Thursday, February 16, 2017

AR-I-E’CH AND THE SPELL OF CTHULHU: 
AN INFORMAL GUIDE TO R.E. HOWARD'S LOVECRAFTIAN FICTION 
by Fred Blosser 
Now available!

AR-I-E’CH AND THE SPELL OF CTHULHU: AN INFORMAL GUIDE TO R.E. HOWARD’S LOVECRAFTIAN FICTION provides a new reference to Robert E. Howard's classic tales of the Cthulhu Mythos and related horror fantasies inspired by the chilling cosmic vision of H.P. Lovecraft. Included are an introductory overview of Howard, Lovecraft, and the Mythos; summaries and discussions of the stories; a short essay on the associations between the Cthulhu Mythos and Howard's most celebrated heroic-fantasy character; a catalog of Howard's signature additions to the Mythos (persons, places, sinister books, and gods); and a selected reading list. Fred Blosser is a veteran commentator on the fiction of Robert E. Howard, published in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR, THE DARK MAN, AMRA, and Marvel Comics magazines based on Howard's characters. He has also published in CINEMA RETRO, THE DARK SIDE, THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE, MYSTERY SCENE, and other magazines about the fantasy, horror, and detective genres.

File Size: 3045 KB
Print Length: 91 pages
Publisher: Black Stone Press
ASIN: B06VTDRT1R
Kindle price: $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/AR-I-ECH-SPELL-CTHULHU-INFORMAL-LOVECRAFTIAN-ebook/dp/B06VTDRT1R


Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Chicken Fried Cthulhu: A Skelos Press Anthology
New Kickstarter project featuring REH!

A dark and irreverent anthology of Lovecraftian fiction set in Texas and the Southwest.

It’s time to shine a light into the dark corners of the Southwest; places like Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexio, where the land is impossibly old, and civilization is new and precarious. The ground in these parts is soaked with blood, with oil, with sweat. There are no tears. They shoot you for wasting water around here.

Chicken Fried Cthulhu pays tribute to the authors who first carved out a place for themselves in the vast, open countryside, and paved the way for new authors to leave their indelible mark on Mythos fiction. But like the outlaws and outsiders who settled in the southwest, they prefer to do it their way: bloody, bawdy, and belligerent.  Lovecraftian fiction done the only way we know how to do it: chicken fried!

Chicken Fried Cthulhu is a collection of new and reprint stories set in and around the southwest by southwestern writers. Included in this sensational line-up: Zelia Bishop, Christopher Brown, Walter DeBill, Jr., Bradley Denton, Robert E. Howard, Joe Lansdale, Caroline Specter and Don Webb for starters. More authors will be announced during and after the Kickstarter is concluded. Thirteen authors (and more, with your help) with a unique, one-of-a-kind take on the Cthulhu Mythos that is unmistakably Weird. And we're going to debut the book at this year's World Fantasy Convention in San Antonio, Texas!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1376036639/chicken-fried-cthulhu-a-skelos-press-anthology

Sunday, February 12, 2017

New at Howard Works

Bard  (Bulgarian)
Konan Uzurpatorat
Featuring:
"The Treasure of Tranicos"
"Wolves Beyond the Border"
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
http://howardworks.com/Konan_Uzurpatorat-Bard.html


Bard  (Bulgarian)
Konan Zavoevatelya
Featuring: "Conan the Conqueror"
http://howardworks.com/Konan_Zavoevatelya-Bard.html




Sunday, February 5, 2017

New at Howard Works

Unknown Publisher (Hungarian)
Elanor #1
Featuring:  "The Right Hand of Doom"
http://howardworks.com/Elanor1.html


Bard (Bulgarian)
Konan Avanturista
Featuring:
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Slithering Shadow"
"Drums of Tombalku"
"The Pool of the Black One"
http://howardworks.com/Konan_Avanturista-Bard.html









Saturday, February 4, 2017

Howard Days 2017 Guest of Honor is Paul Herman

The unofficial "theme" for Howard Days 2017 is The Howard Detectives, so we are happy to announce that Paul Herman is this year's Guest of Honor.

There is little doubt that Paul is the King of the Howard Detectives today. His exhaustive and dedicated work with the Glenn Lord papers (Glenn, of course, was the Original Howard Detective) has brought Paul to the forefront of hard core Howard Fandom. Paul's bio below explains quite a lot as to why he's the 2017 Guest of Honor.

For more, check out the link below!

New post at the Howard Days blog.
http://www.howarddays.com/2017/02/howard-days-2017-guest-of-honor-is-paul.html



Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Upcoming REH related publications.
Estimated ship dates as of 02/01/2017
All dates are subject to change.

01/25/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER #6 (Dark Horse Comics) - Now available!

02/22/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER #7 (Dark Horse)

03/15/2017
THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 34: BETRAYAL IN ZAMORA AND OTHER STORIES TPB (Dark Horse)

03/29/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER #8 (Dark Horse)

04/19/2017
CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 2: CITY OF THIEVES TPB (Dark Horse)

04/26/2017
CONAN THE SLAYER #9 (Dark Horse)
CONAN THE SLAYER VOLUME 1 TPB (Dark Horse)

Dates to be announced
THE ADVENTURES OF BRECKINRIDGE ELKINS VOLUME 2 (Robert E. Howard Foundation Press)

Sunday, January 29, 2017

New at Howard Works

Delta Vision Kft. (Hungarian)
Fekete Turlogh és a kelták
http://howardworks.com/Fekete_Turlogh_es_a_keltak-DeltaVision.html

Featuring:
"Song Before Clontarf" (poem)
"Dermod's Bane"
"The Cairn on the Headland"
Letter to Harry Bates, 1 June 1931, "You may, or you may not . . ."
"The Grey God Passes"
"Marching Song of Connacht" (poem)
untitled story (The Dane came in with a rush, hurtling his huge body
forward . . .)
"The Dark Man"
"The Gods of Bal-Sagoth"
"The Shadow of the Hun"
"Reuben's Brethren" (poem)
"The Sowers of the Thunder"
untitled story (He knew De Bracy, they having fought against the
Saracens . . .)
"Lord of Samarcand"
"Timur-Lang" (poem)


Delta Vision Kft. (Hungarian)
Cormac Mac Art és a vikingek
http://howardworks.com/Cormac_Mac_Art_es_a_vikingek-DeltaVision.html

Featuring:
"Shadows on the Road" (poem)
"Delenda Est"
untitled fragment (Men have had visions ere now. . .)
"The King's Service"
"Red Thunder" (poem)
"The Night of the Wolf"
"Tigers of the Sea"
"Swords of the Northern Sea"
"The Temple of Abomination"
"The Harp of Alfred" (poem)
"The Garden of Fear"
"Black Eons"
"Black Chant Imperial" (poem)