Howard Days 2023

April 28 & 29

After considerable discussion, polling and debate, Project Pride of Cross Plains and The Robert E. Howard Foundation are pleased to announce the dates for Robert E. Howard Days 2023: April 28 & 29.
The main reason for the date change from June is due to the furnace-like temperatures that attendees have endured for the last two Howard Days. Moving the event to late April will provide everyone with a more inviting environment and make the outdoor activities more pleasant.

The theme of Howard Days 2023 will be "100 Years of Weird Tales" in celebration of the century birthday of The Unique Magazine. Not only was Weird Tales Bob Howard's first and foremost market, it provided us with a plethora of famous writers, like H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and many others. We will celebrate Howard's impact in the pages of WT, of course, along with Weird Tales' pioneering of several literary genres.

The Guest of Honor at Howard Days 2023 is To Be Announced. He or she will headline all the regular events that happen at Howard Days; plus there's always room for surprises and continued Howard Fellowship.

We hope you can make plans to join us! Check back here soon for all the updates. Y'all come!

Howard Days

New at Howard Works

Géminis (Spanish)
Narraciones Géminis de Terror No. 6. 
    La cosa sin rostro y otros relatos
Featuring:  "Out of the Deep"
http://howardworks.com/Narraciones_Gemini_de_Terror6-Geminis.html

Géminis (Spanish)
Narraciones Géminis de Terror No. 9. El habitante maldito
Featuring:  "The Vale of Lost Women"
http://howardworks.com/Narraciones_Gemini_de_Terror9-Geminis.html

The Robert E. Howard Foundation
Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter V16N2
Featuring:
"The Vultures of Wahpeton"  (Part 2 of 3)
"Adventure" (1) (poem)  
To H.P. Lovecraft, December 9, 1931, "I would have answered . . ."
"Arkham"  (poem)
http://howardworks.com/rehfoundationsnewsletterV16N2.html

Roehm's Room Press
Robert E. Howard in THE FANTASY FAN [Distributed in REHUPA #200]
Featuring:
"Gods of the North"
Letters to THE FANTASY FAN
Letters to Charles D. Hornig
"Babel"  (poem)
"The Voices Waken Memory"  (poem)
http://howardworks.com/REH_in_the_FantasyFan-REHupa200-RoehmsRoomPress.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan the Cimmerian #8
Featuring:  "Black Colossus"  (Part 1 of 6, graphic adaptation)
http://howardworks.com/conanthecimmerian8-darkhorse.html

Upcoming REH related publications.

Target ship dates as of September 1, 2022
All dates are subject to change.

Date Format: MM/DD/YYYY

Available since last update (08/01/2021)
BÊLIT & VALERIA: SWORDS VS. SORCERY #4 (Ablaze)
KING CONAN TPB (Marvel)
CONAN THE KING: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 1  (Marvel)
KING CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION:PHANTOMS AND PHOENIXES TPB (Marvel)

In your future

09/28/2022
BÊLIT & VALERIA: SWORDS VS. SORCERY #5 (Ablaze)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 8  (Marvel)
CONAN EPIC COLLECTION:THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS — 

     VENGEANCE IN ASGALUN TPB
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 8 (Marvel)

10/5/2022
CONAN ILLUSTRÉ : LA TOUR DE L'ELÉPHANT (Bragelonne)

10/18/2022
CONAN: BLOOD OF THE SERPENT by S. M. Stirling  (Titan)

10/26/2022
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 9 (Marvel)

11/23/2022
THE CIMMERIAN HC VOLUME 04 (Ablaze)

12/14/2022
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 10 (Marvel)

2023
ROBERT E. HOWARD ART CHRONOLOGY (Chenault & Gray)

05/2023
New CONAN comic series(Titan)

08/2023
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILM

To Be Announced
CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAGUE (Titan)
THE ROBERT E. HOWARD COLLECTOR VOLUME TWO (Old Tiger Press)

New at Howard Works

Equipo Sirius (Spanish)
Galaxia No. 6
Featuring:  "Rattle of Bones"
http://howardworks.com/Galaxia6-Equipo_Sirius.html

Francisco Arellano (Spanish)
Marginalia Addendum 1
Featuring:  
To Wilfred Blanch Talman, ca. September 1931,
"Thank you very much for the letter you wrote . . ."
http://howardworks.com/Marginalia_Addendum1-Francisco_Arellano.html

Thanks to Roman Tilcer and Eduard Štepar for the TOC scans!

Argo (Czech)
Dobrodruh Conan
Featuring:
"The Servants of Bit-Yakin"
"Beyond the Black River"
"The Black Stranger"
"The Man-Eaters of Zamboula"
"Red Nails"
untitled notes (The Westermarck: located between . . .)
"Wolves Beyond the Border" (Draft A)
"Wolves Beyond the Border" (Draft B)
"The Black Stranger" (Synopsis A)
"The Black Stranger" (Synopsis B)
"The Man-Eaters of Zamboula" (Synopsis)
"Red Nails" (Draft)
Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, March 10, 1936
"I feel indeed honored that you and Dr. Clark . . ."
http://howardworks.com/Dobrodruh_Conan-Argo.html

Gibbelins Gazette Publications
Weird Tales in the Thirties, Part 2 [Distributed in REHUPA #84/85]
Featuring:
"Black Chant Imperial" (poem, lines 1-4)
"Worms of the Earth" (excerpt only)
http://howardworks.com/WeirdTalesintheThirtiesPart2-REHupa84-85-Gibbelins_Gazette_Publications.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan #50
Featuring:
"The Hand of Nergal"  (Part 4 of 4)
"The Hand of Nergal"
To H.P. Lovecraft, November 2, 1932,
"I want to begin this letter by an apology."  (brief excerpt)
http://howardworks.com/Conan50-DarkHorse.html

KING CONAN TPB

Now available!

Written by Jason Aaron
Art by Mahmud Asrar
Cover by Mahmud Asrar

An old and terrible danger threatens to end King Conan's saga once and for all! Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar return to the saga of Conan — and together they take the Cimmerian futher than has ever been revealed in any media to date! As Robert E. Howard posited, when King Conan of Aquilonia grows restless on the throne, he sails west, toward land and adventure unknown. Now, see the first step of that fateful journey! 

When an unholy alliance is forged and fallen warriors rise to fight again, will Conan finally be forced to succumb to the lure of cursed sorcery? And what of his son, Prince Conn, and the kingdom of Aquilonia left behind? Prepare for the adventure of a lifetime, the end of an era and the final stand against Thoth-Amon! 

Collecting KING CONAN (2021) #1-6.

Trade paperback, Full Color, 144 pages, $17.99.

Conan - Blood of the Serpent

The All-New Chronicles of the World’s Greatest Barbarian Hero

By S. M. Stirling

Conan the Barbarian, the world’s most famous fantasy hero, returns in an all-new novel tied directly to the famous works by his legendary creator, Robert E. Howard.

Mercenary, thief, soldier, usurper, Conan has faced conquering armies, wicked sorcerers, and monstrous creatures, wielding a savage sword that cuts a bloody swath across the Hyborian Age. In this all-new novel tying directly into Howard’s definitive canon, Conan is a paid mercenary in a remote Stygian town. There he meets Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, a brilliant swordswoman whose skills lead him to recruit her to the mercenary group. Her take-no-prisoners approach runs afoul of the corrupt politics, and a price lands on Valeria’s head. Seeking to survive, she and Conan become entangled in the vengeful schemes of a priest of Set, the serpent god.

A superstar of novels, short fiction, comics, video games, films, and an upcoming Netflix series, his adventures have inspired many of the most popular authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. This is the first in a series of brand-new, officially licensed standalone adventures, with spot illustrations throughout and a bonus: the original “Red Nails” short story by Robert E. Howard himself.

Hardcover

Available October 18, 2022.

Titan Books

New at Howard Works

Equipo Sirius (Spanish)
Galaxia No. 4
Featuring:  "Red Nails" (Part 4 of 5)
http://howardworks.com/Galaxia4-Equipo_Sirius.html

Equipo Sirius (Spanish)
Galaxia No. 5
Featuring:  "Red Nails" (Part 5 of 5)
http://howardworks.com/Galaxia5-Equipo_Sirius.html

Shinkigensha (Japanese)
The Complete Conan Collectors Edition 1: The Caller of Storms
Featuring:  
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"The God in the Bowl"
"Rogues in the House"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
"Black Colossus"
"Shadows in the Moonlight"
"A Witch Shall be Born"
"The Hall of the Dead" (Synopsis)
"The Hand of Nergal" (Fragment)
"The Snout in the Dark" (Synopsis)
"The Snout in the Dark" (Draft)
Letter to P. Schuyler Miller, SM, March 10, 1936,
"I feel indeed honored that you and Dr. Clark . . ."
"The Hyborian Age"
http://howardworks.com/Complete_Conan_Collectors_Edition1-The_Caller_of_Storms-Shinkigensha.html

Bill Cavalier
The Golden Caliph  [Distributed in REHUPA #104]
Featuring:  "The Tempter" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/GoldenCaliph-REHupa104-BillCavalier.html

Dark Horse Comics
Conan #49
Featuring:
"The Hand of Nergal"  (Part 3 of 4)
To H.P. Lovecraft, May 24, 1932,
"Glad you liked the Oriental story . . ." (brief excerpt)
http://howardworks.com/Conan49-DarkHorse.html