defense of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, "Conan vs. Conantics," in 1976-and the very next year he began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour in San Francisco, which continues hiking up and down those mean streets to this day. Among other titles he has edited two critical anthologies on Howard, The Dark Barbarian (1984) and The Barbaric Triumph (2004)-plus Willeford (1997), a book about the books written by the cult crime writer Charles Willeford. The first...See more

DON HERRON published his now classic defense of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, "Conan vs. Conantics," in 1976-and the very next year he began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour in San Francisco, which continues hiking up and down those mean streets to this day. Among other titles he has edited two critical anthologies on Howard, The Dark Barbarian (1984) and The Barbaric Triumph (2004)-plus Willeford (1997), a book about the books written by the cult crime writer Charles Willeford. The first of his "Mr. Hunt" stories, written in homage to Hammett and the Black Mask school of hard-boiled detective fiction, is included in San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics from Akashic Press. See less