Features a comprehensive series of indexes and supplementary material covering the first year of The Cimmerian (Volume 1, Numbers 1–5, 2004). Includes Title Indexes, Author and Subject Indexes, Contributor’s Guide, a Catalogue of Art and more.
This special index issue is only available in a deluxe edition, and is the perfect capstone to your deluxe Volume 1 collection.
Features a symposium on the twentieth anniversary of The Dark Barbarian, including detailed critical reminiscences from Darrell Schweitzer, Charles Hoffman, and Don Herron, a comprehensive series of historical commentaries and reviews, plus verse from poetic maestro Donald Sidney-Fryer, a huge Letters column, art, and more.
Features a comprehensive Howardian interview with noted Howard editor and religious scholar Robert M. Price, conducted by Ben Zoom, an essay on The Whole Wide World and Christianity by Price, a profusely photographed visit to an interesting Howardian landmark, plus announcements, a meaty Letters column, art, poetry, and more.
Contains “Wings in the Night” with Solomon Kane. Kane comes across an entire village wiped out, and all of the roofs have been ripped off, as if by something attempting to get inside from above.
Contains Robert E. Howards poem “The Last Day”.
Contains the poem ‘The Song of a Mad Minstrel’ by Howard.
The Children of the Night” is a 1931 short story by Robert E. Howard, belonging to the Cthulhu Mythos. It was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the April/May 1931 issue. Howard earned $60 for this publication.
The story starts with six people sitting in John Conrad’s study: Conrad himself, Clemants, Professor Kirowan, Taverel, Ketrick and the narrator John O’Donnel. O’Donnel describes them all as Anglo-Saxon with the exception of Ketrick. Ketrick, although he possesses a documented pure Anglo-Saxon lineage, appears to have slightly Mongolian-looking eyes and an odd lisp that O’Donnel finds distasteful.
Contains the poem ‘The Gates of Nineveh’.
Contains the story Sea Curse, a tale which starts with a village tragedy. A local girl who lives with her elderly aunt has been seduced and deflowered by a swaggering, drunk sailor.
In despair she drowns herself in the ocean. The sailor mocks her aunt over the girl’s washed-up body on the beach. The old aunt retaliates by putting an awful, terrible curse upon the sailor and his mate…and from that moment, the wheels of awful destiny are put into motion.
In this story, first published in the March 1928 edition of Weird Tales Magazine, a fetish-man, on the grasslands of South Africa, conceals an unusual ability.
