‘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.
Contents
- 4 • Editorial (The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies, December 2021) • essay by Jason Ray Carney and Nicole Emmelhainz [as by Jason Ray Carney and Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney]
- 6 • Gendered and Genrefied: Transgressive Heroism in Sword and Sorcery • essay by Anthony Conrad Chieffalo
- 23 • Howard and “Strange Tales” • essay by Willard M. Oliver
- 53 • REH Roundtable, Texas A&M at Commerce, Honors Program • essay by Jason Ray Carney and Benjamin Garstad and Ray Green and Hunter Hayes and Tracy Henley and Jonas Prida
- 77 • A Look at “The Tower of the Elephant” • essay by Gary Romeo
- 81 • Review: The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard’s Weird Fantasy by Fred Blosser • review by Brian Murphy
- 90 • Review: The Weird Tales Story—Enhanced and Expanded by Jason Ray Carney and Adrian Cole and S. T. Joshi and Bob McLain and Darrell Schweitzer and Robert Weinberg • review by Cora Buhlert
- 97 • Review: The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One:The 1930s by Daniel Ritter and David Ritter • review by Robert Derie (variant of The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume One: The 1930s) [as by Bobby Derie]
Notes
Editors: Jason Ray Carney and Nichole Emmelhainz-Carney
Volume 12, number 2.
