{"id":15620,"date":"2018-09-04T07:15:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:17:25","slug":"fred-blosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/04\/fred-blosser\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Blosser’s Guide books to Robert E. Howard’s fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see there’s a new award-winning book series from Fred Blosser, surveying all of Robert E. Howard’s fiction. The first was his collection of essays Savage Scrolls<\/a><\/em>, which was the Winner of the 2018 Atlantean Award<\/a> from the Robert E. Howard Foundation in June 2018. As well as surveying Conan and his ilk, Savage Scrolls<\/em> has a chapter each on: Howard’s proto-Conan Crusader stories<\/a>; the mostly posthumous Francis Xavier Gordon and Kirby O’Donnell<\/a> desert adventure stories; and a final chapter surveying Howard’s ‘Jungle Horrors’.<\/p>\n

This was followed by two new books on Howard’s fiction from Blosser.<\/p>\n

1) Ar-I-E\u2019ch and the Spell of Cthulhu: An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard’s Lovecraftian Fiction<\/a><\/em> is obviously a must-buy for Lovecraftians, especially given his Atlantean Award for the first book. The Kindle 10% free-sample of around 38 pages reveals this is a “Revised Second Edition”, the first presumably being the paper edition of 2017.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2) The second book surveys the regional American weird-horror fiction, titled Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengeance: An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard’s American Horrors<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

For those less certain about getting Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengeance<\/em>, here are its contents:<\/p>\n

Robert E. Howard: Lone Star Conjurer.<\/p>\n

Wraiths of Ancient Memory: Texas of the Far Past.<\/p>\n

Shadows Along the Cattle Trails: Frontier Texas.<\/p>\n

Derricks and Devils: Modern Texas.<\/p>\n

Home Is Where the Haunt Is: Robert E. Howard\u2019s Corner of Texas.<\/p>\n

Swamps of Voodoo Vengeance: Indigenous Horrors in the South.<\/p>\n

Fear in the Piney Woods.<\/p>\n

Howard’s American Haunts and Monsters… and Where to Find Them.<\/p>\n

Selected Reading List.<\/p>\n

Appendix: Conjure Men. Cimmerians, and the comics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see there’s a new award-winning book series from Fred Blosser, surveying all of Robert E. Howard’s fiction. The first …<\/p>\n

Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-reh","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53844,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions\/53844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}