Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
REH material from the estate of Glenn Lord will be included.

With the advent of 2018, the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is now just three months away (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center). As those who’ve attended past conventions know, we’ve had some dynamite Friday night auctions, and this year’s Friday night auction (held the evening of April 6) will be no exception.

We’re honored to announce that this year’s Friday night auction will draw on material from the estate of Glenn Lord. As literary executor of the Robert E. Howard estate for nearly three decades, Lord was instrumental in popularizing the works of Howard, and in making reams of previously unpublished Howard material available. It would be difficult to overstate his contributions to Howard’s legacy. Not surprisingly, his own pulp collection was centered around Howard, but also contained many other titles as well. If you’re a fan of pulps – and particularly if you’re a fan of the man who brought us Conan and so many other memorable characters – you won’t want to miss it!

We’ll be posting more details over the coming weeks concerning the pulps, fanzines and other rare material that will be in the auction. For now, we’ll just post the one piece of original art that will be in the auction – Frank Utpatel’s original cover art for the second Robert E. Howard Arkham House collection, “The Dark Man and Others”. The art was a little too large for my scanner, so these images are very slightly cropped, but we’ll post full sized shots later. We’re showing it in two images. The image on the left is Utpatel’s original art, on illustration paper. The image on the right is scanned with the overlay (which contains some image and text) on top of the art.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention


Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Robert E. Howard Days 2018 
June 8th and 9th!

The following information is from the Howard Days website.

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A New Year brings us a new Howard Days!

The 2018 version of Robert E. Howard Days takes place on Friday and Saturday, June 8th and 9th, at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas. Once again, fans from all over the world will gather to celebrate the life and legacy of the incomparable Robert E. Howard!

Project Pride of Cross Plains, along with the Robert E. Howard Foundation and REHupa, the Robert E. Howard United Press Association will be your sponsors and hosts once again. This year, we will celebrate members of all three of these organizations, along with the hundreds of REH fans from all over the U.S. and the world with our Howard Days theme of CELEBRATING REH FANS. Our Guest of Honor for 2018 is one of the mainstays of Howard Fandom, "Indiana Bill" Cavalier.

Again this year, Howard Days attendees will enjoy the fellowship and camaraderie felt by REH fans from all over the world! The Robert E. Howard Museum and adjoining Alla Ray Morris Pavilion are the gathering points and will be open to all (at absolutely no cost)! All of our regular activities will be in place: Tours of the REH Museum and grounds are ongoing; a Bus Tour of Cross Plains and environs takes place Friday morning; a Hot Dog Lunch, the Celebration Banquet and a honest to Texas Barbeque feast will keep you fed; numerous panels, seminars and demonstrations will feed your fannish and intellectual curiosities; you can marvel at Original Howard Manuscripts on display at the Cross Plains Public Library, you can acquire REH books, comics, magazines, t-shirts, hats and souvenirs in the Museum Gift Shop; the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press will be set up to sell true text Howard books; there will be a special REH Days postal cancellation stamp at the Cross Plains Post Office; and, we will have a small Dealers Area adjacent to the Pavilion this year. Plus, we promise to have a surprise or two to make things interesting!

We are in the process of getting our panels. scheduling & registration and logistics lined up to give you another great experience at Howard Days, so please stay tuned to this page as well as our Howard Days and REH Foundation Facebook pages.

It's never too early to start planning to join in all the fun and fellowship that Howard Days can provide for you, as we Celebrate the Fans of Robert E. Howard! Y'all come!

And we promise that Cross Plains will be thawed out come June!
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Stay tuned to the Howard Days website for the latest information.
http://www.howarddays.com/





Monday, January 1, 2018

Upcoming REH related publications.
Estimated ship dates as of 01/01/2018
All dates are subject to change.

Available since last update
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #4(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

In your future
01/17/2017
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #5(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

01/31/2018
KULL ETERNAL #3 (IDW)

02/21/2017
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #6(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

03/07/2018
KULL ETERNAL TPB (likely to be delayed)

05/09/2018
CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 4 TPB (Dark Horse)

Date to be announced
KULL ETERNAL #4 (IDW)
KULL ETERNAL #5 (IDW)
PICTURES IN THE FIRE (REH Foundation Press)
THE ROBERT E. HOWARD GUIDE by Patrice Louinet (Skelos Press)

Sunday, December 31, 2017

New at Howard Works

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Conan. Krwawy monolit
Featuring:  "Pigeons from Hell"
Also features other stories rewritten to be Conan tales.
http://howardworks.com/Conan-Krwawy_monolit-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html


Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Jastrzebie outremeru
Featuring:
"Hawks of Outremer"
"The Blood of Belshazzar"
"The Slave-Princess"
http://howardworks.com/Jastrzebie_outremeru-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html


Audible Audio
Raging Bull Publishing
War on Bear Creek
Featuring:  "War on Bear Creek"
http://howardworks.com/WaronBearCreek-RagingBullPublishing.html


Sir Angels
Beyond the Black River
Featuring:  "Beyond the Black River"
http://howardworks.com/BeyondtheBlackRiver-SirAngels.html




Sunday, December 24, 2017

Robert E. Howard's Weird Detectives
By Bobby Derie

OCCULT DETECTIVE QUARTERLY #3 features a seven page specially commissioned article "Robert E. Howard's Weird Detectives" by Bobby Derie.

Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 122 pages, B&W, $12.95
Available from Amazon.com