A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from February 1976. Issue 7 contains the first appearance of the poem “Madame Goose’s Rhymes”, the untitled story (“The night was damp, misty, …”), a letter to Harold Preece from August 1928 and the story College Socks (featuring Kid Allison).
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from August 1976. Issue 9 Contains the first appearance of THE LAST LAUGH by Howard. It also contains a review of the album record “From the Hells beneath the Hells” by Dennis McHaney and a Red Nails portfolio by Gene Day. It also contains a short story by Tevis Clyde Smith.
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from May 1976. Issue 8 Contains the first appearance of both DAUGHTERS OF FEUD and MISER’S GOLD. Cover illustration by Richard Corben (from an illustration of Night Images featuring REH poems).
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from March 1977. Issue 10/11 Contains the first apperance of GENSERIC’S FIFT BORN SON (see notes).. Front cover by Jim Fitzpatrick, back cover by Frank Frazetta.
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon. This special edition from January 1976 contains the poem VISIONS, the first apperance of the story FISTS OF THE REVOLUTION and MORE EVIDENCE OF THE INNATE DIVINITY OF A MAN. Also an interesting review by Harold Preece about L. Sprague de Camps “The Miscast Barbarian”.
Whispers Volume 2 Number 2/3, June 1975. Contains a letter from Howard to Wilfred Blanch Talman written circa September 1931. The letter starts like this: “Dear Mr. Talman:
Thank you very much for the letter you wrote to Street & Smith.” It’s numbered #175 and can be found in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume 2 as well.
Also there is some color artwork on pp. 66 & 67, courtesy of Donald Grant, published here before appearing in “The Tower of the Elephant” by Robert E. Howard that Grant published later in 1975.
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from January 1977. Issue 1 contains the story THE CURSE OF GREED and the two poems “The Outcast” and “The Kiowa’s Tale”.
The Spell of Seven. Contains SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT. is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil Finlay. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1963, but most of the stories were originally from 1930s pulp magazines. This was the first sword and sorcery anthology ever assembled and was followed by three additional such anthologies edited by de Camp. It has also been translated into German.
The Spell of Seven. Contains SHADOWS IN ZAMBOULA. The book is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil Finlay. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in June 1965 and reprinted in December 1969. It was the second such anthology assembled by de Camp, following his Swords and Sorcery (1963)
Magazine of Horror #36 (volume 6 number 6).
Contains the story THE GRISLY HORROR. Published for the first time in Weird Tales, February 1935. Also contains a story by Clark Ashton Smith.
