New on Cyberlenika, the main Russian open scholarly repository, a short paper which examines…

the image of [Amir] Timur the Great [aka Tamerlane] and description of his epoch in the story Lord of Samarcand by well-known American writer Robert E. Howard.

The paper is in reasonable English and is under Creative Commons Attribution, and thus an English-language journal might be interested in publishing a re-formatted and expanded version. One imagines that public-domain maps and illustrations could be found to illustrate it, along with relevant sections from the letters and the Weird Tales sister title Magic Carpet.