SKELOS #2
Now available!

Features an essay on REH:
“The Shadow Kingdom” and the Origins of Gothic Horror in Robert E. Howard’s Heroic Fantasy 
By Charles Hoffman

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Table of Contents

Short Fiction
The Keeping of Eleanor May – Angeline Hawkes
Slayers at the Gate – Adrian Cole                                                                    
Of Mist, and an Heirloom Sword – Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Medicine For the Dead (excerpt) – Arianna “Tex” Thompson
Bigger Than God – Cynthia Ward
A Binding of Souls – W. H. Pugmire
The Skin Man – Milton Davis (illustrated by Stanley Weaver, Jr.)
The Black Lion – Howard Andrew Jones
Amarante: A Tale of Old Tharduin – Scott Oden

Novelettes
The Eleventh Scarlet Hell – Robert M. Price (A Thongor tale illustrated by Val Mayerik)
Reverse the Charges – Jess Nevins

Poetry
Carmilla – K. A.  Opperman (illustrated by Esteban Maroto)
The Line of Late Retreat – Michael Walton
Xyre – Ashley Dioses
The Night Realm – Chad Hensley
Ride of the Witchfinder – Wade German
The Mockingbird – Pat Calhoun
A Revelation Dream – Kenneth Bykerk
The Wood – Frank Coffman
Shade of a Murdered Child – James McNew

Essays
Clark Ashton Smith in Carmel – Scott Connors
“The Shadow Kingdom” and the Origins of Gothic Horror in Robert E. Howard’s Heroic Fantasy – Charles Hoffman
The Alexander Romance as Weird Fiction – Benjamin Garstad

Special Features
Skull Session – Editorial by Mark Finn
Warrior Women of History – An illustrated gallery by Samuel Dillon (text by Jeffrey Shanks)
Cracking Skulls with Arianna “Tex” Thompson – An interview by Mark Finn
By Crom! – Rachel Kahn

The Bone Yard – Reviews
Dave Brzeski, Bobby Derie, Mike Hunter, Deuce Richardson, Jake Vander Weide, Keith West

Artists
Front cover:  Ernst Fuchs; Back cover; Allen Koszowski; Interior: Hieronymus Bosch, Samuel Dillon, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Mike Hunter, Rachel Kahn, Allen Koszowski, Esteban Maroto, Val Mayerik, Hugh Rankin, Stanley Weaver, Jr.

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Ofir (Bulgarian)
Konan Unishtozhitelya
Featuring:
"The Hyborian Age"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"Red Nails"
"Beyond the Black River"
"The Snout in the Dark"
http://howardworks.com/Konan_Unishtozhitelya-Ofir.html

Neohron  (Bulgarian)
Cernijat mec SF trilar 12
Featuring:  "The Devil in Iron"
http://howardworks.com/Cernijat_mec_SF_trilar_12-Neohron.html

Ozymandias Press
Four Tales of Terror
Featuring:
"The Dream Snake"
"The Hyena"
"The Fearsome Touch of Death"
"The Cairn on the Headland"
http://howardworks.com/FourTalesofTerror-OzymandiasPress.html

Jovian Press
Four Tales of Terror
Featuring:
"The Dream Snake"
"The Hyena"
"The Fearsome Touch of Death"
"The Cairn on the Headland"
http://howardworks.com/FourTalesofTerror-JovianPress.html

CONAN THE SLAYER #11
Coming in June!

Cullen Bunn (Writer), Sergio Dávila (Art), Michael Atiyeh (Color), and Thomas Grindberg (Cover)

Within the mystically resurrected island fortress of Xapur, Conan confronts an ancient demon with skin as hard as iron. Only an ancient dagger can slay the malign spirit, and the blade is there for the taking . . . if Conan can get past the enormous serpent that guards it!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale June 28

Dark Horse Comics

THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 34: 
  BETRAYAL IN ZAMORA AND OTHER STORIES
Now available!


by Roy Thomas (Author), Mike Docherty (Illustrator), Ricardo Villagrán (Illustrator), Alfredo Alcala (Illustrator), Ernie Chan (Illustrator)

One step ahead of a vengeful Kothian army, Conan leads a fleeing mercenary band into the dread Dark Valley, a necropolis once throned by a demon slain by Conan himself. But while the demon may be dead, waiting silently in the darkness is an empty suit of armor, waiting only for an unwary host to bring back into the world the armor's owner . . . the malefic Devourer of Souls!

The Chronicles of Conan reaches its final titanic volume, collecting classic Conan the Barbarian tales never-before collected and unavailable for nearly a quarter of a century.

Trade paperback, 7x10,  232 pages, Full Color, $19.99

Dark Horse Comics

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ELF (Bulgarian)
Bury Nad Orienta
Featuring:
"The Lion of Tiberias"
"The Sowers of the Thunder"
"Lord of Samarcand"
"The Shadow of the Vulture"
"The Fire of Asshurbanipal" (1)
http://howardworks.com/Bury_Nad_Orienta-ELF.html

Gemini (Bulgarian)
Mozacna nošt
Featuring: "The Thing on the Roof"
http://howardworks.com/Mozacna_nost-Gemini.html

Jovian Press
Almuric and Other Fantasies
Featuring:
"Almuric"
"Spear and Fang"
"The Voice of El-Lil"
"People of the Dark"
"Witch from Hell's Kitchen"
"The Lost Race"
http://howardworks.com/AlmuricandOtherFantasies-JovianPress.html

The Dark Horse Book of Horror
Coming in August!

Includes "Old Garfield's Heart" illustrated by Gary Gianni.

Mike Mignola, Hellboy, and a roster of great creators and characters explore the dark corners of the horror genre in 35 stories of witchcraft, ghosts, and the risen dead.

Originally published in four award-winning anthologies, these stories featured the debut of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's Beasts of Burden series, and standalone stories by Kelley Jones, Kurt Busiek, and many others.

In addition to the comics, Gary Gianni (Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea) illustrates stories by legendary authors such as Robert E Howard (Conan) and William Hope Hodgson (The House on the Borderland), and Scott Allie interviews experts in the occult fields, including a seance medium, and witch who specializes in love spells.

Collects: Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, the Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, and the Dark Horse Book of the Dead

Hardcover, 6” x 9”, Full Color, 368 pages, $19.99, On sale August 23

Conan the Slayer Volume 2
Coming in November!

by Cullen Bunn, Sergio Dávila, Admira Wijaya, and Michael Atiyeh

Softcover, $19.99