Features a comprehensive essay on Robert E. Howard’s work in the spicy pulp genre, an article on the historical origins of Howard’s fictional Cimmeria, a piece delving into the literary underpinnings of the Conan story “Black Colossus,” a rare Novalyne Price historical oddity, a breaking news scoop in Announcements, Howardian poetry, an overflowing letters column, and more.
Robert E. Howard wrote many types of stories. These are funny, over the top adventures about Breckinridge Elkins from Bear Creek. Could be categorized as funny western. The volume is 414 pages, plus introductory material.
This is Volume two and it collects the novel, A Gent from Bear Creek as well as the exploits of Howard’s other funny western heroes–including Pike Bearfield and Buckner J. Grimes–all restored to the original text, where available.
This volume is printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 300 copies, each individually numbered.Cover design and painting by Richard Bernal; introduction by James Reasoner; edited by Rob Roehm and Paul Herman.
