Howard Days 2017
Frank Coffman - Through a Glass Too Darkly

Howard Scholar Frank Coffman argues that we often view Conan through an entirely too dark and brutish lens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxG-uLfw5E

Filmed by Ben Friberg

Howard Days 2017
Howard Typescripts

Howard Scholars Paul Herman, Rob Roehm and Patrice Louinet talk about the detective work they've done on Howard's original typescripts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv4SyDWLvbg

Filmed by Ben Friberg

Howard Days 2017
Post Oaks and Sand Roughs

Howard Scholar Jason Ray Carney talks about Howard's unpublished semi-biographical novel, Post Oaks and Sand Roughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN9VdjaYE7o

Filmed by Ben Friberg

Conan and the OAK, Part 2 - 1934 
by Bobby Derie
Now online!

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.

http://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2017/07/conan-and-oak-part-2-1934-by-bobby-derie.html?spref=fb

New at Howard Works

Clube de Autores (Portuguese)
Almuric
Featuring:  "Almuric"
http://howardworks.com/Almuric-Clube_de_Autores.html

Clube de Autores  (Portuguese)
Pombos do Inferno
Featuring: "Pigeons from Hell"
http://howardworks.com/Pombos_do_Inferno-Clube_de_Autores.html

Isaac Mordecai Howard
What the Nation Owes to the South
Featuring:  "What the Nation Owes to the South"
http://howardworks.com/What_the_Nation_Owes_to_the_South-IMHoward.html

Thanks to Patrice Louinet for the information and scan of this title.

Robert E. Howard Foundation
The Man-Eaters of Zamboula (Early Draft)
Featuring:
"The Man-Eaters of Zamboula" (Early Draft)
"The Man-Eaters of Zamboula" (Untitled synopsis)
http://howardworks.com/Man-EatersofZamboula-EarlyDraft-REH_Foundation.html

Upcoming REH related publications.
Estimated ship dates as of 07/01/2017
All dates are subject to change.

Recently available
CONAN THE SLAYER #10 (Dark Horse)
KULL ETERNAL #1 (IDW)
SWORDS AGAINST DARKNESS (Prime Books)(Features "The Tower of the Elephant")


06/28/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER #11 (Dark Horse)

07/19/2017
KULL ETERNAL #2 (IDW)

08/02/2017
CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 3: ANCIENT GODS AND SORCERERS TPB (Dark Horse)

08/09/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER #12 (Dark Horse)

08/23/2017
THE DARK HORSE BOOK OF HORROR (Features "Old Garfield's Heart")

08/30/2017
KULL ETERNAL #3 (IDW)

09/20/2017
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #1(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

11/11/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER TPB VOLUME 2 (Dark Horse)

11/27/2017
KULL ETERNAL #4 (IDW)

SWORDS AGAINST DARKNESS 
Edited by Paula Guran
Now available!

Features: “The Tower of the Elephant”

Flashing swords and fearsome magicks . . . high adventure and wondrous wizardry . . . dread monsters and vast rewards . . .

Tales of sword and sorcery at their best offer keen wit, ingenious perception, freewheeling imagination, and canny invention. From its swashbuckling beginnings of good versus evil battles to clashes of more nuanced principles set in complex settings to havoc shaped by grittier perspectives, ambiguous morality, deep history, and expansive worldbuilding―readers continue to be thrilled by the exploits of great warriors and mighty mages.

Swords Against Darkness: an epic anthology of short stories and novellas from classic to modern, each tale a memorable vision from masters of mistresses of heroic fantasy past and present!

Contents
Paula Guran, Introduction: “Knowledge Takes Precedence Over Death”

Forging & Shaping
Robert E. Howard, “The Tower of the Elephant”
C. L. Moore, “Hellsgarde”
Clark Ashton Smith, “The Dark Eidolon”
Jack Vance, “Liane the Wayfarer”
Leigh Brackett, “Black Amazon of Mars”
Fritz Leiber, “Ill Met in Lankhmar”
Michael Moorcock, “While the Gods Laugh”

Normalizing & Annealing
Tanith Lee, “Hero at the Gates”
C. J. Cherryh, “A Thief in Korianth”
Karl Edward Wagner, “Undertow”
Katherine Kurtz, “Swords Against the Marluk”
Mercedes Lackey, “Out of the Deep”
Michael Shea, “Epistle from Lebanoi”
James Enge, “Payment Deferred”
John Balestra, “The Swords of Her Heart” (original)

Tempering & Sharpening
Joanna Russ, “Bluestocking”
Samuel R. Delany, “The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers”
Elizabeth Moon, “First Blood”
Saladin Ahmed, “Where Virtue Lives”
Scott Lynch, “The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats”
Steven Erikson, “Goats of Glory”
Elizabeth Bear, “The Ghost Makers”
Kameron Hurley, “The Plague Givers”

Trade Paperback, 6" x 9", 576 pages, $19.95

Prime Books