Cover image unavailableThe Dark Man #1: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publication date: August 1990
Introduction
A chapbook from 1990. Edited by Rusty Burke.
The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the academic study of Robert E. Howard's literary legacy as well as the literary historical and print culture contexts associated with it. The journal seeks to publish full-length articles, brief critical notes and commentaries, bibliographies, reviews of books, and other scholarship that treats Howard's life, time, literary work, and associated topics such as Weird Tales, H.P. Lovecraft, and the concept of a transhistorical pulp fiction aesthetic.
Notes
Saddle stapled, wraps. Page numbers do not include covers.
8.5" x 7".
Artists credited on copyright page; Robert H. Knox designed the banner that appears on the cover and title page.
Submission guidelines include Rusty Burke's list of "pure" Conan sources.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Booklet / Chapbook (7 by 8 1/2)
- Publication date
- August 1990
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher / imprint
- Necronomicon Press
- Cover art
- Bill Cavalier
- Illustrations
- None
2 linked Howard works
- Gods of the North story Publications
- The Frost-Giant's Daughter story Publications
21 contents entries
- "Editorial"
- Editorial (The Dark Man #1) • essay by Rusty Burke 3 · editorial
- "The Frost-Giant's Daughter; An Early Draft" by REH
- Swords at the Academy Gates; Or, Robert E. Howard Is There, Where Are the Critics? • essay by Don Herron 5 · essay
- Articles
- King Conan and the Aquilonian Dream • essay by Steven R. Trout 10 · essay
- "Swords at the Acadamy Gates; Or, Robert E. Howard is There, Where are the Critics?" by Don Herron
- Toward Other Lands. An Approach to Robert E. Howard • essay by Rusty Burke 17 · essay
- "King Conan and the Aquilonian Dream" by Steven R. Trout
- The Howard Complex • essay by Dan Stumpf 23 · essay
- "Toward Other Lands: An Approach to Robert E. Howard" by Rusty Burke
- Herbert Klatt • essay by Glenn Lord 24 · essay
- "The Howard Complex" by Dan Stumpf
- The Frost Giant's Daughter, An Early Draft • short story by Robert E. Howard 28 · story
- "Herbert Klatt" by Glenn Lord
- Review: Echoes of Valor II by Karl Edward Wagner • review by Rusty Burke 32 · review
- Reviews: "Echoes of Valor II" by Rusty Burke "Post Oaks and Sand Roughs" by Charles Hoffmann
- Review: Post Oaks and Sand Roughs by Robert E. Howard • review by Charles Hoffman 35 · review
- "Guidelines for Submissions"
- Guidelines for Submissions (The Dark Man) • essay by uncredited 37 · essay
- Acceptable Sources for Howard's "Conan" Material • essay by uncredited 38 · essay
Contributors
- Bill Cavalier
- Cover artist
Additional related terms
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- The Dark Man #1: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Publisher
- Necronomicon Press
- Date
- August 1990
- Source file
- darkman1.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- The Dark Man #1: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Publisher
- Necronomicon Press
- Date
- August 1990