A new book from Bobby Derie, Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others, on pre-order now. Hippocampus has the full contents list. Lots of fascinating new essays, many from Bobby’s excellent blog, on R.E. Howard and also the wider Lovecraft Circle. Also deeper historical context such as an essay on “Fan Mail: Prohibition in ‘The Souk'”. Prohibition was the worthy but impractical and thus ill-fated U.S. ban on liquor (a ban Lovecraft approved of), and ‘The Souk’ was the letters page of the Weird Tales ‘clone’ magazine Oriental Stories, also edited by Farnsworth Wright.