Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Skelos Press
The Robert E. Howard Guide by Patrice Louinet

Debuting in two weeks at Howard Days - The Robert E. Howard Guide by Patrice Louinet from Skelos Press!

Regular trade edition and (while they last) signed numbered limited edition.
Preorder info coming soon.

Thanks to Jeffrey Shanks for the info!



THE COLOSSAL CONAN THE CIMMERIAN HC 
Coming in October!

Timothy Truman (Writer), Tomas Giorello (Art/Cover), Richard Corben (Art), Joe Kubert (Art), Joseph Michael Linsner (Art), Paul Lee (Art), and Jose Villarrubia (Color)

Conan returns to his homeland to explore his roots and find renewed purpose as a young mercenary. This complete collection of Dark Horse's Conan the Cimmerian run gathers issues #0 to #25 of that celebrated series together, including all variant cover work! The award-winning creative team of Truman, Giorello, and Villarrubia adapt several of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories and tell new tales that tie everything together chronologically.

648 pages, $99.99, in stores on October 17.

Dark Horse Comics



Tuesday, May 22, 2018


Ar-I-E'ch and the Spell of Cthulhu: 
An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard's Lovecraftian Fiction
by Fred Blosser 
Now available!

What Lurks in Realms Beyond
Robert E. Howard's correspondence with H.P. Lovecraft inspired the two-fisted creator of Conan the Barbarian to pit his square-jawed modern heroes against cosmic horrors, colossal beasts, and cannibalistic children of the night, in a short-lived effort to open new markets for his fiction.

In this book, the first in the "Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard" series, Howard scholar Fred Blosser analyzes each of REH's Cthulhu Mythos stories, unpacking their plots, their themes, and their unexpected linkages to Howard's other works.

Along with his stories set in the Cthulhu Mythos, REH also wrote tales inspired by Lovecraftian themes, but not part of the Mythos itself. Blosser looks at each of these stories as well.

Though Howard couldn't match Lovecraft's dreamy, sinuous prose, nor did he much care for the timid Lovecraftian "hero", his small canon of Cthulhu fiction expanded the Mythos and gave us men (and sometimes women) not afraid to challenge the cosmic terrors that threatened their sanity and their souls.

With Blosser as your guide, you'll shake loose from Conan and experience an important but often overlooked facet of Robert E. Howard's storytelling genius.

The book includes a selected reading list, a study of elder horrors in the Kull stories, and an examination of a trio of tales that REH set in a most unlikely locale (for him): the haunted seaport.

Paperback: 124 pages
Publisher: Pulp Hero Press
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 8.5 inches
$14.95

Available on Amazon


Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengeance: 
An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard's American Horrors
By Fred Blosser
Now available!

What Stalks the American West...
Before he invented the Hyborian Age and Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard populated the arid plains of his native Texas and the fetid swamps of nearly Lousiana with cultists, demons, dark gods, and unspeakable things from the dawn of time and from fever-haunted realms of lunacy.

In this book, the second in the "Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard" series, Howard scholar Fred Blosser analyzes each of REH's regional stories, unpacking their plots, their themes, and their unexpected linkages to Howard's other works.

Despite its quality, Howard's regional fiction is relatively unknown today. Instead of lusty barbarians, the heroes in these tales are two-fisted rural everymen caught up in infernal schemes beyond their ken. With six-shooter in place of sword, they meet toe-to-toe the depraved horrors and gibbering monstrosities that gather in remote cabins, dismal plantations, and small, secret-ridden towns.

With Blosser as your guide, you'll shake loose from Conan and experience an important but often overlooked facet of Robert E. Howard's storytelling genius.

The book includes a selected reading list and a lengthy discussion of Roy Thomas' adaptation of REH's better regional fiction into sword-and-sorcery tales for Marvel's Conan the Barbarian comic book.

Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: Pulp Hero Press
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
$14.95

Available on Amazon


Sunday, May 20, 2018


Dear Mr. Jacobi; Cordially, Robert E. Howard 
by Bobby Derie

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.
https://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2018/05/dear-mr-jacobi-cordially-robert-e.html



New at Howard Works

Rea  (Polish)
Conan barbarzynca (2012 & 2015 editions)
Featuring:
"The Hyborian Age"
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
"The Scarlet Citadel"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"Black Colossus"
"The Slithering Shadow"
"The Pool of the Black One"
"Rogues in the House"
"Shadows in the Moonlight"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The People of the Black Circle"
"A Witch Shall Be Born"
"Jewels of Gwahlur"
"Beyond the Black River"
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"Red Nails"
"The Hour of the Dragon"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_barbarzynca-Rea.html




Fabryka Slów (Polish)
Wielka ksiega fantasy
Featuring:  "The Valley of the Worm"
http://howardworks.com/Wielka_ksiega_fantasy-Fabryka_Slow.html


Glénat (French)
Conan le Cimmérien: La reine de la côte noire
Featuring: "Queen of the Black Coast"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_le_Cimmerien-La_reine_de_la_cote_noire-Glenat.html


Murania Press
Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents #4: Pulpourri
Featuring: "Black Talons"
http://howardworks.com/BloodnThunderPresents4-Pulpourri-MuraniaPress.html



Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Pictures in the Fire

The next offering from the REH Foundation Press is PICTURES IN THE FIRE.
The cover art is by Howard Days 2018 Guest of Honor Bill Cavalier.

This should be available in early June.

Thanks to Rob Roehm for the info.