Newly on Archive.org for the first time, a good crisp scan of Oriental Stories for Winter 1932, Farnsworth Wright at the helm of this Weird Tales clone, and Robert E. Howard providing “The Sowers of the Thunder”.

The letters page has mention of The Cross Plains Review in Howard’s home town. A title obviously well known to Howard scholars, but it’s new to me. Howard thus appears to have had a strong local friend in the form of the town’s newspaper editor, something I hadn’t known before. It led me to find that there are now digitized scans of this newspaper online in PDF from a university, albeit the 1920s and 1940s and not the 1930s.

I also found a rather nice painting of The Cross Plains Review editorial building as it would have been…