About Robert E. Howard

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The Dark Man #8: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies

Seele-Brennt Publications

2004

Material type

Booklet Magazine

Publication categories

Periodical Chapbooks

Publication date: Winter 2004

Introduction

Edited by Mark Hall with assistant editor Charles Gramlich.

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

Perfect bound, wraps. Page numbers do not include covers.

Edition and production details

Format: Booklet (5 1/2 by 8 1/24)
Publication date: Winter 2004
Pages: 52 including covers
Publisher / imprint: Seele-Brennt Publications
Cover art: Cover illustration a photo of Howard in San Antonio, February 1932 on a postcard sent to H. P. Lovecraft.
Illustrations: None

17 contents entries

"Editor's Corner" with comments from: Mark Hall, editor Charles Gramlich, Assistant Editor
Editor's Corner • essay by Charles Allen Gramlich and Mark Hall (variant of Editor's Corner (The Dark Man #8)) [as by Charles Gramlich and Mark Hall] 2 · essay
Articles
Texas as a Character in Robert E. Howard's Fiction • essay by Mark Finn 3 · essay
"Texas as Character in Robert E. Howard's Fiction" by Mark Finn
Robert E. Howard in the Gothic Tradition • essay by Charles Allen Gramlich [as by Charles A. Gramlich] 8 · essay
"Robert E. Howard in the Gothic Tradition" by Charles Gramlich
Review: The Barbaric Triumph: A Critical Anthology on the Writings of Robert E. Howard by Don Herron • review by Fred Blosser 24 · review
"Two Views on The Barbaric Triumph" by Fred Blosser and S.T. Joshi
Review: The Barbaric Triumph: A Critical Anthology on the Writings of Robert E. Howard by Don Herron • review by S. T. Joshi 27 · review
"Adventures--Imperial and Otherwise" by Mark E. Hall
Review: Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure by Richard Phillips (Lecturer in Geography) • review by Mark Hall [as by Mark E. Hall] 33 · review
Reviews : "Power of the Writing Mind" by Scotty Henderson "Graveyard Rats" by Charles Hoffman
Review: Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind by Ben Szumskyj • review by Scotty Henderson 40 · review
"Through a Prism, Darkly" by David Robbins
Review: Graveyard Rats and Others by Robert E. Howard • review by Charles Hoffman 45 · review
Review: The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard • review by David Robbins 48 · review

Contributors

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Charles Allen Gramlich Charles Hoffman Fred Blosser Mark Finn Mark Hall Robert E. Howard S. T. Joshi Scotty Henderson