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The Dark Man #2: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies

Necronomicon Press

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Publication date: July 1991

Introduction

A chapbook from 1991. Edited by Rusty Burke. 

The Dark Man #2: 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.
Cover artist credited on copyright page.
"A Voice from the Past" is imbedded in "Barbarian Aftermath".
Robert H. Knox also designed the banner that appears on the cover and title page.

Edition and production details

Format
Booklet / Chapbook (7 by 8 1/2)
Publication date
July 1991
Pages
40
Publisher / imprint
Necronomicon Press
Cover art
Robert H. Knox
Illustrations
None

1 linked Howard work

26 contents entries

  1. "Bill Smalley and the Power of the Human Eye" by REH
  2. The Dark Man #2 (banner) • interior artwork by Robert H. Knox 1 · artwork
  3. Articles
  4. The Horror Fiction of Robert E. Howard • essay by Steven R. Trout 2 · essay
  5. "The Horror Fiction of Robert E. Howard" by Steven R. Trout
  6. Solomon and Sorcery • (1977) • essay by Michael Kellar 11 · essay
  7. "Solomon and Sorcery" by Michael Keller
  8. The Old Deserted House: Images of the South in Howard's Fiction • essay by Rusty Burke 13 · essay
  9. "The Old Deserted House: Images of the South in Howard's Fiction" by Rusty Burke
  10. "Come Back to Valusia Ag'in, Kull Honey!": Robert E. Howard and Mainstream American Literature • essay by Marc Cerasini [as by Marc A. Cerasini] 22 · essay
  11. "'Come Back to Valusia Ag'in, Kull Honey!': Robert E. Howard and Mainstream American Fiction" by Marc A. Cerasini
  12. On Howadian Fairyland • essay by Don Herron 24 · essay
  13. "On Howardian Fairyland" by Don Herron
  14. Bill Smalley and the Power of the Human Eye • short fiction by Robert E. Howard 25 · story
  15. "Cultural Trends in Literature" by Thomas R. Reid
  16. Cultural Trends in Literature • essay by Thomas R. Reid 30 · essay
  17. "Barbarian Aftermath" by Don Herron with "A Voice from the Past" by Paul Spencer
  18. Barbarian Aftermath • essay by Don Herron 32 · essay
  19. "The Expurgated Solomon Kane" by Steven R. Trout (with Vernon M. Clark)
  20. A Voice from the Past • essay by Paul Spencer 32 · essay
  21. Review: "Robert E. Howard Selected Letters 1931-1936" by Richard L. Tierney
  22. The Expurgated Solomon Kane • essay by Vernon M. Clark and Steven R. Trout 33 · essay
  23. "The Robert E. Howard Home"
  24. Review: Robert E. Howard: Selected Letters 1931-1936 by Robert E. Howard • review by Richard L. Tierney 38 · review
  25. The Robert E. Howard Home • essay by Rusty Burke 40 · essay
  26. The Robert E. Howard Home • interior artwork by Rusty Burke 40 · artwork

Contributors

Robert H. Knox
Cover artist

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Bibliographic and editorial layers

Howard Works source layer

Title
The Dark Man #2: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publisher
Necronomicon Press
Date
July 1991
Source file
darkman2.html

REH World editorial layer

Title
The Dark Man #2: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publisher
Necronomicon Press
Date
July 1991
Source provenance

This record combines the preserved Howard Works bibliography with a reviewed REH World editorial overlay. Editorial values are displayed when present; Howard Works remains the source and fallback.