The Man From Cross Plains: A Centennial Celebration of Two-Gun Bob Howard

Introduction

Notes

Edition and production details

Format details

Hardcover; Trade paperback

1 linked Howard work

• The Ghost with the Silk Hatstory

71 contents entries

1. "Introduction" by Dennis McHaney
2. The Man from Cross Plains (Patches & Two-Gun Bob, circa 1920) • interior artwork by Jim Keegan and Ruth Keegan i · artwork
3. "The Ghost with the Silk Hat"
4. Introduction (The Man from Cross Plains) • essay by Dennis McHaney xiii · introduction
5. Cross Plains Memories
6. Introduction (The Man from Cross Plains) • interior artwork by Tom Foster xiii · artwork
7. "Robert E. Howard on Cross Plains" compiled by Rusty Burke
8. The Ghost with the Silk Hat • interior artwork by Tom Foster 1 · artwork
9. "Cross Plains 1967: Missed Opportunities" by Brian Leno
10. The Ghost with the Silk Hat • [Steve Bender] • (1986) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 1 · novelette
11. "Cross Plains, REHupa and Me" by Bill Cavalier
12. Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains • essay by Randy Burke 65 · essay
13. "Cross Plains Memories" by Rob Roehm
14. Cross Plains 1967: Missed Opportunities • essay by Brian Leno 72 · essay
15. "Cross Plains, Hometown of my Heart" by Rusty Burke
16. Cross Plains, REHupa & Me • essay by Bill Cavalier 77 · essay
17. Our Favorite Barbarian
18. Cross Plains Memories • essay by Rob Roehm 83 · essay
19. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Belit" by Gary Romeo
20. Cross Plains, Hometown of my Heart • essay by Rusty Burke 88 · essay
21. "The Black Stranger and Why I Hate It So: A Derisive Assessment of a Conan Story Way Too Many People Think is Great" by Bill Cavalier
22. What We Talk About When We Talk About Belit • essay by Gary Romeo 105 · essay
23. "A Brief Publishing History of Gnome Press and The Conan Series" by Scotty Henderson
24. The Man from Cross Plains • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel 113 · artwork
25. "The Shadow of the Dragon" by Don Herron
26. The Black Stranger and Why I Hate It So • essay by Bill Cavalier 114 · essay
27. "Fate and Danger" by Larry Richter
28. The Black Stranger and Why I Hate It So • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel 114 · artwork
29. Yarn Spinner
30. A Brief Publishing History of Gnome Press & the Conan Series • essay by Scotty Henderson 127 · essay
31. "Gothic Influences" by Steven Trout
32. The Shadow of the Dragon • essay by Don Herron 145 · essay
33. "Echoes From Bal-Sagoth" by Damon C. Sasser
34. Fate and Danger • essay by Larry Richter 154 · essay
35. "Né O - The French Howard Connection" by Patrice Louinet
36. Fate and Danger • interior artwork by Gary Gianni 155 · artwork
37. "Herbert Klatt: The Fourth Musketeer" by Glenn Lord
38. The Man from Cross Plains • interior artwork by Gary Gianni 159 · artwork
39. "Rope" by Herbert Klatt
40. Gothic Influences • essay by Steve Trout 160 · essay
41. "From Ala to Zarfhaana: The Names of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, A-Z" by Fred Blosser
42. Gothic Influences • interior artwork by Bill Cavalier 161 · artwork
43. "Atavists All? Howard's Boxing Heroes As Throwbacks" by Chris Gruber
44. Gothic Influences • (1935) • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 164 · artwork
45. "A Death By Incarceration?" by Danny Street
46. Echoes from Bal-Sagoth • essay by Damon C. Sasser 167 · essay
47. In Search of Robert E. Howard
48. Echoes from Bal-Sagoth • (1931) • interior artwork by Joseph Doolin 168 · artwork
49. "How to be a Howard Guerilla" by Mark Finn
50. NéO - The French Howard Connection • essay by Patrice Louinet 179 · essay
51. "Hunting Howard" by Rob Roehm
52. NéO - The French Howard Connection • (1979) • interior artwork by Jean-Michel Nicollet 179 · artwork
53. "A Brownwood Memory" by Lee Breakiron
54. NéO - The French Howard Connection [2] • (1985) • interior artwork by Jean-Michel Nicollet 188 · artwork
55. Contributors
56. Herbert Klatt: The Fourth Musketeer • essay by Glenn Lord 189 · essay
57. Corrections to "The Ghost with the Silk Hat"
58. Rope • poem by Herbert Klatt 197 · poem
59. Art Credits
60. From Ala to Zarfhaana: The Names of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, A–Z • essay by Fred Blosser 198 · essay
61. Photo Credits
62. From Ala to Zarfhaana: The Names of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, A–Z • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel 198 · artwork
63. Atavists All? Howard's Boxing Heroes as Throwbacks • essay by Chris Gruber 220 · essay
64. Crowd-Horror • (1929) • short story by Robert E. Howard 227 · story
65. Death by Incarceration? • essay by Danny Street 235 · essay
66. The Man from Cross Plains [2] • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel 243 · artwork
67. How to Be a Howard Guerrilla • essay by Mark Finn 244 · essay
68. Hunting Howard • essay by Rob Roehm 253 · essay
69. A Brownwood Memory • essay by Lee A. Breakiron [as by Lee Breakiron] 276 · essay
70. Contributors • essay by uncredited 277 · essay
71. The Man from Cross Plains [3] • interior artwork by Roy G. Krenkel 277 · artwork

Contributors

Rob Roehm and Dennis McHaney

Cover artist

David Burton, Bill Cavalier, Tom Foster, Ed Emshwiller, Gary Gianni, Jim and Ruth Keegan, Roy G. Krenkel, Jean-Michel Nicollet, Mark Shultz, C. C. Senf

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