ROBERT E. HOWARD DAYS

June 6-8, 2019

2019 HOWARD DAYS SCHEDULE

THURSDAY JUNE 6
2:00 – 4:00 pm: The Robert E. Howard House and Museum is open to the public. There are no docents on duty but the Gift Shop will be open and the grounds and Pavilion available to all.
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Fish Fry at the Cross Plains Senior Center.
6:00 pm: Barbarian Festival Parade down Main Street in Cross Plains.
Afterwards, Howard Fellowship at the Pavilion

FRIDAY JUNE 7
8:30 am until gone: Coffee and donuts at the Pavilion, compliments of Project Pride
9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum and Grounds open to the public. The adjacent Alla Ray Morris Pavilion will be open until late night.
9 am – 4 pm: REH Postal Cancellation Souvenir at Cross Plains Post Office. Friday Only.
9 am – 11 am: Bus Tour of Cross Plains & Surrounding Areas. Friday Only.
10 am to 4 pm: REH Foundation Press canopy and Dealers Area open on grounds east of Museum.
10 am – 5 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open. Original Robert E. Howard typescripts along with original Weird Tales magazines will be on display. The Conan Board Game and the Conan Role-playing Game will be presented.
11 am: PANEL: A History of Project Pride and the Robert E. Howard Museum.
NOTE: Presented at the House & Pavilion.
NOON: Hot Dog Lunch hosted by Project Pride at the Pavilion. Donations are welcome!
1:30 pm: PANEL: The Writers of REH
2:30 pm: PANEL: The Fourth Annual Glenn Lord Symposium.
Following this panel will be the presentations of the 2017 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards.
5:30 – 6:30 pm: Silent Auction items available for viewing & bidding at Banquet site
6:30 pm: Robert E. Howard Celebration Banquet & Silent Auction at the Family Life Center of the Baptist Church on Main Street. Guest of Honor Speaker: David C. Smith
9:00 pm PANEL: Fists at the Ice House, Celebrating 90 Years of Sailor Steve Costigan.
NOTE: Presented on the actual Ice House grounds where Howard boxed!

Afterward there will be Howard Fellowship at the Pavilion.
All are welcome and adult beverages are allowed.

SATURDAY JUNE 8
9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum open to the public. The adjacent Alla Ray Morris Pavilion will be open until late night.
9 am – 4 pm: BARBARIAN FESTIVAL at Treadway Park, 3 blocks west of REH House
10 am – 3 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open. Original Robert E. Howard typescripts along with original Weird Tales magazines will be on display The Conan Board Game and the Conan Role-playing Game will be presented.
10 am to 4 pm: REH Foundation Press canopy and Dealers Area open on grounds east of Museum.
11 am PANEL: The Sword & Sorcery Poetry of Robert E. Howard
NOON: Lunch and/or Barbarian Festival activities at your leisure
1:30 pm PANEL: Kull, Conan Solomon Kane: The Original S&S Characters?
2:30 pm PANEL: What’s Up with REH?
4:30 pm: Tour of the 100 year old REH House Grounds
6 to 8 pm: Sunset BBQ at the Pavilion
At twilight/after BBQ: Multi-language reading of Howard’s poem “Cimmeria” + more REH poetry read aloud from the Museum porch.

Afterward there will be Howard Fellowship at the Pavilion.
All are welcome and adult beverages are allowed.

Special Announcements will be ongoing over both days,
There will be special guests and extemporaneous events: readings, book signings and surprises happening throughout Friday and Saturday

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PANELS LAST ONE HOUR AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1000 N. MAIN ST. IN CROSS PLAINS, unless noted.

Robert E. Howard Days  

Conan le Cimmérien - La Citadelle écarlate
Now available!

The Scarlet Citadel

The decay of a king. The fall of a kingdom.

Everything starts on a battlefield. Conan, then king of Aquilonia, faces a coalition of traitors led by the wizard Tsotha-Lanthi who, to overcome the rage of the Cimmerian, uses his spells before neutralizing it in the most cowardly way. Captured alive, Conan is taken to the terrible jails of the Scarlet Citadel to suffer a worse fate than death and obtain his abdication, while the wizard's armies march to his capital. Will the horror of the prison and the dreadful magic of the wizard overcome the inflexible resolution of Conan? Will he manage to escape to reach his people in time?

Luc Brunschwig and Étienne Le Roux take up the challenge of adapting one of Conan's darkest news, in which the Cimmerian probably makes the biggest fall in his history: from glorious king, he becomes a pathetic prisoner. A black story, panting, full of diplomatic issues and tensions, where the myth becomes human again.

Language: French
Scriptwriter: Luc Brunschwig
Designer: Etienne Le Roux
Full Color
Size: 240 x 320 mm
72 pages
Shaping: Hardcover
Price: 14.95 €

Glénat

Season 8, Episode 8: 
The Sowers of the Thunder with Rusty Burke!

New post at the Cromcast Podcast website.
https://thecromcast.blogspot.com/2019/03/season-8-episode-8-sowers-of-thunder.html

Hither Came Conan:  The Servants of Bit-Yakin
By James McGlothlin

New post at the Black Gate Blog.
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/03/25/hither-came-conan-james-mcglothlin-on-the-servants-of-bit-yakin/

New at Howard Works

Editrice Nord (Italian)
Le avventure di Solomon Kane
Featuring:
"Skulls in the Stars"
"The Right Hand of Doom"
"Red Shadows"
"Rattle of Bones"
"The Castle of the Devil"
"The Moon of Skulls"
"The One Black Stain" (poem)
"The Blue Flame of Vengeance"
"The Hills of the Dead"
"Hawk of Basti"
"The Return of Sir Richard Grenville" (poem)
"Wings in the Night"
"The Footfalls Within"
"The Children of Asshur"
"Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (1, original, poem)
http://howardworks.com/Le_avventure_di_Solomon_Kane-Editrice_Nord.html

Editrice Nord (Italian)
Solomon Kane il giustiziere
Featuring:
"Skulls in the Stars"
"The Right Hand of Doom"
"Red Shadows"
"Rattle of Bones"
"The Castle of the Devil"
"The Moon of Skulls"
"The One Black Stain" (poem)
"The Blue Flame of Vengeance"
"The Hills of the Dead"
"Hawk of Basti"
"The Return of Sir Richard Grenville" (poem)
"Wings in the Night"
"The Footfalls Within"
"The Children of Asshur"
"Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (1, original, poem)
http://howardworks.com/Solomon_Kane_il_giustiziere-Editrice_Nord.html

Adventure House
Pulp Facsimile: The Magic Carpet Magazine V3N1
Featuring:
Letter to Magic Carpet Magazine, Nov. 1932,
"Thanks very much for the remarks . . ."
http://howardworks.com/magiccarpet-january1933-adventure_house.html

Register and Tribune Syndicate
Conan the Barbarian Newspaper Strip
Featuring:  "The Tower of the Elephant"
http://howardworks.com/ConanNewspaperStrip-RegisterTribuneSyndicate.html

09/04/1978 - First Daily

09/10/1978 - First Sunday

10/25/1980 - Tower of the Elephant

12/04/1980 - Tower of the Elephant

04/124/1981 - Final Strip

KBOO: Gremlin Time
The Horror from the Mound (audio)
http://howardworks.com/KBOO-GremlinTime.html

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: 
THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 
Now available!

Penciled by Barry Windsor-Smith & John Buscema With Gil Kane, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, Esteban Maroto, Tony DeZuniga, Sonny Trinidad, Alex Niño, Tim Conrad, Pablo Marcos, Gray Morrow, Gene Colan, Val Mayerik, Howard Chaykin, Walter Simonson, Jess Jodloman & Bruce Jones

Covers by Gabriele Dell’otto & Boris Vallejo (Direct Market)

Crom! This inaugural volume ushers in Marvel’s line of definitive Savage Sword of Conan collections. After the breakout success of Conan’s color comic, Marvel brought the legendary sword-and-sorcery saga of Robert E. Howard’s hero to its black-and-white magazine line. In lushly illustrated novel-length adventures with all the drama, violence and allure the comic book medium can offer, writer Roy Thomas and Marvel’s greatest artists craft a host of Conan classics like Barry Windsor-Smith’s “Red Nails” and John Buscema’s “Black Colossus” and “A Witch Shall Be Born” featuring the infamous Tree of Death are just the beginning!

Collecting SAVAGE TALES (1971) #1-5 and SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (1974) #1-12 and SPECIAL (1975) #1.

Format: Hardcover
Price: $125.00
Size: 7-1/4" X 10-7/8"
Pages: 1072

Marvel Comics 

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #3 
Now available!

Gerry Duggan (Writer)
Ron Garney (Art)
Cover by Alex Ross
Variant Cover by Kaare Andrews

THE DEADLY CATACOMBS OF KOGA THUN!

* CONAN descends into Stygian catacombs in search of a mystical treasure...
* But what secrets does the trove hold, and can Conan trust his compatriots?
* No matter--the undead forces of KOGA THUN have other plans for the barbarian!
* PLUS: The next chapter in an all-new CONAN novella, running through the SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN series!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

Marvel Comics