The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All "The Robert E. Howard LitCrit Megapack

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46 contents entries

1. "Hard-Boiled Heroic Critic" by Charles Hoffman
2. The Dark Barbarian
3. "Introduction" by Don Herron
4. "Howard's Fantasy" by Fritz Lieber
5. "Robert E. Howard: Frontiersman of Letters" by Donald Sydney-Fryer
6. "Barbarian Bard: The Poetry of Robert E. Howard" by Steve Eng
7. "Through Black Boughs: The Supernatural on Howard's Fiction" by Dennis Rickard
8. "The Western Fiction of Robert E. Howard" by Ben P. Indick
9. "Robert E. Howard: Hard-Boiled Heroic Fantasist" by George Knight
10. "Robert E. Howard: Professional Writer" by Glenn Lord
11. "The Dark Barbarian" by Don Herron
12. Appendix A: "Robert E. Howard's Library"
13. Appendix B: "Howard's Suicide"
14. Acknowledgements
15. Notes on the Contributors
16. The Barbaric Triumph
17. "Introduction" by Don Herron
18. "A Voice from the Past: An Overture from December 1943" by Paul Spencer
19. "Conan the Existential" by Charles Hoffman
20. "Fists of Robert E. Howard" by Mark Finn
21. "The Shadow from a Soul on Fire: Robert E. Howard and Irrationalism" by Edward A. Waterman
22. "Heritage of Steel: Howard and the Frontier Myth" by Steven R. Trout
23. "Barbarism and Decadence" by Lauric Guillard
24. "Twilight of the Gods: Howard and the Volkstumbewegung" by Scott Conners
25. "Gigantic Gulfs of Eons: Kull, Conan, and Tyrant Time" by Steven Tompkins
26. "Lands of Dreams and Nightmares" by George Knight
27. "The Reign of Blood" by Leo Grin
28. "The Barbaric Triumph" by Don Herron
29. Acknowledgements
30. Notes on the Contributors
31. "YOURS FOR FASTER HIPPOS," (Thirty Years of "Conan vs. Conantics")
32. "Conan vs. Conantics"
33. "The Tennessee Kid: Some History "
34. "Bran Mak Morn"
35. "On Murgunstrumm , Mak Morn, and Karl Edward Wagner: Afterthoughts "
36. " Postscript : The Shadow of the Dragon"
37. Acknowledgements
38. Megapack Bonus
39. "Swords at the Academy Gates: or, Robert E. Howard Is There, Where Are the Critics?"
40. "On Howardian Fairyland"
41. "The Geo Knight Caper"
42. "Conan the Expensive"
43. "Castrated, But Still Limping Along: The Dark Man 1990-2010"
44. "Walk on the Wildside: A Brace of Reviews"
45. "Non Sequiturs Inside the Academy Gates"
46. "Enter the Academics"

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