The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies, call for the Vol. 10, No. 2 issue…

Note that during their Howard Days presentation the editors said they were also interested in Lovecraft and wider pulp magazine history of the period. Though I’d imagine that papers on these would probably be most welcome if they featured themes and concerns found in Howard’s work and/or life.

I wonder if “The Small Town” might be such a theme, and if it might even make a special themed issue, with essays on the early pulp-magazine use of the theme by Howard, Lovecraft, Simak, Bradbury and others. Possibly also an examination of the demographics and spread of the readership, to determine how ‘remote’ and small-town some of the readers were, and what the pulps meant to them in that context.