I see that Amazon now lists a June 2020 edition of The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies. At the journal’s website there’s also a new call for papers with a deadline of 16th August 2020.
Thanks to GreyIrish who has provided the TOCs for the latest issue of The Dark Man…
* Editorial by Jason Ray Carney and Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney.
* Willard M. Oliver, “Robert E. Howard and Jack London’s Martin Eden: analyzing the influence of Martin Eden on Howard and his semi-autobiography”.
* Todd Vick, “The Kid, Two-Gun, and history”.
* Karen Kahoutek, “More Than Meets the Eye: the women protagonists of the Conan stories”.
* Ralph Norris, “The Coming of Kull”.
* Luke F. Dodd, “The Sword and Sorcery Themes of The Sword’s Age of Winters, Gods of the Earth, and Warp Riders. (Album reviews).
* The Dark Man interview with The Cromcast [podcast]. (Interview).
There’s also now a table of contents for last summer’s issue. I learn it had an essay on Lovecraft, “Heredity and Madness in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls””.
Also of note is a forthcoming book by a 2020 Dark Man contributor, Todd Vick, titled Renegades and Rogues: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard. It’s set to appear from the University of Texas Press. It sounds to me like a ‘Howard 101’ book aimed at academics who need a quick primer…
You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture.
Set for publication in November 2020 or January 2021, the dating varies.