The synopsis of “King of the Forgotten People” tells the story of Jim Brill, an adventurer driven by love and duty, who embarks on a perilous journey into the Gobi Desert to find a missing scientist. The narrative unfolds with elements of survival, strange scientific experiments, and a climactic confrontation with forces both human and monstrous.
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Sep
Sep
The Earliest known draft of “King of the Forgotten People” is a tale of adventure set in the harsh, unforgiving desert and mysterious mountains of Inner Mongolia. The story follows Jim Brill, a determined and resourceful man on a dangerous quest, blending elements of survival, ancient empires, bizarre science, and power struggles.
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Jul
‘The Valley of the Golden Web’ is a very short story that is lost. Howard submitted it to Weird Tales in 1927 but it was never published.
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Feb
Feb
Part three of an article written by Rick Lai about the Legend of El Borak.
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Feb
Feb
Part two of an article written by Rick Lai about the Legend of El Borak.
Part three of a five-part article about Robert E. Howard and the Spicy stories. Rescued from the late Two-Gun Raconteur blog created by Damon C. Sasser.
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Apr
Apr
This is L. Sprague de Camp and his wife Catherines biography of Robert E. Howard. Considered by many to be full of gossip, psychoanalysis, rumors and tall-tales about Howard. There is a lot of Howard’s family history and upbringing including a family tree and all the places that Bob and his parents have lived over the years of his life before settling in Cross Plains, TX.
If you read this, be sure to read many of the more serious and great biographies that have since been written.
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Apr
Apr
‘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.
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Oct
Magazine of Horror #11 (volume 2 number 5).
Contains RATTLE OF BONES, a Solomon Kane story, and the poem “The Dweller in Dark Valley”.
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Jul
The Miscast Barbarian: a Biography of Robert E. Howard is a biography by science-fiction writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover and trade paperback in 1975 by Gerry de la Ree.
The book is an expansion of de Camp’s article “The Miscast Barbarian”, which appeared in the magazine Fantastic in June, 1971. Later, in collaboration with Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin, he expanded the text again, into Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard (1983), the first major independent biography of Howard.