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Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards

Congratulations to the nominees!

Here is the list of the top three finalists for this year's Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards.
The winners will be announced at Howard Days on June 7th.

There will also be a special CROM Award as voted by the Board of Directors of the Foundation,
but that's a secret until the Awards Show.

REH FOUNDATION AWARDS 2018
Top Three Category Finalists

Atlantean — Outstanding Achievement, Book (non-anthology/collection)
FRED BLOSSER – Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengence (Pulp Hero Press)
DON HERRON and LEO GRIN – Famous Someday: A Robert E. Howard Biography (The Cimmerian Press)
DAVID C. SMITH – Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography (Pulp Hero Press)

The Hyrkanian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay (Print)
BOBBY DERIE – “That Fool Olson” – Lovecraft Annual 12
RICK LAI – “Poseidon and the Gods of the Robert E. Howard Universe” – Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents #4: Pulpourri
DAMON YOUNG – “I Love, I Slay, And Am Content” – Island Magazine #124

The Cimmerian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay (Online)
BOBBY DERIE – “Conan and E’ch-Pi-El: Robert E. Howard in the Biographies of H. P. Lovecraft” – On An Underwood No. 5
DEUCE RICHARDSON – “Stephen Fabian and Robert E. Howard (3 Parts)” – DMR Books Blog
KEITH TAYLOR – “Black Vulmea – Robert E. Howard’s Roughneck Pirate (2 Parts)” – DMR Books Blog

The Venarium — Emerging Scholar
BOB BYRNE – Contributed essays for Black Gate
PHILIP EMERY – Completed Doctoral Thesis on REH and Sword and Sorcery
NICOLE EMMELHAINZ – Presented paper at Glenn Lord Symposium

The Stygian—Outstanding Achievement, Website or Periodical
BLACK GATE (John O’Neill)
ON AN UNDERWOOD NO. 5 (Todd Vick)
REH FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER (Lee Breakiron)

The Black Lotus – Outstanding Achievement, Multimedia
THE CROMCAST (audio podcast) – Josh Adkins, Luke Dodd, and Jon Larson
HOWARD DAYS 2018 (videos)– Ben Friberg
ROGUES IN THE HOUSE PODCAST – Matt Sullivan, Logan Whitney, and Alex Kostopoulos

The Black River—Special Achievement
MARK HALL – For his years of service as editor of The Dark Man
JEFFREY SHANKS, ANDREW McFEATERS, THADRA STANTON, and HEATHER YOUNG – For the National Park Service Robert E. Howard House Archaeology Project
ROY THOMAS – for his publication of Barbarian Life, the history of Conan in the comics.

The Rankin — Artistic achievement in the depiction of REH’s life and/or work
BILL CAVALIER – Cover Art for Pictures in the Fire (REHF Press)
TOM GRINDBERG – Cover art for Conan the Pirate sourcebook for Conan RPG (Modiphius) – Depicts “Queen of the Black Coast”
RONAN TOULHOAT – Conan le Cimmérien, Tome 2 : Le colosse noir (Glenat) – Depicts “Black Colossus”

Black Circle Award – Lifetime Achievement 
FRED BLOSSER
PAUL HERMAN
DONALD WOLLHEIM (posthumous)
As a 60% majority vote was not achieved for any candidate, there is no Black Circle Award