Magira #23/24

Edition and production details

Language

German

6 linked Howard works

• ASong of the Raceverse
• Moonlight on a Skullverse
• Red Blades of Black Cathaystory
• Red Blades of Black Cathayverse
• Runeverse
• The Tempterverse

20 contents entries

1. "Red Blades of Black Cathay" (verse heading, German & English )
2. Letter to Harold Preece dated 5 September 1928 "Yes, I like the idea of Eldorado . . ."
3. "A Song of the Race" (poem, German & English)
4. "The Tempter" (poem, lines 3, 4, 12, 16-20, 24-26 only)
5. "Die schwerter sind rot im schwarzen Cathay" ("Red Blades of Black Cathay") by Robert E. Howard & Tevis Clyde Smith
6. "Rune" (poem)
7. "Moonlight on a Skull" (poem)
8. Non-REH Contents
9. Indicia
10. "Schwert & Magie" ("Sword & Magic") by Hubert Strassl (editorial)
11. "Conan auf Kreuzzug" ("Conan on Crusade") by Allan Howard (article from Amra)
12. "Die schwerter sind rot im schwarzen Cathay" ("Red Blades of Black Cathay") (uncredited Introduction)
13. "Verdaulisches & Unverdaulisches" by Helmut Pesch (reviews)
14. "Robert E. Howard: Sein Leben und sein Tod" ("Robert E. Howard: His Life and His Death") by Wolfgang Liebelt (article based on L. Sprague de Camp's "The Miscast Barbarian.")
15. "R. E. Howards hyborsiches Zeitalter" by Rolf Michael (article)
16. "Terra Fantasy" by Eduard Lukschandl (reviews)
17. "So hebt mieb . . . " ("All fled, all done . . .") (poem) Taken from the poem "The House of Caesar" by Viola Garvin.
18. "Robert E. Howard Bibliographie" (uncredited bibliography of German books)
19. Letter to Francis T. Laney dated 22 Jul 1944 by E. Hoffmann Price
20. Indicia

Contributors

Front: Roy G. Krenkel Back: Ernst Vlcek

Cover artist