About Robert E. Howard

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The Dark Man V8N2 (#20): The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies

2017

Publication type

Publication date: August 2017

Introduction

'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: Jason Carney, Scott Connors, Nichole Emmelhainz, Mark Finn, Charles Gramlich, Mark Hall, Jeffrey Kahan, Gene Melton II, Jeffrey Shanks

Print on demand.
Page numbered from 133 through 190.

Cover uses the illustration from the cover of A Gent from Bear Creek by Robert E. Howard, published by Herbert Jenkins.

Edition and production details

Language: English

Edition format: Periodical (perfect bound, 5.5 x 8.5)
Publication date: August 2017
Identifiers: ISBN-13: 9781974336081 ISSN: 1537-0496
Pages: 56
Publisher / imprint: CreateSpace
Cover art: Cover of A GENT FROM BEAR CREEK published by Herbert Jenkins
Illustrations: None

10 contents entries

"Notes from the Editor" by Mark E. Hall ( Editorial )
Editorial: Notes from the Editor (The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Fiction Studies, August 2017) • essay by Mark Hall 135 · editorial
Papers from the Popular Culture Association Meetings
The Mistaken Identity of a Barbarian: Conan, Hero or Anti-Hero? • essay by Todd Vick [as by Todd B. Vick] 137 · essay
"The Mistaken Identity of a Barbarian: Conan, Hero or Anti-Hero?" by Todd Vick
Local Color and its Underlying Meaning in Robert E. Howard's Weird Western, Southern Gothic Horror, and Detective Stories • essay by Dierk Günther? 157 · essay
"Local Color and Its Underlying Meaning in Robert E. Howard's Weird Western, Southern Gothic Horror, and Detective Stories" by Dierk Gunther
Review: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner by Karl Edward Wagner • review by Jason Ray Carney [as by Jason Carney] 187 · review
Review
"The Trick of the Archive" A review of Centipede Press's THE BEST HORROR STORIES OF KARL EDWARD WAGNER by Jason Carney

Contributors

Jason Carney: Editor
Scott Connors: Editor
Nichole Emmelhainz: Editor
Mark Finn: Editor
Charles Gramlich: Editor
Mark Hall: Editor
Jeffrey Kahan: Editor
Gene Melton II: Editor
Jeffrey Shanks: Editor
Mark E. Hall: Editor
Todd Vick: Essayist
Dierk Günther?: Essayist

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

Charles Allen Gramlich Dierk Günther Jason Ray Carney Robert E. Howard Todd B. Vick

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Bibliographic source layer

Title: The Dark Man Volume 8 Number 2: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publisher: CreateSpace
Date: August 2017
Source file: Darkman20-V8N2-CreateSpace.html

REH World editorial layer

Title: The Dark Man V8N2 (#20): The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publisher: CreateSpace
Date: August 2017