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Category Archives: REH

King Kulled

02 Monday Oct 2023

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New this week, a look at “Stephen King on Robert E. Howard”. Not just REH. Back in the day, the article finds that…

King chose to manufacture a sensationalized version of events to present H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard as “mutilated personalities.

The end of the article also praises the new book of essays Beyond the Black Stranger and Others: New Essays on Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft (2023). These being essays by Charles Hoffman, which I linked here last week.

Audio recordings from PulpFest 2023

28 Thursday Sep 2023

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Streaming audio recordings from PulpFest 2023, now available. The list includes, among others…

* Sword and sorcery in “The Unique Magazine” [Weird Tales]

* Weird Tales on radio

* Those weird men’s adventure magazines

* Illustrating Conan for the commercial market

* Weird Editors

* Doc Savage and his offspring

No .MP3 downloads, but anyone handy with “Inspect element” and DIV-wrangling will find the link they want.

There are also dates for your 2024 diary. PulpFest 2024 will be in Pittsburgh, USA, from the 1st – 4th August 2024.

Dungeon, 1986-2010

25 Monday Sep 2023

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New on Archive.org, a long run of Dungeon magazine from 1986-2010. Being the official D&D magazine, by the look of it. Even if you’re not into RPGs, it has a wealth of illustrations.

Also the official news ‘zine from 1981 to 2004.

R.E. Howard

07 Thursday Sep 2023

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I’ve fixed some linkrot on my links-list of free R.E. Howard audio books, originally posted 2014.

Also in REH, I see that last month Michael K. Vaughan had a YouTube podcast/video which explained the Robert E. Howard Del Rey Editions and why they’re important and much-loved.

Also, new this week at Law & Liberty magazine, “The Flame and Cycle of Civilization in Robert E. Howard’s Weird Fiction”.

Lovecrafter 11 / 12 (2023)

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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Details of what’s in the annual German-language double-issue magazine from the German Lovecraftians. Printing soon, and it should be available to buy shortly.

Lovecrafter 11: special issue on Lovecraft’s poetry.

* Following the recent German publication of the volume of poems Fungi by Yuggoth and other poems, an article “will present and discuss the translation and book in as much detail as possible”. [Sounds like a ‘making of’ article?]

* Form fanaticism and nostalgia in Lovecraft’s poems. [Probably about his passion for old metres, poetic forms and subject matter?]

* Lovecraft’s graphology. [His penmanship, or otherwise, and presumably also trying to divine personality from the handwriting?]

* ‘Mushroom Gardens in Bloom’ – a review of H.P. Lovecraft’s Fungi of Yuggoth and Other Poems (German edition).

Lovecrafter 12: special issue on Robert E. Howard.

Parallels between “Howard’s biography and the protagonists of his stories”.

A look at “the origins and relevance of the barbaric in more detail”.

An article which “roves through the sunken temple complexes and black stone structures that leave us so unsettled in the context of cosmic horror”.

“Digital Horror Upgrade 2.0”, in which Dennis Grob examines a number of obscure and often unknown videogame titles.

And various RPG gaming material.

Howard Days date change

19 Saturday Aug 2023

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Howard Days 2024 date change…

2024 ‘Howard Days’ dates

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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Dates for the 2024 ‘Howard Days’ at Cross Plains Texas, celebrating Robert E. Howard in his home town. 14th & 15th June 2024. Update: they changed their minds. Now 7th & 8th June 2024.

In 2023 the annual event was held at the end of April, which as I recall was an experimental shift to see if cooler weather boosted attendance.

New S&S

30 Sunday Jul 2023

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Spiral Tower on “The Glut of New Sword and Sorcery”…

[it’s] increasingly feeling like a claustrophobic, crowded field [in novels, but in a good and ‘too much quality to read’ way]. I don’t think the glut of new sword and sorcery literature is a problem. But I do think this acknowledging this new phase in indie S&S might be helpful for writers, readers, and publishers.

Sounds good. I knew the “New Pulp” was a thing, and I’d kind of felt the wider cultural sea-change ‘bubbling under’. But the “New S&S” in novels is… new. I’m spreading the word here. See Spiral Tower’s post for various author names and titles of novels.

So it sounds to me like the new Conan publisher will be bringing their items to market at the right time. There’s a new novel series (though the first book had so-so reviews, I recall) and a new non-Marvel comics series (un-connected to the new novels, according to a recent interview I read). Both are apparently more REH-aligned than the mega-corp Marvel/Disney could have made them.

What’s probably needed then is more outreach, to build young audiences for these “new S&S” novels and anthologies, rather than simply curation and book-reviews for old hands. The old hands probably know enough to detect the good stuff by osmosis, and are canny enough to be able to winnow the good stuff into a pile of the really good stuff. But the process for young people probably goes: hear about the novels -> are there audiobooks -> are there full-cast and music unabridged audiobooks? I’m assuming that the age 13-23 market for reading multiple 600-page manly S&S novels on paper is limited these days, amidst the many time-sucking demands of videogames, anime, manga, YouTube, AI image-making, movies, drugs and booze, sports, part-time jobs, college, online eBay side-hustles and whatever the latest social-media app craze is.

On the other hand, the failing Marvel Comics thinks there’s a market for their new line of “crime novels”… so who knows? Maybe a hybrid highly-illustrated form of novel? But that’s been tried before, with not a great deal of success.

So… yes… a really high-quality crowdfunded audiobooks of the very best of this “New S&S” glut would be my starting suggestion, accompanied by a really good free magazine to curate and signpost the stuff each month. Indeed, one might bundle the magazine back-issues free with each audiobook. Such a thing, modestly priced, would be a big draw and a ‘sub-genre taster’ for many.

Audio would also mean that the old hands could cram in even more reading each month. Just slap on a pair of 300ft RF wireless headphones (not the infernal Bluetooth type), and ‘read’ while doing other things.

I’d also emphasise to young readers (probably male) the courage, pride, honour, what Lovecraft calls the barbarian virtue of “unbrokenness”, etc. Just look at how immensely popular Wilbur Smith’s manly books still are. Of course, a bit of sex never hurt either, something lacking in REH due to the constraints of his time. And perhaps a catchy new youth-friendly marketing formula, alongside the somewhat tired old “S&S”? How about MMM! — manliness, magic and maidens. Sounds like a catchy short title for the free magazine that might curate the “New S&S”.

A bumper Librivox release

12 Wednesday Jul 2023

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The new Librivox public domain Short Ghost and Horror Collection 068 leads with Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Abominations of Yondo”. There’s also Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright’s “The Closing Hand”; “The Curse of Yig” which is said here to be by Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop (Lovecraft goes un-credited, though he wrote in a letter that “this story is about 75% mine. All I had to work on was a synopsis”); and also Robert E. Howard’s “The Lost Race”.

Howard Days 2023

02 Tuesday May 2023

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The Silver Key has posted a long recap of the 2023 Robert E. Howard Days which have just successfully finished for this year. Also a “Howard Days Wrap Up” at the Rogues in the House podcast.

SpraguedeCampFan ran day-by-day posts, and his final one “Time to Come Home” has links to all the previous posts. There are abundant clear photographs.

Plus Savage journal entry #41 reports on a trip to Howard Days 2023, with photos.

The R.E. Howard Foundation has a post on “The journey of REH’s writing table: a piece of literary history”, on Howard’s lovingly restored writing table. This was a feature of this year’s Howard Days.

Wild Stars also has a set of pictures.

There was coverage in the local Brookhaven Courier, “Museum celebrates author Robert E. Howard”.

The Robert E. Howard Days: 2023 Events Schedule. No YouTube, podcast or audio files as yet, that I can find. I seem to recall that in previous years, the panel recordings surfaced online in due course.

Also in REH, and available along with the new affordable Collected Letters at Howard Days, I see we have a new edition of The Dark Man scholarly journal. ‘New’ since I last noticed it. Issue 13.1, January 2023 includes what appears to be a substantial survey of Conan’s predecessors. The issue is also interesting re: the editors being open to an essay on Tolkien.

I would assume that we’re moving toward the time of year when potential contributors for January 2024 should be thinking about what they might submit in the late summer?


Coming next, PulpFest 2023.

“The Teeth of Gwahlur at last!”

29 Saturday Apr 2023

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The French crowd-funder for La correspondance de Robert E. Howard et Howard P. Lovecraft is over 500%+ funded, and has topped 100,000 of those Euro things-which-have-no-symbol-on-my-keyboard. In American, $110,000.

French translation of the letters of Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft

25 Tuesday Apr 2023

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In France, the translator of their new Lovecraft editions is interviewed in interview with La Petit Journal. This is free and in HTML, so can be easily translated. The chat brings news of the next project…

Q: Today, a subscription is launched, until 4th May 2023, for the French translation of the correspondence between Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. How important is this exchange between the two authors, in terms of a better understand Lovecraft’s work?

A: We see the man at work, and in his exchanges with a friend and fellow author. They talk about literature, publishing, history and politics. It is, in a way, the “behind the scenes” of Lovecraft at work.

Q: What will this new French translation of the letters offer, compared to the original?

A: We have some original documents, but above all we intend to enrich this correspondence with our own critical apparatus. Along with several iconic documents: photos of the authors, of their friends, of the places where they lived, reproductions of their letters, covers of the magazines where they published, etc.

The crowdfunder is at a site I’d not known about, fr.ulule.com, as La correspondance de Robert E. Howard et Howard P. Lovecraft. It’s already been nearly 400%+ funded.

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