The recent discovery of an unpublished Robert E. Howard letter, announced by scholar Will Oliver, has sparked excitement among Howard enthusiasts. Found in the Forrest J. Ackerman Papers at Syracuse University, the letter is addressed to E. Hoffmann Price and offers fresh insights into Howard’s correspondence, literary interests, and personal connections. Through meticulous analysis of [ read more . . . ]
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Oct
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To a man whose name I never knew. Published in The Junto volume 1 number 8 by Booth Mooney, November 1928.
THE JUNTO was a literary travelogue circulated from member to member on its mailing list with each member adding some content.
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Apr
A rejection letter from this publisher to REH with respect to a manuscript of poetry REH had submitted, entitled “Singers in the Shadow.” This collection was later published by Donald M. Grant in 1970.
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Aug
This essay delves into the influences that sparked part of Howard’s imagination, with a focus on three influential women who played a significant role in his work in the horror genre of his stories.
Sketches. This title was used for two separate collections of stories. It was first used in THE JUNTO, Volume 2, #4, September 1929, for a bundle that included “Sentiment”, “Musings”, “Midnight”, and “Etched in Ebony”. The title was re-used by Glenn Lord for a bundle of seven stories that were published in TRUMPET #7. Those seven stories include “Ambition in the Moonlight”, “To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew”, “Musings”, “Etched in Ebony”, “The Galveston Affair”, “Surrender – Your Money or Your Vice”, and “Them”. All seven stories came from various issues of THE JUNTO.
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This document, likely created by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s, lists many of his stories alongside their geographical and temporal settings, as well as the main recurring characters.
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Jan
“Drums of Tombalku” is an American fantasy short story, one of the original ones written in the 1930s by Robert E. Howard featuring Conan the Cimmerian. Howard left it as an untitled synopsis that was not published in his lifetime. The tale was finalized by L. Sprague de Camp and in this form first published in the collection Conan the Adventurer (1966). It has first been published in its original form in the collection The Pool of the Black One (Donald M. Grant, 1986) and later in The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle (Gollancz, 2000) and Conan of Cimmeria: Volume Two (1934) (Del Rey, 2005).
Fragment and a synopsis. The fragment in The Pool of the Black One was bowdlerized when it appeared.
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Nov
A personal letter written by Robert E. Howard to Emil Petaja.
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Jul
‘Tom Sharkey – Mankiller’ was an article Howard wrote that is now lost. It is not known where Howard submitted it, but it was probably in 1925.