Swordsmen and Supermen is a 1972 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Lawan Chomchalow. It contains Howard’s MEET CAP’N KIDD.
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Feb
Feb
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Sep
Sep
The Howard Review #10 – The “Lost Issue”. Published by Dennis McHaney in 2007. Distributed with REHUPA #208. This issue contains mostly letters written to Dennis McHaney and a poem by Robert E. Howard.
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Dec
Dec
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.
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Dec
Dec
Weird Tales Summer, 1973. 50th Anniversary Issue. Contains SPEAR AND FANG, a reprint of Howard’s first published story in Weird Tales.
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Nov
Nov
Weird Tales 1973 Fall. Contains THE MAN ON THE GROUND. is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard where two men are fighting a final duel. First published in Weird Tales 1933 July. It is a brief short story (under 2200 words) set in Texas about two men (Cal Reynolds & Esau Brill) who have been feuding for so long that no one really knows how their feud began.
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Oct
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.
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Oct
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)
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Oct
Oct
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.
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Oct
Oct
Magazine of Horror #21 (volume 4 number 3).
Contains KINGS OF THE NIGHT. Kings of the Night (first published in Weird Tales, November 1930). The first story to feature Bran as a king and describes him as a direct descendant of another Howard character, Brule the Spear-Slayer, companion of the Atlantean King Kull.
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Oct
Oct
Magazine of Horror #19 (volume 4 number 1).
Contains the poem THE YEARS ARE AS A KNIFE.