Cover image unavailableThe Dark Man #4: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
Publication date: May 1997
Introduction
A chapbook from 1997. Edited by Rusty Burke.
The Dark Man #4: 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.
The seven reviews of Howard publications by Rusty Burke are presented under the heading "The Robert E. Howard Library" from Baen Books.
Notes
Saddle stapled, wraps. Page numbers do not include covers.
Cover illustration signed and credited on front cover.
Robert H. Knox designed the banner that appears on the cover and title page.
The next issue was published by Mind's Eye HyperPublishing/Iron Harp Publications.
Edition and production details
- Format
- Booklet / Chapbook (7 by 8 1/2)
- Publication date
- May 1997
- Pages
- 36
- Publisher / imprint
- Necronomicon Press
- Cover art
- Rick McCollum
- Illustrations
- None
27 contents entries
- Articles
- The Birth of Conan • essay by Patrice Louinet 1 · essay
- "The Birth of Conan" by Patrice Louinet
- The Origin of Cimmeria • essay by Rusty Burke 12 · essay
- "The Origin of Cimmeria" by Rusty Burke
- The Star Rover and the People of the Night • essay by Fred Blosser 16 · essay
- "The Star Rover and The People of the Night" by Fred Blosser
- Howard Publishing in Eastern Europe • essay by Glenn Lord 19 · essay
- "Howard Publishing in Eastern Europe" by Glenn Lord
- Conan & Robert E. Howard on the Internet • essay by Edward A. Waterman 22 · essay
- "Conan & Robert E. Howard on the Internet" by Edward Waterman
- Remembrances: Jim Neal • essay by Fred Blosser 24 · essay
- Remembrances: "Jim Neal" by Fred Blosser "Harold Preece" by Rusty Burke "Karl Edward Wagner" by Rusty Burke
- Remembrances: Harold Preece • essay by Rusty Burke 25 · essay
- Reviews: "The Whole Wide World" by David C. Smith "The Robert E. Howard Library" by Rusty Burke "Tough Guys and Dangerous Dames" by Fred Blosser "Unaussprechlichen Kulten" by Vernon M. Clark
- Remebrances: Karl Edward Wagner • essay by Rusty Burke 26 · essay
- Editorial Comment
- Review of "The Whole Wide World" a movie directed by Dan Ireland • essay by David C. Smith 27 · review
- Review: Cormac Mac Art by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 32 · review
- Review: Kull by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 32 · review
- Review: Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 32 · review
- Review: Bran Mak Morn by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 33 · review
- Review: Eons of the Night by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 33 · review
- Review: Trails in Darkness by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 33 · review
- Review: Beyond the Borders by Robert E. Howard • review by Rusty Burke 33 · review
- Review: Tough Guys and Dangerous Dames by Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg and Robert E. Weinberg • review by Fred Blosser 34 · review
- Review: Unaussprechlichen Kulten: Etudes & Textes de Robert E. Howard, No. 1" Octobre 1990 by Stephane Labrousse and Lionel Londeix and Patrice Louinet • review by Vernon M. Clark 35 · review
Contributors
- Rick McCollum
- Cover artist
Additional related terms
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- The Dark Man #4: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Publisher
- Necronomicon Press
- Date
- May 1997
- Source file
- darkman4.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- The Dark Man #4: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies
- Publisher
- Necronomicon Press
- Date
- May 1997