Monday, July 30, 2018

Marvel to Publish Dark Horse’s
Conan Comics in New Epic Collections

Continuing its celebration of the return of CONAN this January, Marvel is excited to announce the release of two volumes of CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: OUT OF THE DARK HILLS and THE HEART OF YAG-KOSHA!

Collecting Conan: The Legend 0 and Conan (2004) #1-19, CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: OUT OF THE DARKSOME HILLS presents tales from industry great Kurt Busiek and Eisner-winning Conan artist Cary Nord, including classic stories adapted from the epic works of original author Robert E. Howard. Relive all the legendary and glorious detail of Conan’s battle with the Vanir, his meeting with the Frost Giant’s daughter, and more! CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: OUT OF THE DARKSOME HILLS is VOL. 1 in the CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTIONS, collecting Conan’s various ongoing series from 2004-2017.

CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: THE HEART OF YAG-KOSHA presents the legend in more swashbuckling stories, including tales of Conan’s storied youth! Relive all his adventures in the City of Thieves and the Hall of the Dead, with more of Howard’s classic tales. CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: THE HEART OF YAG-KOSHA is VOL. 2 in the CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTIONS.

Next year, get ready to take on Conan’s early exploits and magic with the CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTIONS! And beginning later in 2019, the CONAN: HYBORIAN TALES EPIC COLLECTIONS will collect Conan’s various one-shots and miniseries from 2004-2016!


Sunday, July 29, 2018

New at Howard Works


Agenzia Libraria Editrice  (Italian)
Friuli Venezia Giulia. Scuola e Cultura Volume Quinto
Featuring:  "Delenda Est"
http://howardworks.com/Friuli_Venezia_Giulia_Scuola_e_Cultura_Volume_Quinto-Agenzia_Libraria_Editrice.html


Comic Art (Italian)
L'Eternauta 92
Featuring:  "Out of the Deep"
http://howardworks.com/LEternauta92-ComicArt.html


Lance Thingmaker
Marvel Tales
Featuring:  "The Garden of Fear"
http://howardworks.com/MarvelTales-Lance_Thingmaker.html



Marvel Comics
Chanber of Chills #3
Featuring: "The Thing on the Roof"
http://howardworks.com/ChamberofChills3-Marvel.html




Saturday, July 28, 2018

Conan TV Series News

Ryan Condal is preparing to adapt Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian for TV, and he shared some of the first details with SYFY WIRE when they caught up with him at Comic-Con.

According to Condal, the first episode of the Conan series will adapt “The Frost-Giant’s Daughter,” one of the primary tales in Howard’s canon for his signature character.

“I think the Conan purists will be very pleased,” said Howard, while setting the stage for Amazon's pilot episode. “If anybody knows and follows the saga [‘The Frost-Giant’s Daughter’] is... the earliest story in Conan’s life. He’s basically just left Cimmeria and he’s running around as a mercenary with this Viking band of warriors called the Aesir... I’ve put [the Conan stories] back in [chronological] order and the idea is to tell Conan’s story over the time of his life.”

Condal indicated that his take on Conan will stay true to the original’s spirit, while introducing a serial element as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KGIbgX4I1M

Sunday, July 22, 2018

By the Phoenix on This Sword I Rule! 
By Karen Joan Kohoutek

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.
https://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2018/07/by-phoenix-on-this-sword-i-rule-by.html




New at Howard Works

Area 51 Publishing (Italian)
Conan – La Fenice sulla Lama
Featuring:  "The Phoenix on the Sword"
http://howardworks.com/Conan-La_Fenice_sulla_Lama-Area51Publishing.html


Area 51 Publishing (Italian)
L'era Hyboriana. Il mondo di Conan il Barbaro
Featuring:  "The Hyborian Age"
http://howardworks.com/Lera_Hyboriana_Il_mondo_di_Conan_il_Barbaro-Area51Publishing.html


Marvel Comics
Chamber of Chills #2
Featuring:  "The Horror from the Mound"
http://howardworks.com/ChamberofChills2-Marvel.html


The REH Foundation Press
Pictures in the Fire
http://howardworks.com/PicturesintheFire-REHFoundationPress.html


Featuring:
"For the Love of Barbara Allen"
"Two Against Tyre"
"The Voice of El-Lil"
"Spear and Fang"
"Black Canaan" (Early Version)
"The Cobra in the Dream"
"The Ghost in the Doorway"
"A Thunder of Trumpets"
"The Shadow of Doom"
"The Haunted Hut"
"Under the Baobab Tree"
"The Hyena"
"Black Country"
"Nekht Semerkeht"
untitled story (As he approached the two, he swept off his feathered
hat . . .)
"The Abbey"
"Age Lasting Love" (with outline)
"The Devil's Woodchopper"
"The Door to the World"
"Redflame"
"Serpent Vines"
untitled synopsis (Black Canaan)
"The Isle of the Eons"
"The Brand of Satan"
"Dagon Manor"
"Dear Mrs. Shane"
"Fate is the Killer"
"Incongruity"
"The Jade God"
"The Slayer"
"Through the Ages"
"The Wings of the Bat"
untitled story ("You," said Shifty Griddle, pointing his   . . .)
untitled story (Better that a man should remain in kindly . . .)
untitled story (From the black, bandit-haunted mountains . . .)
untitled story (I'm writing this with a piece of pencil on the  . . .)
untitled story (Old Man Jacobson crunched his powerful teeth . . .)
untitled story (The matter seemed so obvious that my onlyr . . .)
untitled story (The next day I was sluggish and inefficient . . .)
"Songs of Bastards"
"Bastards All!"
"Pictures in the Fire"
"The Dominant Male"
"Miss High-Hat"
"Etched in Ebony"
untitled story ("Arrange, Madame, arrange!")
"Letter of a Chinese Student" (1)
"Letter of a Chinese Student" (2)
"For the Honor of the School"
"A Rattlesnake Sings In the Grass" (poem)
"The Masque" (poem)
"A High Land" (poem)
"Whence Cometh Erlik?" (poem)
"Lost Nisapur" (poem)
"Abhorrent Gods" (poem)
"A Song of Praise" (poem)
"The Tale of Glory" (poem)
"The Race Without Name" (poem)
"Let Me Dream by a Silver Stream"  (poem)
"My Animal Instinct" (poem)
"The Wind Blows" (1, poem)
"The Wind Blows" (2, poem)




Friday, July 20, 2018

Essays on Robert E. Howard & Others
Coming soon from Hippocampus Press!

Bobby Deerie has announced that his book, Essays on Robert E. Howard & Others, will be published by Hippocampus Press. No release date has been announced.

An ashcan edition was given away to attendees at the 2018 Howard Days.

http://howardworks.com/EssaysonRobertEHoward-RobertDerie.html


Sunday, July 15, 2018

Hot (and a little bothered) Off The Press 
by Gary Romeo

A Critique of Patrice Louinet’s The Robert E. Howard Guide

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.
https://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2018/06/hot-and-little-bothered-off-press-by.html