New at Howard Works

Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Italian)
Chi di vampiro ferisce
Featuring: "The Horror from the Mound"
http://howardworks.com/Chi_di_vampiro_ferisce...-Casa_Editrice_La_Tribuna.html

Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Italian)
Chi di vampiro ferisce Einstein perduto 
Featuring: "The Horror from the Mound"
http://howardworks.com/Chi_di_vampiro_ferisce...Einstein_Perduto-Casa_Editrice_La_Tribuna.html

James Van Hise
The Road to Velitrium #49 / REHupa #179
Featuring:  "The Challenge from Beyond"
http://howardworks.com/RoadtoVelitrium49-REHupa179-JamesVanHise.html

Thanks to Scotty Henderson for the info and images.

Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics Super Special #2
Featuring: Conan story based on "Black Vulmea's Vengeance"
http://howardworks.com/MarvelComicsSuperSpecial2-Marvel.html

The Cimmerian Press
Famous Someday
Featuring: Articles on REH & his creations
http://howardworks.com/FamousSomeday-Cimmerian_Press.html

New at Howard Works

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
Racconti fantastici del '900. Volume primo
Featuring:  "Tigers of the Sea"
http://howardworks.com/Racconti_fantastici_del_900-Volume_primo-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
H. P. Lovecraft. Tutti i racconti. 1931-1936
Featuring:  "The Challenge from Beyond"
http://howardworks.com/Tutti_i_racconti-1931-1936-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html

Thanks to Scotty Henderson for the images and info.

James Van Hise
The Road to Velitrium #30 / REHupa #156
Featuring:
"Ambition by Moonlight"
"To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew"
"Musings"
"Etched in Ebony"
"The Galveston Affair"
"Surrender – Your Money or Your Vice"
"Them"
http://howardworks.com/RoadtoVelitrium30-REHupa156-JamesVanHise.html

Marvel Comics
Masters of Terror #2
Featuring:  "Dig Me No Grave"
http://howardworks.com/MastersofTerror2-Marvel.html

CONAN LE CIMMERIEN: LA CITADELLE ECARLATE
Coming in February 2019!

Glénat

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #2 
Coming in January!

by Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar
Cover by Esad Ribic
Variant Cover by Chris Bachalo
Variant Cover by Ema Luppachino
Variant Cover by Mark Brooks
Action Figure Variant Cover by John Tyler Christopher

BEYOND THE SAVAGE BORDER!
CONAN finds himself beyond the Black River, surrounded by the warlike PICTS!
But the tribesmen may be the least of his worries if he cannot fight his way through the demonic beasts slithering around the forest!
The epic return of the mighty Conan continues…

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale January 16.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #2 is solicited in the November PREVIEWS (Available October 24).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180756 (Ribic cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180757 (Bachalo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180758 (Lupacchino cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180759 (Brooks cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180760 (Action Figure cover).

Marvel Comics

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1 
Coming in January!

by Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar
Cover by Esad Ribic
Party Variant Cover by Mahmud Asrar
Variant Cover by Greg Hildebrandt
Teaser Variant Cover by Esad Ribic
Premiere Variant Cover by Esad Ribic
Variant Cover by Gerardo Zaffino
Variant Cover by Daniel Acuña
Variant Cover by Jesus Saiz
Variant Cover by Bill Sienkewicz
Variant Cover by John Cassaday
Variant Cover by Kirbi Fagan
Variant Cover by Adi Granov
Action Figure Variant Cover by John Tyler Christopher
Variant Cover by Skottie Young

BY CROM, THE GREATEST SWORD-AND-SORCERY HERO RETURNS TO MARVEL!

From an age undreamed…hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet…

Robert E. Howard’s creation returns to comics, in an epic tale as only MARVEL could bring you! Conan’s travels have brought him to the far reaches of the unkown, from his birthplace in Cimmeria to the kingdom of Aquilonia and all in between. As his fighting prowess allows him to carve his way through life, so too does it attract the forces of death!

The all-new ages-spanning saga begins here, by writer Jason Aaron (THE MIGHTY THOR, STAR WARS) and artist Mahmud Asrar (UNCANNY X-MEN, ALL-NEW, ALL-DIFFERENT AVENGERS), as Conan’s destiny is forever changed!

Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99, On sale January 2.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1 is solicited in the November PREVIEWS (Available October 24).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180740 (Ribic cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180741 (Asrar cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180742 (Hildebrandt cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180743 (Ribic variant cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180744 (Ribic variant cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180745 (Zaffino cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180746 (Acuna cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180747 (Saiz cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180748 (Sienkiewcz cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180749 (Cassaday cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180750 (Fagan cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180751 (Granov cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180752 (Action Figure cover).
The Diamond Item Code is NOV180753 (Young cover).

Marvel Comics

THE COLOSSAL CONAN THE CIMMERIAN HC 
Now available!

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.

Hardcover, Full Color, 7x10, 648 pages, $99.99

Dark Horse Comics

Conan's Storm Cellar
By Zach Zorich

National Park Service archaeologist Jeffrey Shanks recently led a team excavating a storm cellar at the house of Robert E. Howard.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/317-1811/trenches/7051-trenches-texas-conan-cellar

Famous Someday: 
A Robert E. Howard LitCrit TriplePunchPack!
by Don Herron 
Now available!

Rolling into Texas for the annual Robert E. Howard Days celebration in Cross Plains in the years counting down to the centennial of the writer’s birth in 2006, Leo Grin and Don Herron took a few notable side excursions.

They interviewed the last few people who had known REH. They followed some leads and tracked down a nice trove of books that had belonged to Doctor Isaac M. Howard — and were amazed to find that many of the items housed elaborate doodles from Howard’s father. (They even turned up the typescript for Howard’s first book, A Gent from Bear Creek, prepared by the Otis Adelbert Kline literary agency.)

All these adventures in biography jumped into print in Leo’s magazine The Cimmerian, which for a few years erupted volcanically on the Howardian landscape — and now are available once more for any fan of the creator of Conan.

Ever wonder how REH pronounced various words — such as, oh, Conan and Tarzan?

How good he was with a knife?

If he pounded out all his stories on his lonesome or hired a typist to prep clean copies, as he became more and more successful and cracked one pulp magazine market after another?

Read the interviews with the Baker Kids and Norris Chambers. Savor Doc’s Doodles in full color for the first time — The Cimmerian was printed in black-and-white. And take a rough-and-ready gander at Doc Howard's library courtesy of the research images shot on the spot.

Kindle price: $2.99

 Kindle Edition

New at Howard Works

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
L'urlo di Conan 
Featuring:
"Beyond the Black River"
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"Red Nails"
"The God in the Bowl"
"The Treasure of Tranicos"
"The Frost Giant's Daughter"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
http://howardworks.com/Lurlo_di_Conan-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
Racconti senza respiro. Volume primo 
Featuring:  "The Grey God Passes"
http://howardworks.com/Racconti_senza_respiro-Volume_primo-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html

Thanks to Scotty Henderson for the info and images.

James Van Hise
The Road to Velitrium #24
Featuring:  "The Devils of Dark Lake"
http://howardworks.com/RoadtoVelitrium24-REHupa150-JamesVanHise.html

Marvel Comics
Masters of Terror #1
Featuring:  "The Horror from the Mound"
http://howardworks.com/MastersofTerror1-Marvel.html

Éditions ActuSF / Hélios (French)
Le Guide Howard
http://howardworks.com/le_guide_howard-actusf-helios.html

CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: 
OUT OF THE DARKSOME HILLS 
Coming in February!

by Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza, Cary Nord, Thomas Yeates, Greg Ruth, Tom Mandrake

The legend returns! Conan the Barbarian stars in epic tales by comic book veteran Kurt Busiek - including classics adapted from the works of original author Robert E. Howard! Whether he's warring with the violent Vanir or meeting a Frost Giant's daughter, Conan's savage sword is always close at hand and ready for battle! The story of "The God in the Bowl" is presented in all its terrifying detail - introducing Conan's notorious adversary, Thoth-Amon! But who is Janissa the Widowmaker, and what role will she play in the Cimmerian warrior's life? Beware the Horror on Uskuth Hill - and the Thing in the Temple! And when two Nemedians walk into a bar, it's no joking matter. Prepare for swords and sorcery of the highest order with the greatest barbarian of them all!

COLLECTING: VOL. 1: CONAN: THE LEGEND 0, CONAN (2004) 1-19

Trade paperback, 496 pages, $39.99

Marvel Comics  

THE COLOSSAL CONAN THE CIMMERIAN HC 
Arriving in comic shops October 17!

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.

Hardcover, Full Color, 7x10, 648 pages, $99.99

Dark Horse Comics

Conan's Women: How to Win their Lust
By Jared Trueheart

New post at the Legends of Men blog.
http://legendsofmen.com/2018/05/conans-women-how-to-find-them-and-win-their-lust/

New at Howard Works

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
Kull. Esule di Atlantide
Featuring:
"Exile of Atlantis"
"The Shadow Kingdom"
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
untitled "'Thus,' said Tu, chief councillor, ..."
"The Cat and the Skull"
"The Screaming Skull of Silence"
"The Striking of the Gong"
"The Altar and the Scorpion"
"The Curse of the Golden Skull"
"The Black City"
untitled "Three men sat at a . . ."
"By This Axe I Rule!"
"Swords of the Purple Kingdom"
"The King and the Oak" (poem)
"Kings of the Night"
"Summer Morn" (poem)
"Am-ra the Ta-an" (poem)
"The Tale of Am-ra"
untitled "A land of wild, fantastic beauty . . . "
untitled "determined. So I set out up the hill . . ."
"The Shadow Kingdom" (draft)
"Delcardes' Cat" (draft)
"The King and the Oak" (draft) (poem)
http://howardworks.com/Kull-Esule_di_Atlantide-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Italian)
L'ora di Conan
Featuring:  "The Hour of the Dragon"
http://howardworks.com/Lora_di_Conan-Arnoldo_Mondadori_Editore.html

Multicom Entertainment Group
The Whole Wide World (Blu-ray)
http://howardworks.com/TheWholeWideWorld-Blu-ray-MulticomEntertainment.html

Marvel Comics
Marvel Preview #19
Featuring:   "The Footfalls Within" & "Riders Beyond the Sunrise"
http://howardworks.com/MarvelPreview19-Marvel.html

Glenn Lord
Candles
Featuring:  "Candles" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/Candles-GlennLord.html

Thanks to Wilhelm Weinrauch (http://weinrauchbooks.com/)
for the scans and information.

Updated at Howard Works
Added images of all four pages.

John Melville
Candles
Featuring:   "Candles" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/Candles-JohnMelville-1979.html

Perilous Worlds
New Conan titles in the works!

CONAN AND THE EMERALD LOTUS by John C. Hocking (Reprint)
Lured into the addictive thrall of the Emerald Lotus, the lovely sorceress Zalandra turns to Conan for aid. They must contend with bandits, undead revenants, monsters, and the desert deeps to defeat the lotus’s Stygian master in his lair, never guessing the Emerald Lotus itself may be the greater threat.

ISBN : 978-1-7328301-1-0
5.2 x 7.9 inches
$16

CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAGUE by John C. Hocking (New)
Sent to recover treasure from a plague-wracked city, not only must Conan avoid its deranged survivors, but battle a deadly disease given humanoid shape. To save himself – and perhaps the world — he allies with a scheming sorcerer to traverse a demon-haunted abyss in a desperate bid to destroy the Living Plague.

ISBN : 978-1-7328301-0-3
5.2 x 7.9 inches
$16

THE SONG OF BÊLIT by Michael A. Stackpole (New)
The novel is a prequel to Robert E. Howard’s story Queen of the Black Coast. It introduces Bêlit, the woman who is the love of Conan’s life, and chronicles her turbulent early life which set her on the path to becoming the pirate queen who ensorcels Conan. The exciting adventure dives deep into the world Howard created, weaving threads of history into the backstory of the most intriguing woman Howard ever wrote.

ISBN : 978-1-7328301-2-7
5.2 x 7.9 inches
$16

Perilous Worlds

Marvel Comics
Conan novellas announced!

At the New York ComicCon, Marvel announced a series of Conan novellas to be printed as three-page serialized back-ups in all of Marvel's Conan comic books.

Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan #1
Coming February 2019!

Marvel Comics has announced the creative team for Savage Sword of Conan will be writer Gerry Duggan and artist Ron Garney. The cover for the first issue is painted by Alex Ross over a design by Ron Garney. Garney will be doing the first 5-issue story arc. Presumably other creative teams will follow for subsequent story arcs. The cover and a sample of Ron Garney's art are below.

Richard Isanove was announced as the color artist, so this will be a color comic.

In addition, Marvel has announced a series of Conan novellas to be printed as three-page serialized back-ups in all of Marvel's Conan comic books.

H P Lovecraft and Robert E Howard: A Contrast in Horror
By Benjamin Cheah

New post at the PulpRev blog.
http://www.pulprev.com/2018/10/h-p-lovecraft-and-robert-e-howard.html

Pulp Hero Press
ROBERT E. HOWARD: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
By David C. Smith
Now available in softcover and eBook editions!

Hither Came REH...

From a single, stifling room in a small sagebrush town in central Texas, hunched over a manual typewriter, Robert E. Howard created memorable characters, exotic worlds, and glorious pulp adventures. In this new biography, Howard is firmly established as an important figure in American literature.

Before taking his own life at the age of 30, the precocious Howard was one of the most popular writers of the pulp magazine era of the Jazz Age and the Great Depression. Recognized today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian and the originator of the sword-and-sorcery genre, he was also a gifted poet and the author of now-classic horror stories, historical dramas, and comical tall tales.

But the gifted and brilliant Howard saw himself as an outsider in the small Texas town where he lived with his father, a physician, and his mother, who battled ill health for much of her life. Constrained by circumstance, Howard put into his fiction the excitement of far horizons that he himself was denied.

David C. Smith, himself a recognized author of fantasy and adventure fiction, here presents the unique story of a young man who defied the odds of his time and place to become a writer whose work is still enjoyed by millions. Smith shows us how Howard fulfilled his readers’ expectations for page-turning excitement while writing with poetic precision and creating archetypal characters that are now part of mainstream American popular culture.

Print Length: 259 pages
Kindle: $7.99

Pulp Hero Press  Amazon.com   Kindle 

LE GUIDE HOWARD By Patrice Louinet
Now available!

His lyrics have shaped the codes of fantasy. His characters (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane ...) marked generations of readers. For fifteen years, Robert E. Howard experiencing a true literary resurrection.
Free of interference of those who have appropriate after his death, his founding work is now available in full strength through friendly editions of his work.

Written by Patrice Louinet, one of the leading experts in the world of Howard, this guide full of new information explores the many facets of a rich work, debunks the last prejudices, and gives us a thousand and one reasons to (re) read again and again.

Summary
Thanks
I. Introduction
I. Ten myths about Howard
II. Twenty stories you need to have read (and why)
III. Biography
IV. Twenty other texts that deserve your attention
V. A few laconic words on ten other texts
VI. Conan, the real deal and the imitations
VII. About Howard
VIII. The Adaptations
IX. Around Howard
X. Dear Mr. Lovecraft
XI. Reading about Howard
Conclusion

Language: French
Trade Paperback Edition Price: € 8.00

For those who have the first edition, the content is identical

ActuSF / Hélios

Marvel Comics CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1
Coming January 2019!

At the Diamond Comics retailer breakfast, two variant covers for CONAN #1 were revealed.

Images from Bleeding Cool News.