The instant Robert Ervin Howard learned his comatose mother was not long for this world, the fantasy writer decided Jun. 11, 1936 would be his last day on earth.
Bob Howard was born in 1906 at Peaster but left the wide-spot-in-the-road while still in diapers. His father, a footloose country doctor, dragged his frail wife and only child from town to town before finally settling down at Cross Plains …
