New at Howard Works

Wydawnictwo Amber (Polish)
Conan msciciel
Featuring: "The Hyborian Age" (Part 2)
http://howardworks.com/Conan_msciciel-Wydawnictwo_Amber.html

Wydawnictwo Amber (Polish)
Conan i skarb Tranicosa
Featuring: "The Treasure of Tranicos"
http://howardworks.com/Conan_i_skarb_Tranicosa-Wydawnictwo_Amber.html

Sir Angels
The Phoenix on the Sword
Featuring: "The Phoenix on the Sword"
http://howardworks.com/ThePhoenixontheSword-SirAngels.html

The Cross Plains Review
The Cross Plains Review Volume 28 Number 9
Featuring: "The Tempter" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/CrossPlainsReviewV28N9-1937-06-18.html

Thanks to Patrice Louinet for the scan of "The Tempter"

CONAN THE CIMMERIAN BARBARIAN
Now available!

The timeless adventures of one of literature’s greatest fictional heroes ...

Robert E. Howard's epic stories of the famous Cimmerian hero Conan and his adventures saving princesses and fighting monsters and evil wizards.

Features all the Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian stories as they originally appeared in The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus. 

With its premium blue leather binding, a "hubbed" spine accented with true 22kt gold, and gilded page ends, this luxurious volume is the state-of-the-art in fine bookmaking.

6 3/4” x 9 3/4”, 664 pages

Features:
- Bound in genuine leather.
- Accented in 22kt gold.
- Gilded page ends.
- Moiré endsheets.
- Satin ribbon page marker.
- Pages that are Smyth-sewn into the binding.
- Bound in the USA.

Standard shipping included at no additional charge.

Printed on archival quality, acid-neutral paper specially milled for this edition that conforms to all guidelines established for permanence and durability by the Council of Library Resources and the American National Standards Institute.

4 Monthly Installments of $45

Easton Press

 

Stephen Fabian and Robert E. Howard: Part Two
By Deuce Richardson

New post at the DMR Books blog.
https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2018/1/22/stephen-fabian-and-robert-e-howard-part-two

Robert E. Howard at 112
By Al Harron

New post at The Blog That Time Forgot.
http://theblogthattimeforgot.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/robert-e-howard-at-112.html

Happy Birthday to  Robert E. Howard!

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Among the hundreds of pulps that will be in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) are 18 issues of Fiction House's Action Stories. Most of them feature stories by Robert. E. Howard, including these two. The one on the left is December 1935 and on the right is January 1937.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

New at Howard Works

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Zemsta Czarnego Vulmei
Featuring:
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood"
"Black Vulmea's Vengeance"
"The Isle of Pirate's Doom"
http://howardworks.com/Zemsta_Czarnego_Vulmei-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html

Wydawnictwo Atlantis (Polish)
Conan
Featuring:
"Shadows in the Moonlight" 
"Shadows in Zamboula" 
"Black Colossus" 
"The Vale of Lost Women" 
"The Phoenix on the Sword" 
"The Bloodstained God" 
"The Hand of Nergal" 
"Jewels of Gwahlur" 
"The Devil in Iron" 
"The Hall of the Dead" 
"The Pool of the Black One"
"The God in the Bowl" 
http://howardworks.com/Conan-Wydawnictwo_Atlantis.html

Sir Angels
Jewels of Gwahlur
Featuring: "Jewels of Gwahlur"
http://howardworks.com/JewelsofGwahlur-SirAngels.html

Sir Angels
The People of the Black Circle
Featuring: "The People of the Black Circle"
http://howardworks.com/ThePeopleoftheBlackCircle-SirAngels.html

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Among the hundreds of pulps that will be in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) are 20 issues of Fiction House's Fight Stories. Most of them feature stories by Robert. E. Howard, including these two, as is noted on the covers. The one on the left is June 1930 and on the right is December 1931.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Among the over 80 issues of Weird Tales (most featuring stories or poems by Robert E. Howard, and many with work from H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith) that will be in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) are these two. The one on the left is the July 1925 issue, featuring Robert E. Howard's first story for that pulp -- "Spear and Fang," And as the cover for the issue on the right (dated April 1926) proclaims, Howard's story "Wolfshead" is in that one.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Stephen Fabian and Robert E. Howard: Part One
By Deuce Richardson

New post at the DMR Books blog.
https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2018/1/2/stephen-fabian-and-robert-e-howard-part-one

Nosferatu Necronomica – 
Solomon Kane in the Hills of the Dead
By Matthew Knight

New post at the DMR Books blog.
https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2017/12/29/nosferatu-necronomica-solomon-kane-in-the-hills-of-the-dead

Fan Mail: Bloch vs. Conan 
by Bobby Derie

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.
https://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2018/01/fan-mail-bloch-vs-conan-by-bobby-derie.html

Glénat to Publish Conan Comics in Europe

One of the largest French publishers, Glénat, will be adapting twelve (12) Robert E. Howard Conan stories into graphic novels. 

Each adaptation will be from a different creative team.
There won’t be any kind of "standard" look for Conan’s appearance.
Each creative team will have the freedom to draw the Cimmerian their own way.

The first graphic novel, LE COLOSSE NOIR, will be published in May 2018.
It will adapt "Black Colossus."
The creative team is Vincent Brugeas, Kellee Riley, and Toulhoat.

Full story at the Bleeding Cool website.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/01/17/glenat-conan-comics-public-domain-europe/

The SFFaudio Podcast #456 
AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: 
The Vale Of Lost Women by Robert E. Howard


Mark Finn discusses Robert E. Howard.
http://www.sffaudio.com/the-sffaudio-podcast-456-audiobookreadalong-the-vale-of-lost-women-by-robert-e-howard/

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Over 80 issues of Weird Tales (most featuring stories or poems by Robert E. Howard, and many with material by H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith) will be in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center). Here's one of them -- the December 1932 issue, featuring a great J. Allen St. John cover for Otis Adelbert Kline's "Buccaneers of Venus." Of course, the issue is of particular interest to REH fans, as it also features his "Phoenix on the Sword," the first published adventure of Conan.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

New at Howard Works

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Conan. Zakazane miasto Gothan
Featuring:  "Pistol Politics"
http://howardworks.com/Zakazane_miasto_Gothan-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Nie kopcie mi grobu
Featuring:
"Drums of the Sunset" 
"The Man on the Ground" 
"The Children of the Night" 
"The Valley of the Lost" (2) 
"The Hyena" 
"Spanish Gold on Devil Horse"
"Dig Me No Grave"
"Old Garfield's Heart"
"The Dead Remember" 
"In the Forest of Villefere" 
"The Dream Snake"
http://howardworks.com/Nie_kopcie_mi_grobu-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html

Sir Angels
The Hour of the Dragon
Featuring:  "The Hour of the Dragon"
http://howardworks.com/TheHouroftheDragon-SirAngels.html

Sir Angels
The Hyborian Age
Featuring:  "The Hyborian Age"
http://howardworks.com/TheHyborianAge-SirAngels.html

Conan is returning to Marvel Comics

Marvel and Conan Properties International announced that Conan is returning to Marvel Comics, his original comic book home.

The Robert E. Howard creation first debut with Marvel in 1970 and ran for 275 issues until 1993, along with a handful of miniseries and 235 issues of Savage Sword of Conan magazine. 650 issues total form 1970 to 2000. The character moved over to Dark Horse comics in 2003, where he’s been published continuously until the most recent series, Conan the Slayer, ended last year.

The new Marvel Conan series is expected to debut in early 2019.

Fan Mail: Prohibition in “The Souk” 
by Bobby Derie

New post at the On An Underwood No. 5 blog.
https://onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2018/01/fan-mail-prohibition-in-souk-by-bobby.html

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Here's one of the unique items that will be in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center).

Back in 1968, Donald M. Grant published his third collection of stories by Robert E. Howard, following "A Gent From Bear Creek" and "The Pride of Bear Creek." Entitled "Red Shadows," it printed Howard's stories of Solomon Kane. For this project, Grant enlisted the talents of artist Jeff Jones, who painted the art for the cover as well as three interior plates (a fourth plate reprinted the cover art).

In the auction is this item, which I think is an uncut proof sheet of the dust jacket and the interior plates. It would look great framed and on the wall!

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #5 (of 6) 
Arriving in comic shops January 17!

(Writer) Gail Simone (Art) Aaron Lopresti, Matt Ryan
(Covers) Darick Robertson and Neal Adams

The road to Shamar is long -- and thralls of the Corvidae threaten every step.
But Conan will persevere in Diana's quest to protect the town...though he might be equally interested in revenge against the slaver who sold them into peril on the high seas!

Co-published by DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

New at Howard Works

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Wedrowcy z Valhalli
Featuring:
"The Thunder-Rider"
"Marchers of Valhalla"
"The Grey God Passes"
http://howardworks.com/Wedrowcy_z_Valhalli-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Kull  
Featuring:
"The Skull of Silence"
"Delcardes' Cat"
"The Shadow Kingdom"
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom"
"The Altar and the Scorpion"
"By This Axe I Rule!"
"Exile of Atlantis"
"The Striking of the Gong"
http://howardworks.com/Kull-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html

Sir Angels
Black Colossus
Featuring:  "Black Colossus"
http://howardworks.com/BlackColossus-SirAngels.html

Sir Angels
The Devil in Iron
Featuring:  "The Devil in Iron"
http://howardworks.com/TheDevilinIron-SirAngels.html

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Besides pulps, the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) contains a number of rare fanzines.

Among them are several issues of The Phantagraph from the mid-1930's, which for much of its run was edited by Don Wollheim. The three issues, and one supplement, that I'll post here are among them. Many pros contributed to these, most notably H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. The issues in the auction contain two installments of Howard's "The Hyborian Age."

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Among the rare pulps in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center) are these four.

Nickel Detective (which was a title change from Popular Fiction Magazine, which in turn was a title change from Man Stories), ran for six issues from January to August 1933, before changing title to Strange Detective Stories. Under that latter title, it lasted four issues, from November 1933 to February 1934. The auction will include the August 1933 issue of Nickel Detective, as well as the November 1933, December 1933 and February 1934 issues of Strange Detective Stories. The last two of those feature stories by Conan author Robert E. Howard.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
Glenn Lord estate auction 

From Doug Ellis:

Among the pulps in the Glenn Lord estate auction being held on Friday night, April 6, 2018, at the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center), are nearly 100 issues of Weird Tales. Most issues feature the works of Robert E. Howard (for whom Lord was the literary executor for nearly three decades), including the December 1932 issue, featuring the first Conan story.

Also among these issues are two copies of the November 1935 issue, featuring the Conan story, "Shadows in Zamboula," both of which are shown here. The image on the left is the U.S. edition, while the image on the right -- which is heavily censored by a text block! -- is the Canadian edition.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Conan: The Scarlet Citadel

New post at the Castalia House blog.
http://www.castaliahouse.com/conan-scarlet-citadel/

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Auction
REH material from the estate of Glenn Lord will be included.

With the advent of 2018, the upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is now just three months away (April 6-8, 2018, at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center). As those who’ve attended past conventions know, we’ve had some dynamite Friday night auctions, and this year’s Friday night auction (held the evening of April 6) will be no exception.

We’re honored to announce that this year’s Friday night auction will draw on material from the estate of Glenn Lord. As literary executor of the Robert E. Howard estate for nearly three decades, Lord was instrumental in popularizing the works of Howard, and in making reams of previously unpublished Howard material available. It would be difficult to overstate his contributions to Howard’s legacy. Not surprisingly, his own pulp collection was centered around Howard, but also contained many other titles as well. If you’re a fan of pulps – and particularly if you’re a fan of the man who brought us Conan and so many other memorable characters – you won’t want to miss it!

We’ll be posting more details over the coming weeks concerning the pulps, fanzines and other rare material that will be in the auction. For now, we’ll just post the one piece of original art that will be in the auction – Frank Utpatel’s original cover art for the second Robert E. Howard Arkham House collection, “The Dark Man and Others”. The art was a little too large for my scanner, so these images are very slightly cropped, but we’ll post full sized shots later. We’re showing it in two images. The image on the left is Utpatel’s original art, on illustration paper. The image on the right is scanned with the overlay (which contains some image and text) on top of the art.

Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Robert E. Howard Days 2018 
June 8th and 9th!

The following information is from the Howard Days website.

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A New Year brings us a new Howard Days!

The 2018 version of Robert E. Howard Days takes place on Friday and Saturday, June 8th and 9th, at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas. Once again, fans from all over the world will gather to celebrate the life and legacy of the incomparable Robert E. Howard!

Project Pride of Cross Plains, along with the Robert E. Howard Foundation and REHupa, the Robert E. Howard United Press Association will be your sponsors and hosts once again. This year, we will celebrate members of all three of these organizations, along with the hundreds of REH fans from all over the U.S. and the world with our Howard Days theme of CELEBRATING REH FANS. Our Guest of Honor for 2018 is one of the mainstays of Howard Fandom, "Indiana Bill" Cavalier.

Again this year, Howard Days attendees will enjoy the fellowship and camaraderie felt by REH fans from all over the world! The Robert E. Howard Museum and adjoining Alla Ray Morris Pavilion are the gathering points and will be open to all (at absolutely no cost)! All of our regular activities will be in place: Tours of the REH Museum and grounds are ongoing; a Bus Tour of Cross Plains and environs takes place Friday morning; a Hot Dog Lunch, the Celebration Banquet and a honest to Texas Barbeque feast will keep you fed; numerous panels, seminars and demonstrations will feed your fannish and intellectual curiosities; you can marvel at Original Howard Manuscripts on display at the Cross Plains Public Library, you can acquire REH books, comics, magazines, t-shirts, hats and souvenirs in the Museum Gift Shop; the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press will be set up to sell true text Howard books; there will be a special REH Days postal cancellation stamp at the Cross Plains Post Office; and, we will have a small Dealers Area adjacent to the Pavilion this year. Plus, we promise to have a surprise or two to make things interesting!

We are in the process of getting our panels. scheduling & registration and logistics lined up to give you another great experience at Howard Days, so please stay tuned to this page as well as our Howard Days and REH Foundation Facebook pages.

It's never too early to start planning to join in all the fun and fellowship that Howard Days can provide for you, as we Celebrate the Fans of Robert E. Howard! Y'all come!

And we promise that Cross Plains will be thawed out come June!
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Stay tuned to the Howard Days website for the latest information.
http://www.howarddays.com/

Upcoming REH related publications.
Estimated ship dates as of 01/01/2018
All dates are subject to change.

Available since last update
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #4(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

In your future
01/17/2017
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #5(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

01/31/2018
KULL ETERNAL #3 (IDW)

02/21/2017
WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #6(OF 6) (DC/Dark Horse)

03/07/2018
KULL ETERNAL TPB (likely to be delayed)

05/09/2018
CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 4 TPB (Dark Horse)

Date to be announced
KULL ETERNAL #4 (IDW)
KULL ETERNAL #5 (IDW)
PICTURES IN THE FIRE (REH Foundation Press)
THE ROBERT E. HOWARD GUIDE by Patrice Louinet (Skelos Press)