SONGS OF GIANTS is a collection of some of the very best poetry written by three giants of pulp literature; Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft. In March 2019 Mark Wheatley launched a Kickstarter and it was a giant success. In a short period of time it was funded by 293 backers which pledged $13,415 to bring the project to life.

Wheatley has brought the poems to life with illustrations inspired by the early, classic, golden age of pulp illustrators.

There is also a mini-biography of Howard. Depending on your pledge on the Kickstarter you got an audio CD (Haunted House of Usher), the limited edition hardcover book, screen saver, wallpapers, signed comic books, portfolio of mini-prints and more.

SONGS OF GIANTS is a collection of some of the very best poetry written by three giants of pulp literature; Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft. In March 2019 Mark Wheatley launched a Kickstarter and it was a giant success. In a short period of time it was funded by 293 backers which pledged $13,415 to bring the project to life.

Wheatley has brought the poems to life with illustrations inspired by the early, classic, golden age of pulp illustrators.

There is also a mini-biography of Howard. Depending on your pledge on the Kickstarter you got an audio CD (Haunted House of Usher), the limited edition hardcover book, screen saver, wallpapers, signed comic books, portfolio of mini-prints and more.

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Contents

•  Songs of Giants: The Poetry of Pulp • interior artwork by Mark Wheatley
• [5] • Arming the Valkyries • essay by Jack McDevitt
• [8] • Hallowe’en in a Suburb • (1926) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of In a Suburb)
• [10] • Flaming Marble • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Flaming Marble (“I carved a woman out of marble when…”) 1929)
• [12] • Poverty • poem by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• [14] • Battle Song • poem by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Regnar Lodbrog’s Epicedium, or Funeral Song (8th Century) 1944)
• [18] • Dreaming on Downs • (1929) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [20] • Ode for July Fourth, 1917 • non-genre • (1917) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [22] • A Lady’s Chamber • (1929) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [24] • My Mother Was a Wild Cat • poem by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• [26] • Surrender • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Surrender (“I will rise someday when the day is done…”) 1962)
• [28] • The Cats • (1977) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [30] • Solomon Kane’s Homecoming • [Solomon Kane] • (1936) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [32] • The Passing O’ My Pal, Bill • poem by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• [36] • The Wood • (1929) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [38] • The Riders of Babylon • (1928) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [40] • Astrophobos • (1918) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [42] • The Madness of Cormac • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [44] • Red Thunder • (1929) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [46] • Good Saint Nick • [[Christmas Greetings] • 2] • poem by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of [To Eugene B. Kuntz et al.] 1984)
• [48] • March • (1915) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [50] • The Sea • (1923) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [52] • The Nightmare Lake • (1919) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [54] • Song at Midnight • (1940) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [56] • Nemesis • (1918) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• [58] • Tides • (1929) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• [60] • I Stood at the Bar • poem by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• [64] • Pan • poem by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of To Pan 1919)
• [66] • Robert Ervin Howard • essay by uncredited
• [67] • Edgar Rice Burroughs • essay by uncredited
• [68] • Howard Phillips Lovecraft • essay by uncredited
• [69] • Unexpecte Associations: Illustrating the Poetry of Pulp • essay by Mark Wheatley

Notes

Limited edition of 1000 copies
A compact disk audiobook was published by Redfield Arts Audio.

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