Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 Number 5

Witchcraft & Sorcery Volume 1 Number 5. Prior to this issue, it was published by Camelot Publishing Company as Coven 13. The company was bought by Fantasy Publishing Company and the name was changed to Witchcraft & Sorcery.

This issue contains MISTRESS OF DEATH. Featuring Agnes de Chastillon. This is the only Dark Agnes story to include a fantasy element, in the form of a sorcerer. It is not written to the same standard as the two stories Howard completed, and features some departures from the established character, making her more stereotypically feminine. The story was not finished by Howard and he wrote two drafts. The story in this issue is based on the second unfinished draft and completed by Gerald W. Page.

Cross Plains Pilgrimage

Bobby Derie’s free book Cross Plains Pilgrimage was gifted to modern pilgrims (visitors) in Cross Plains on Howard Days 2022. It contains a sample of Derie’s scholarly work, focusing on E. Hoffman Price’s two visits to Howard. 

The Howard Collector 13

Glenn Lord published some REH collections on his own, such as the periodical The Howard Collector #1–19. In The Howard Collector, from 1961 to 1973, Lord featured previously unpublished (or very rare) pieces by Howard, letters by REH and those who knew him, indices of poems and stories, reprints of articles related to Howard, and news about upcoming publications and other events.

This is the number 13 from autumn 1970.

The Howard Collector 1

Glenn Lord published some REH collections on his own, such as the periodical The Howard Collector #1–19. In The Howard Collector, from 1961 to 1973, Lord featured previously unpublished (or very rare) pieces by Howard, letters by REH and those who knew him, indices of poems and stories, reprints of articles related to Howard, and news about upcoming publications and other events.

This is the very first issue containing four poems a letter from Roberts father to Frank Torbett after his sons death and more.

Sword & Fantasy #18

Contents include letters by Glenn Lord, Zarfhaana by Glenn Lord (1974), H.P. Lovecraft: The House and the Shadows by J. Vernon Shea, Cthulhu drawing by J. Cockroft (cover of LIGHT, 1946), Lovecraft on Burroughs, Memories of Quinn by E. Hoffman Price (1969), an intervidw with E. Hoffman Price, art folio by Joseph H. Krucher (1962), an interview with Karl Edward Wagner (1975), and more.