New at Howard Works

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el usurpador
Featuring: 
"The Treasure of Tranicos"
"Wolves Beyond the Border"
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_usurpador-Editorial_Bruguera.html

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el vagabundo
Featuring: 
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The Flame Knife"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_vagabundo-Editorial_Bruguera.html

Fiction House Press
Fantasy Magazine #1 (Facsimile reprint)
Featuring:  "The Black Stranger"
http://howardworks.com/FantasyMagazine1-FictionHousePress.html

Tom Munnerlyn
Austin Volume 4 Number 1 [Distributed in REHUPA #121]
Featuring: 
"Aha! Or the Mystery of the Queen’s Necklace"
"Unhand Me, Villain!"
http://howardworks.com/AustinV4N1-REHupa121-TomMunnerlyn.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan #29
Featuring:  "The Hall of the Dead"  (Part 1 of 3, graphic adaptation)
http://howardworks.com/Conan29-DarkHorse.html

2022 REHF Awards Results

The Robert E. Howard Foundation is pleased to announce the winners for the 2022 Robert E. Howard Awards:

Atlantean Award:  Todd Vick: Renegades and Rogue: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard

Valusian Award:  Jason M Waltz: Editor: REH Changed My Life

Hyrkanian Award:  Rob Roehm: "Robert E. Howard and the Later Weird Tales", in The Weird Tales Story: Expanded and Enhanced

Cimmerian Award:  Gabriel Momola: "The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race"

Venarium Award: (TIE)   Brian Murphy and Willard M. Oliver

Black Lotus Award:   Rob Roehm: Howard History

Costigan Award:  Jason Ray Carney: Editor: Whetstone: Amateur Magazine of Pulp Sword and Sorcery

Rankin Award:  Bill Cavalier: 2021 Howard Days Poster

Special Awards Winners

Crom Award: Lee Breakiron

Black Circle Award: Charles Hoffman

Congratulations to the winners and to all of the nominees!

Thanks to John Bullard for passing the information along.

Ablaze Publishing
Now available!

THE CIMMERIAN: HOUR OF THE DRAGON #4
Writer: Robert E. Howard, Julien Blondel 
Art: Valentin Sécher
Cover A: Kendrick Lim
Cover B: Garry Brown
Cover C: Marco Rudy
Cover D: Carlos Nieto

Robert E. Howard's Conan is brought to life UNCENSORED!  

Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual.  Read the story as he intended!
The showdown between Conan and Xaltotun is at hand! But it will take more than just an army to take back the thrones that were stolen. To take on a wizard of such dark power, Conan will need a little magic himself so he can once again be king!

Bonus material included: The original Robert E. Howard story is included!

Full Color, 7x10, 32 pages, $3.99.

Steve Harrison's Casebook

by Robert E Howard

Now available!

Rob Roehm (Editor), Don Herron (Introduction)

Presenting the complete collection of Robert E. Howard's private eye stories starring Steve Harrison! Everything in this volume - stories, drafts, synopses - was pulled directly from Howard's own typescripts, including an early draft of "Graveyard Rats," the most terrifying of Harrison's adventures. In these pages you will enter a nightmarish world that blends weird mystery and heart-stopping horror, with Steve Harrison as your guide, a powerful man who is more likely to tear into a fight with a mace or a battle axe than a gun. Harrison has more in common with Howard's sword-swinging Conan than Hammett's Continental Op, but he helps to establish the roots of a noir style that would later find success with Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Harrison might walk the mean streets and back alleys of the 1930s, but he has the soul of a barbaric savage, possessed by the crimson instinct for slaughter.

Hardcover, $33.99 

The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume 2
Now available in hardcover and paperback!

The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard volume 2, Ultimate Edition, is now available on Amazon in both hardcover and paperback.

Robert E. Howard's correspondence continues in this second volume of Collected Letters. Having achieved his goal of becoming of a self-supporting, working writer - popular among leaders for his/her, fantasy, and humorous boxing stories - Howard begins corresponding with other writers, most notably, H.P. Lovecraft. Read the beginnings of their long running debates, including many draft pages which reveal how Howard's arguments evolved. These letters also showcase Howard's love of Texas as he embarks on his unofficial job as Raconteur of Texas History and life in letters to Lovecraft, August Derleth, and others.

Discover some of the early elements of writing style and personality that would go on to define Robert E. Howard, the professional writer. Known to his friends and family simply as "Bob," these early letters illustrate a life-long interest in poetry, boxing, folk songs, and the Irish and the Celts. These letters provide an intimate window as Howard works to develop his writer's craft, creating poems, dramas, parodies of Fu Manchu and detective stories, as well as ribald and bawdy plays and poems. Also revealed are Howard's views on the world at large, including political, social, and philosophical issues, as well as details of his day-to-day life. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get to know Bob Howard on a more personal level, as his friends once knew him.

The publication of "Spear and Fang" in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales introduced the world to Robert E. Howard; in 1936, that same magazine - as well as legions of fans - mourned his loss. In a writing career that spanned little more than a decade, Howard created a stable of characters whose influences extend well into the current century, most notably Conan the Cimmerian, whose adventures have appeared in various media from a syndicated comic strip to major motion pictures. The incredible popularity of Howard's Hyborean adventurer has eclipsed the many and varied works he produced in other genres. Howard wrote prolifically in the boxing and western genres, creating character series that were as popular in the magazines they appeared in as Conan was in Weird Tales. Straight adventure, horror, weird menace - Howard's byline appeared in a plethora of magazines catering to a broad variety of readerships spanning the 1920s and '30s. He was also a gifted and prolific poet.

The Collected Letters reveal a side of Howard's personality that readers of his fiction might not suspect existed. Full of humor, philosophical musings, travelogue, historical sketches, and opinions on contemporary politics and events - local, national, and international - Howard's letters provide important insight into the life and times of one of the most influential pulp-era writers of the twentieth century.

This second volume of a three-volume set collects all of Howard's known correspondence, from the early letters to his Texas friends, most notably Tevis Clyde Smith, and continuing through correspondence with fellow writers Clark Ashton Smith, E. Hoffmann Price, and others. Also included are Howard's letters to H.P. Lovecraft, which constitute one of the most intriguing correspondence cycles in the history of Fantasy fiction.

Publisher: ‎ Robert E. Howard Foundation Press

Hardcover, 530 pages, $39.99

Paperback, 530 pages, $24.99

New at Howard Works

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el guerrero
Featuring:   
"Red Nails"
"Jewels of Gwahlur"
"Beyond the Black River"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_guerrero-Editorial_Bruguera.html

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el pirata
Featuring:   
"Hawks Over Shem" 
"Black Colossus"
"Shadows in the Moonlight"
"The Road of the Eagles" 
"A Witch Shall Be Born"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_pirata-Editorial_Bruguera.html

Robert Derie
Cross Plains Pilgrimage
Featuring:   "Cimmeria" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/CrossPlainsPilgrimage-RobertDerie.html

Tom Munnerlyn
Austin Volume 3 Number 3 [Distributed in REHUPA #118] 
Featuring:   
"Le Gentil Homme le Diable"
"The Viking of the Sky" (poem)
Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Spring 1926, 
   "If you don't publish this . . ."
http://howardworks.com/AustinV3N3-REHupa118-TomMunnerlyn.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan #22
Featuring:   
"The Tower of the Elephant" (Part 3 of 3)
To H. P. Lovecraft, May 1935,
"The reason I haven’t answered . . ." (excerpt only)
http://howardworks.com/Conan22-DarkHorse.html

New at Howard Works

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan el aventurero
Featuring:  
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Slithering Shadow"
"Drums of Tombalku"
"The Pool of the Black One"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_el_aventurero-Editorial_Bruguera.html

Editorial Bruguera (Spanish)
Conan de Cimeria
Featuring:  
"The Bloodstained God" 
"The Frost Giant's Daughter"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
"The Snout in the Dark"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_de_Cimeria-Editorial_Bruguera.html

Adventure House (April 2022)
Pulp Facsimile: Oriental Stories V2N3 (Summer 1932)
Featuring:  
Letter to Oriental Stories, Summer 1932,
"Brundage did a fine job . . ."
http://howardworks.com/orientalstoriesV2N3-Sum1932-AdventureHouse.html

Tom Munnerlyn
Austin Volume 3 Number 2 [Distributed in REHUPA #117]
Featuring:  
"Twentieth Century Slave Trade"
"The Great Munney Ring"
"Bookmen and Books"
"Sisters"
"Sporting Page"
"Puritans"
"Vengeance of a Woman"
"Sordid Sayings of a Simple Sap"
"L’Envoi" (poem, "Live like a wolf then")
Untitled "Ho, merry bark" (poem)
Untitled Wrestling Article "Munn! Munn!"
"Le Gentil Homme le Diable"
"John L. Sullivan" (poem)
Untitled Boxing Article "On May 29"
Untitled note about Tevis Clyde Smith:
  "The Texas journalist . . ."
Untitled "And Bill, he looked at me" (poem)
"What Is Love?" (poem)
"Jack Dempsey" (poem)
"A Pirut Story"
"L’Envoi" (poem, "Harlots and choir girls")
Untitled "This is a young world" (poem)
Untitled "My name is San Culotte"
"My Sentiments, Set to Jazz" (poem)
Untitled Article "I progress slowly in my classification of
champions."
"Ringside Tales"
Untitled "Marks was a giant."
Untitled "Science will always beat brute strength."
Untitled Article "I like John L. Sullivan."
"L’Envoi" (poem, "Twilight striding o’er the mountain")
http://howardworks.com/AustinV3N2-REHupa117-TomMunnerlyn.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan #21
Featuring:  
"The Tower of the Elephant" (Part 2 of 3)
To H. P. Lovecraft, July 1934,
"I started writing this months ago . . ." (excerpt only)
http://howardworks.com/Conan21-DarkHorse.html