Fantasy Crossroads #8
Publication date: May 1976
Introduction
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon. This was a Spicy Adventure Issue, from May 1976. Issue 8 Contains the first appearance of both DAUGHTERS OF FEUD and the poem MISER'S GOLD. Cover illustration by Richard Corben (from an illustration of Night Images featuring REH poems).
Notes
Whole number 8. Page numbers include covers.
Saddle stapled, wraps.
Spicy Adventure Issue.
Print run 1000 numbered copies.
Print size reduced (for the second time)to permit more content in fewer pages.
The cover illustration is from Night Images, a book of Howard poetry.
The letters from Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett appeared originally in Return to Wonder, edited by Stephen Riley.
The Lovecraft letter appears as a copy of the handwritten missive and in typescript.
Edition and production details
- Edition
- 1st
- Format
- Periodical (8.5 x 11, saddle stapled)
- Publication date
- May 1976
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher / imprint
- Stygian Isle Press
- Cover art
- Richard Corben (an illustration from NIGHT IMAGES featuring REH poems)
- Illustrations
- See contents
2 linked Howard works
- Daughters of Feudstory
- Miser's Goldverse
63 contents entries
- " Daughters of Feud"
- Fantasy Crossroads #8 (Logo) • interior artwork by Clyde Caldwell 2 · artwork
- " Miser's Gold" (poem)
- Ramblings (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • [Editorial Ramblings] • essay by Jonathan Bacon 3 · editorial
- Non-REH Contents
- Letter from Edmond Hamilton, May 1969 • essay by Edmond Hamilton 3 · essay
- "Ramblings" by Jonathan Bacon (editorial)
- Letter: H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, June 23, 1930 • essay by H. P. Lovecraft 4 · essay
- Letter to Clark Ashton Smith from H. P. Lovecraft
- Notes on Lovecraft's Letter to Smith • essay by Dirk W. Mosig [as by Dirk Mosig] 5 · essay
- "Revue Rak" (reviews)
- Revue Rak • essay by uncredited 6 · essay
- "Epistle Express" (letter column)
- Review: Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side by Frank Belknap Long • review by Loay Hall [as by Loay H. Hall] 6 · review
- "The God in the Bowl Portfolio" by Gene Day
- Review of "Robert E. Howard's Conan": A Record Album • essay by Marty Ellenberger 7 · review
- "Rough Love Pays" by Tevis Clyde Smith
- Review: Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side by Frank Belknap Long • review by Scott Connors 7 · review
- "The Ghost-King and the Girl" by John Bredon
- Review of "Fantasae #1" by Ken & Deb Raney • essay by Jonathan Bacon 8 · review
- "The Red Cap of Mara" by Clifford M. Eddy, Jr.
- Review: The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson • review by Dirk W. Mosig 8 · review
- "Crimson Cavalier" by John Bredon (poem)
- Epistle Express (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • [Epistle Express] • essay by Jonathan Bacon 9 · essay
- "Far Babylon" by L. Sprague de Camp
- Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • essay by Gregory Nicoll 9 · essay
- "Night Feast" by Michael Fantina (poem)
- Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • essay by Bob Barger [as by Robert P. Barger] 9 · essay
- "Of Sword & Sorcery: Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser" by Paul C. Allen (article)
- Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • essay by Scott Connors 9 · essay
- "The Macabre in Heroic Fantasy" by Lee Brown Coye
- Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • essay by Arnie Fenner [as by Arnold Fenner] 10 · essay
- "Ode to the Pulps" by William A. Conder (poem)
- Fantasy Crossroads #8 • interior artwork by Arnie Fenner 10 · artwork
- Fantasy Crossroads #8 [2] • interior artwork by Jim Jones (I) 11 · artwork
- Letter (Fantasy Crossroads #8) • essay by Loay Hall 11 · essay
- Fantasy Crossroads #8 [3] • interior artwork by Douglas Herring 12 · artwork
- "The God in the Bowl" Portfolio • interior artwork by Gene Day 12 · artwork
- Daughters of Feud • short story by Robert E. Howard 18 · story
- Daughters of Feud • interior artwork by Clyde Caldwell 18 · artwork
- Rough Love Pays • short story by Tevis Clyde Smith 24 · story
- Rough Love Pays • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian 24 · artwork
- The King Ghost and the Girl • short story by Steve Eng [as by John Bredon] 27 · story
- The King Ghost and the Girl • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 27 · artwork
- Red Cap of Mara • short story by G. M. Eddy, Jr. 28 · story
- Red Cap of Mara • interior artwork by Richard Huber [as by Richard Huber, Jr.] 28 · artwork
- Crimson Cavalier • poem by Steve Eng [as by John Bredon] 33 · poem
- Crimson Cavalier • interior artwork by Ric Cruz and Sam de la Rosa 33 · artwork
- Miser's Gold • poem by Robert E. Howard 34 · poem
- Miser's Gold • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 34 · artwork
- Far Babylon • interior artwork by Ric Cruz 36 · artwork
- Far Babylon • [W. Wilson Newbury] • (1976) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp 37 · story
- Fantasy Crossroads #8 [3[ • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian 38 · artwork
- Night Feast • poem by Michael Fantina 39 · poem
- Night Feast • interior artwork by Ric Cruz 39 · artwork
- Of Sword & Sorcery: Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber • essay by Paul C. Allen 40 · essay
- Letter from Leigh Brackett, May 22, 1969 • essay by Leigh Brackett 42 · essay
- Review: The Coming of the Horseclans by Robert Adams • review by Paul C. Allen 42 · review
- Review: Sword of the Gael by Andrew J. Offutt • review by Paul C. Allen 42 · review
- The Macabre in Heroic Fantasy: From "The Jewel in the Skull" • short fiction by Michael Moorcock 43 · story
- The Macabre in Heroic Fantasy: From "The Jewel in the Skull" • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye 43 · artwork
- Ode to the Pulps • poem by William A. Conder 44 · poem
- Ode to the Pulps • interior artwork by Richard Huber [as by Richard Huber, Jr.] 44 · artwork
Contributors
- Gene Day, Lee Brown Coye
- Illustrator
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- Fantasy Crossroads #8
- Publisher
- Stygian Isle Press
- Date
- May 1976
- Source file
- fantasycrossroads8.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Fantasy Crossroads #8
- Publisher
- Stygian Isle Press
- Date
- May 1976