Cover image unavailableThe Dark Man V8N1 (#19): The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publication date: December 2015
Introduction
25th Anniversary Issue of '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
Editors: Scott Connors, Mark Finn, Charles Gramlich, Mark Hall, Jeffrey Kahan, Gene Melton II, Jeffrey Shanks
An e-book edition was also published.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Periodical (perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5) | eBook (Kindle)
- Publication date
- December 2015
- Pages
- 132
- Publisher / imprint
- CreateSpace
- Cover art
- Photo of REH
- Illustrations
- August Spaenkuch
26 contents entries
- Editorials
- Editorial: Twenty-Five Years Young! • essay by Mark Hall [as by Mark E. Hall] 4 · editorial
- "Twenty-Five Years Young!" by Mark E. Hall
- Editorial: Reflections • essay by Rusty Burke 5 · editorial
- "Reflections" by Rusty Burke
- Editorial: On Editing Robert E. Howard • essay by Chris Gruber 7 · editorial
- "On Editing Robert E. Howard" by Chris Gruber
- Editorial: My Robert E. Howard PhD Adventure • essay by Patrick R. Burger 9 · editorial
- "Mr. Robert E. Howard PhD Adventure" by Patrick R. Burger
- On the Precipice of Fascism: The Mythic and the Political in the Work of Robert E. Howard and Ernst Jünger • essay by Patrick R. Burger 23 · essay
- Letter
- The Influence of Joseph A. Altsheler's "Apache Gold" on Howard's "The Haunted Mountain" • essay by Robert M. McIlvaine [as by Robert McIlvaine] 44 · essay
- Comments on Finn's "Less an Archive, Moore an Agenda" by Todd Vick
- Literary Gothicism in Robert E. Howard's "Red Nails" • essay by Matthew Cirilli 51 · essay
- Abstract
- Berserker Synecdoche: Howard's Aesthetic of Violence • essay by Philip Emery 70 · essay
- "On the Precipice of Fascism: The Mythic and the Political in the Work of Robert E. Howard and Ernst Jünger" by Patrick R. Burger
- The Outsider Scholar: Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Scholarly Identity • essay by Karen Kohoutek 85 · essay
- Articles
- Disintegrating Verse: The Poetry of the Shadow Modernists and the Ephemerality of the Ordinary • essay by Jason Ray Carney 118 · essay
- "The Influence of Joseph A. Altsheler's APACHE GOLD on Howard's The Haunted Mountain " by Robert McIlvaine
- "Literary Gothicism in Robert E. Howard's Red Nails " by Matthew Cirilli
- "Berserker Synecdoche: Howard's Aesthetic of Violence" by Philip Emery
- Papers from the Popular Culture Association Meetings
- "The Outsider Scholar: Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Scholarly Identity" by Karen Kohoutek
- "Disintegrating Verse: The Poetry of the Shadow Modernists and the Ephemerality of the Ordinary" by Jason Ray Carney
Contributors
- August Spaenkuch
- Illustrator
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- The Dark Man Volume 8 Number 1: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Date
- December 2015
- Source file
- Darkman19-V8N1-CreateSpace.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- The Dark Man V8N1 (#19): The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Date
- December 2015