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[Lovecraft Mythos/Conan the Barbarian] Why is Conan so much better at killing eldritch monsters than people in the 1920s?

As was mentioned in a previous post on this sub, Lovecraft and Howard shared some of the parts of their respective settings, loosely placing the adventures of Conan in the ancient past of the Lovecraft Mythos. The two share a lot of the same eldritch motifs, especially in their monsters and magic- in both settings, there are powers beyond mortal knowledge and comprehension that are _very_ dangerous to humans. 

The difference is that Conan _kills_ a lot of these monsters and magicians beyond mortal ken, and even seems derisive of them. He basically states that sorcerers and shoggoths can be slaughtered with a sturdy piece of steel like anyone else.

So why's it so much easier for Conan than, say, Gustaf Johansen or William Dyer? Has something changed in the cosmos between the Hyborian Age and now, something to put our world on the back foot? Or was Conan just so much more of a badass than the average human nowadays?
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> Or was Conan just so much more of a badass than the average human nowadays? 

He is Conan, Cimmerian. He slew Picts and wrestled wild bulls before he was yet a man grown. He was born to battle, and has never known peace. Not for him the softness and indolence of more "civilised" peoples; his is strength, and courage, and perhaps most importantly his is faith in Crom - a god who gives men nothing but life, and asks of them nothing but courage. And he knows that this world contains dark and ancient horrors, but he also knows that there is no foe that cannot be overcome, with courage and steel.

20th century men lived in a world of rationality and logic and science. To their minds the sight of creatures from beyond was incomprehensible, and they had no way to even begin dealing with them. To a man like Conan, such things could simply be dismissed as vile sorcery or foul demons, and dealt with accordingly.

... Basically, his environment and belief system have given him the physical capacity for great violence, the mental acuity to perceive when it is necessary and to act immediately and decisively, and a combination of open-mindedness and spiritual fortitude that means he quite simply isn't going to be driven mad or rendered catatonic by the sight of some eldritch horror; he's just going to look for the best place to stab it.