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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.

R.E. Howard Photo Album

28 Tuesday Mar 2023

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Howard Days usefully rounds up the Robert E. Howard publishing which is set to coincide with the 2023 Days. Including…

The long-awaited R.E. Howard Photo Album

R.E. Howard’s Poetry Pals

05 Thursday Jan 2023

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The latest New Year 2023 Cromcast podcast surveys “R.E. Howard’s Poetry Pals”, with…

a whirlwind tour through six of REH’s favorite poets

Howard Days 2023 – dates and theme

10 Saturday Sep 2022

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The 2023 R.E. Howard ‘Howard Days’ event has dates, 28th & 29th April 2023. This should mean somewhat cooler weather than Texas in a baking June…

Moving the event to late April will provide everyone with a more inviting environment and make the outdoor activities more pleasant.

Elsewhere I read the general state-weather summary…

The temperatures in Texas in April are comfortable with low of 55°F and and high up to 73°F. You can expect about 3 to 8 days of rain.

Sounds super, I wish I could be there. Book early, as I’m guessing this change will cause others to think likewise and lead to a big jump in attendance. Also because the April weather will make it easier to get “big name” Guests, and more than one. The better weather might even entice a band or two of costumed re-enactors?

They also have the 2023 theme announced, “100 Years of Weird Tales”, celebrating the founding of the unique magazine in 1923.

Glenn Lord Symposium 2022

18 Monday Jul 2022

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The opening 20-minute paper in the Glenn Lord Symposium 2022, now online at YouTube, is an illuminating one covering the first phase of topics under discussion in the R.E. Howard / Lovecraft letters. Starts at 3:50 mins. More video recordings are appearing on the same channel.

Also, a new related text article on “Robert E. Howard’s Philosophy of History”.

Recordings from Howard Days 2022

04 Monday Jul 2022

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Audio recordings from the 2022 Howard Days sessions are now being posted on the blog of The Cromcast: A Weird Fiction Podcast. Donations for future annual Howard Days events are always welcome, if you enjoy them. Eight so far, as posts:

* The REH Influence on Gaming.

* Robert E. Howard in the year 1932.

* The Glenn Lord Symposium. Three papers and panel.

* Guest of Honour speech at The Robert E. Howard Celebration Banquet.

* Late Night ‘In Conversation’ at the Pavilion, Cross Plains.

* Conan the Barbarian at 40. (Reminiscences of making the first two Conan movies).

* Rusty and Shelly Burke at the Cross Plains Public Library.

* What’s Up with REH? (Latest developments in Howard’s characters, in publishing and entertainment). Wrong media is linked on the post. The required audio is here. Some of the reveals: A “Red Nails” prequel novel by a top writer, The Blood of Serpent, as the first big ‘splash’ release in October 2022 to coincide with the 90th anniversary of Conan. Sounds good, as long as the action sounds like Howard. And a big sumptuous Conan artbook. Also a new monthly Titan Conan comic-book with top talent, to be released around the same back-to-uni time, now that Disney/Marvel has thrown the character overboard.

* A Chat with Matt John of Rogues in the House games podcast

Beware the Creative Commons licences, which are muddled. On the blog posts the audio is all very usefully placed under full Creative Commons Attribution. However, the licence is regrettably different on the Archive.org mirror-copies, adding the show-stopper of “No Derivatives”.

Lots of ‘bathroom’ echo on the main speaker’s audio for “What’s Up with REH?”, so I used it as a test-file for the Izotope RX 7 AI-powered audio repair software — which for months now I have been meaning to get around to installing and testing. Specifically for its ‘Dialogue De-reverb’ module. Works fine. I applied this preset on the standard ‘General Reduction’ preset, and after 25 minutes of re-rendering the audio and three minutes of saving the file I had a much more listenable version. This version is now on Archive.org and, though it’s a ‘derivative’ I’ve assumed the blog’s original CC Attribution licence applies.

“I felt obliged to drop a line to the mighty Conan…”

28 Thursday Apr 2022

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Tentaclii has gone a bit quiet on Robert E. Howard and Conan et al. It’s not because I’ve lost interested, but because the material isn’t there to note. There seems to have been a lack of suitable items recently, other than the new cash-in comics and foreign translations and suchlike so ably tracked by Messages from Crom.

But now the Robert E. Howard Days (aka Howard Days) in Cross Plains, Texas, are just over six weeks away. It may be that various scholarly and thoughtful publications are being timed to appear for that.

In the meantime I see that Exploring the Worlds of REH Omnibus collects Fred Blosser’s themed ebooks (Howard’s Weird Texas, etc) into a single paperback. Along with eight new articles. I see he also has the survey ebooks Sons of Ringo: The Great Spaghetti Western Heroes and More Sons of Ringo.

One item I thought might be of note was Conan the Barbarian Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years – Queen of the Black Coast. This was a chunky Marvel 1970s Buscema/Thomas reprint volume released last Christmas. But be warned that the cover and title is misleading. On reading the details you find this is only the run-up to his meeting Belit the ‘Queen of the Black Coast’ (issues #43-59). Conan meets her in #58 and then #59-to-#100 or thereabouts is the rest of the Belit run, as ably collected in Dark Horse’s earlier reprint book Chronicles of Conan, Volumes 8-12. So, be warned that you’re not getting the run that the new ‘Original Marvel Years’ cover seems to promise.

I took a look to see if I had missed anything else in the last year or so, and noted “Der Barbar aus dem Norden: Nordenbilder in Robert E. Howards Conan-Erzahlungen”, in the journal NORDEUROPAforum, 2020. On ‘images of the ancient North as they appear in R.E. Howard’s Conan’. It may interest some readers here, especially because it’s under full Creative Commons Attribution and is thus available to be translated from the German.

Also there’s now a new and mighty-thewed blog-post category here at Tentaclii, REH. I’ve gone back and retrospectively tagged as many posts as I can find.

Final Reckonings with Bloch

20 Wednesday Apr 2022

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On SF Crows Nest, Eamonn Murphy has a new long review of Final Reckonings: The Complete Stories Of Robert Bloch (Volume 1)…

This first volume of ‘The Complete Stories’ is widely available for about £10 or less on various sites and that’s a bargain. For some reason, the next two volumes are rarer and much more expensive.

Also, over at The Silver Key a new review of the new Robert E. Howard Changed My Life.

Zothique 9, 10 and Studi Lovecraftiani 20

21 Monday Mar 2022

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Since I last looked, the Italian Lovecraftian scholars have released several new journals.


Zothique #9 appeared at the end of September 2021.

* “an article on “The Weird and Sword & Sorcery”, which highlights the ‘Celtic substratum’.”

* “a small but succulent special section dedicated to the theme of music in weird literature, introduced by an essay by Davide Arecco, researcher and professor of History of science and technology at the University of Genoa, and with rare or unpublished stories ( by L.A. Lewis, Clark Ashton Smith, Emil Petaja, A.W. Calder, Jessie Adelaide Middleton), poems (by Jo. Dart and Robert Chambers) and also a comic that, signed by the master Gino Carosini (author of the text and drawings) presents a meeting as strange as it is unexpected: the one between the tales of Lovecraft and the music of Chet Baker!”

* “the fourth part of Mariano D’Anza’s long study on Robert E. Howard’s poetry”


Zothique #10 which apparently appeared a few weeks later as an “Autumn 2021” edition. This is the second Robert E. Howard special, of a planned three.

* “another substantial selection of articles and essays dedicated to the Bard of Cross Plains, together with a choice of unpublished works that expand the Italian bibliography of the writer.”

* “Giovanni Valenzano offers a very detailed excursus on werewolves and other shape-shifting beasts in Howard’s fiction”

* “Andrea Gualchierotti with brilliant erudition speaks to us of magic and witchcraft in the cycle of Conan the Barbarian, finding surprising parallels with the real magicians of the classical world.”

* “Mariano D’Anza’s work on the sources of Howardian poetry continues, this being his fifth section.”


Studi Lovecraftiani #20 with the announcement post being dated 12th January 2022.

* “a thorough examination of HPL’s cultural heritage in modern literature and media”

* “an in-depth study of cursed grimoires and impossible books that sprang from its pen and that of other authors”

* “a piece on Lovecraft’s monsters seen as a psychological metaphor, the first part of a learned study on the abstraction of corporeality in HPL’s fiction”

* “an original article that discloses a source never before identified for the short story “The Nameless City”.”

* “three unpublished [in Italian] writings by HPL himself, starting with a memory of his school days, where the writer also tells a funny episode that occurred during the graduation ceremony; then one of his essays where he criticizes the famous poem “The Waste Land” by Thomas Eliot, and, translated here for the first time, there are also his extraordinary notes that he needed to write the famous short story “The Shadow over Innsmouth”.”

The Italian Horror Magazine also notes that #20 has…

* “”Lovecraft’s Call: A Few Considerations on the Cultural Heritage of the Providence Dreamer.” The last part of which talks… “about Lovecraft the philosopher and conservative, a man flanked by authors apparently very distant from him such as Cesare Pavese, William Butler Yeats, Yukio Mishima and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ezra Pound and even the late-stage Pasolini.”

* “Lovecraft and the Bible, examining the influence of the King James Bible on Lovecraft’s tales.”

* “an interview with Richard Stanley, director of The Colour Out Of Space movie.”

Book bits

10 Thursday Mar 2022

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Some books bits that don’t seem to justify a post on their own.

The European Conservative journal has a free review-article on the “Afterlife of an American Pulpster”…

Two recent American novels feature not the vivid characters who were products of R.E. Howard’s imaginative pen, but fictionalized versions of the man himself. Teel James Glenn’s A Cowboy in Carpathia was published in 2020 by Pro Se Press. David Pinault’s Providence Blue appeared in 2021 from Ignatius Press.

hplovecraft.com now has the table-of-contents for the third book in The Robert H. Waugh Library of Lovecraftian Criticism. Looks tasty. The entire three-volume set will weigh in at 900 pages.

Taskerland reviews, as a Lovecraft newbie daunted by I Am Providence, the shorter H.P Lovecraft: A Short Biography. This being S.T. Joshi’s 100-page whistle-stop abridgement.

S.T. Joshi’s Miscellaneous Writings and his 1980s Journals have been published.

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