Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard
Publication date: January 2012
Introduction
Mark Finn has written one of the very best biographies about Robert E. Howard. Mark Finn sets the record straight on Howard's character. First published in a trade paperback edition in November 2006 by MonkeyBrain Books. A second, expanded and corrected edition was published in hardcover by The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press in January 2012; a trade paperback followed from the same publisher in 2013.
The first volume from The Robert E. Howard Foundation was printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 150 copies, each individually numbered. This book is still available in softcover from the Robert E. Howard museum according to Arlene Stephenson.
Notes
Written by Mark Finn
Limited edition of 150 copies each individually numbered and signed by the author.
Updated and expanded second edition.
This edition is more complete and up-to-date with new information discovered since the book was initially published in 2006, as well as more detailed examinations of some of Howard’s most famous and important characters and stories.
Edition and production details
- Edition
- 1st from MonkeyBrain Books, 1st HC from REH Foundation, 2nd. softcover from REH Foundation
- Format
- hardcover
- Publication date
- January 2012
- Pages
- viii plus 454
- Publisher / imprint
- The REH Foundation Press
- Cover art
- Photo on REH on the Foundation issues. Cover art by John Picacio on the MonkeyBrain Books edition
- Illustrations
- None
- Edition
- 1st from MonkeyBrain Books, 1st HC from REH Foundation, 2nd. softcover from REH Foundation
- Format
- paperback
- Publication date
- January 2012
- Pages
- viii plus 454
- Publisher / imprint
- The REH Foundation Press
- Cover art
- Photo on REH on the Foundation issues. Cover art by John Picacio on the MonkeyBrain Books edition
- Illustrations
- None
27 contents entries
- "Introduction" by Joe R. Lansdale
- Part 1
- "The Oil Boom"
- "Isaac and Hester"
- "The Traveling Howards"
- "Post Oak Country"
- Part 2
- "Authentic Liars"
- "The Tattler"
- "Soda Jerk"
- "The Deal"
- Part 3
- "The Fighting Costigans"
- "Lovecraft"
- "Conan"
- Part 4
- "Novalyne"
- "Vultures and Grizzlies"
- "All Fled, All Done"
- "Mythology"
- Afterword
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title Index
- Acnowledgements
- Acknowledgement
Contributors
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