Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind

Introduction

Notes

Edition and production details

Format details

Trade paperback

14 linked Howard works

• Bookmen and Booksstory
• Double Crossstory
• Editorial (1)story
• L'envoi (1, "Live like a wolf then")verse
• Puritansstory
• Sistersstory
• Some People Who Have had Influence Over Mestory
• Sordid Sayings of a Simple Sapstory
• Sporting Pagestory
• The Devil's Woodchopperstory
• The Door to the Gardenstory
• The Great Munney Ringstory
• Twentieth Century Slave Tradestory
• Vengeance of a Womanstory

79 contents entries

1. "Introduction" by Ben Szumskyj
2. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind • interior artwork by Gary Gianni 4 · artwork
3. "An Introduction to the Life and Works of Robert E. Howard" by Joe Marek
4. Introduction (Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind) • essay by Benjamin Szumskyj [as by Ben Szumskyj] 6 · introduction
5. "The Door to the Garden"
6. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (In the Service of Belit: Battle Scarred) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 6 · artwork
7. "A Short History of the Conan Typescripts" by Patrice Louinet
8. An Introduction to the Life and Works of Robert E. Howard • essay by Joe Marek 8 · introduction
9. "The Devil's Woodchopper " (fragment)
10. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (REH) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 8 · artwork
11. "Pages from As the Poet Says" by Rusty Burke
12. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 9 · artwork
13. "Three Autobiographical Letters " To ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 20 July 1929 ("I was born about twenty-three …") To Farnsworth Wright, circa June/July 1931 ("In your last letter you asked me to give you …") To Wilfred Branch Talman, circa September 1931 ("Thank you very much for the letter you wrote …")
14. An Untitled Story ("The drowsy ticking of my Dutch clock...") • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of Door to the Garden 1977) 10 · story
15. "And in This Corner…hailing from Nazareth…-or-what the Eddas Don’t Tell You" by Scott Sheaffer
16. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind ("Shouldn't have read that one aloud...") • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 11 · artwork
17. "Double Cross "
18. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (REH) [2] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 12 · artwork
19. "Am-Ra: Howard’s Lost Hero" by Ben Szumskyj
20. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind • interior artwork by Mark Schultz 15 · artwork
21. "Introduction to ‘The Right Hook’" by Tom Munnerlyn
22. A Short History of the Conan Typescripts • essay by Patrice Louinet 16 · essay
23. "The Right Hook No. 1 Vol. 1 "
24. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Conan Two Thousand) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 17 · artwork
25. "Editorial" (1)
26. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [2] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 19 · artwork
27. "Twentieth Century Slave Trade"
28. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Solomon Kane) • interior artwork by Gary Gianni 20 · artwork
29. "The Great Munney Ring" (article)
30. The Devil's Woodchopper • short fiction by Robert E. Howard 21 · story
31. "Bookmen and Books" (article)
32. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Border Kingdom Mead Hall) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 22 · artwork
33. "Sisters" (article)
34. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [3] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 23 · artwork
35. "Sporting Page" (article)
36. Pages from "As the Poet Says—" • essay by Rusty Burke and Leo Grin 24 · essay
37. "Puritans" (article)
38. Three Autobiographical Letters • essay by Robert E. Howard 27 · essay
39. "Vengeance of a Woman"
40. Letter to Argosy All-Story Weekly • (1929) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To "Argosy All-Story Weekly", ca. Spring 1929 ("I was born in Texas about...") 2007) 27 · essay
41. "Sordid Sayings of a Simple Sap"
42. Letter to Farnsworth Wright, ca. June / July 1931 ("In your last letter you asked me...") • [Letters to Farnsworth Wright] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter: Robert E. Howard to Farnsworth Wright, circa 1931 ("In your last letter you asked me...") 1975) 27 · essay
43. "L'Envoi" (1, poem)
44. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Dark Man Near the End) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 29 · artwork
45. "An Interview with Glenn Lord" by Joe Marek
46. Letter to Wilfred Blanch Talman, ca. September 1931 ("Dear Mr. Talman: / Thank you very much for the letter you wrote...") • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to William Blanch Talman, circa September 1931 ("Dear Mr. Talman: / Thank you very much for the letter...") 1975) 30 · essay
47. "Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me "
48. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Breck in Deep Concentration) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 31 · artwork
49. "Afterword" by Ben Szumskyj
50. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Cross Plains Oilfield Roustabout) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 32 · artwork
51. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Conan) • interior artwork by Mark Schultz 33 · artwork
52. And in This Corner ... Hailing from Nazareth ... —or— What the Eddas Don't Tell You • essay by Scott Sheaffer 34 · essay
53. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Cross Plains / Hyboria: Robert E. Howard) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 35 · artwork
54. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [4] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 37 · artwork
55. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [5] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 39 · artwork
56. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [6] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 41 · artwork
57. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [7] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 43 · artwork
58. Double Cross • [Ace Jessel] • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of Double-Cross 1983) 45 · story
59. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind ("Battling Bob" Howard) • interior artwork by Bill Cavalier and Rick McCollum 45 · artwork
60. Double Cross • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 49 · artwork
61. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Bob of Acheron) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 50 · artwork
62. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Pow! Right in the Kisser!) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 52 · artwork
63. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Bran Mak Morn) • interior artwork by Gary Gianni 55 · artwork
64. Am-Ra: Howard's Lost Hero • essay by Benjamin Szumskyj [as by Ben Szumskyj] 56 · essay
65. Am-Ra: Howard's Lost Hero • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 57 · artwork
66. The Right Hook, No. 1 Vol. 1: Introduction • essay by Tom Munnerlyn 59 · introduction
67. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Following the Path) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 59 · artwork
68. The Right Hook, No. 1 Vol. 1 • essay by Robert E. Howard "Twentieth Century Slave Trade" "The Great Munney Ring" (article) "Bookmen and Books" (article) "Sisters" (article) "Sporting Page" (article) "Puritans" (article) "Vengeance of a Woman" "Sordid Sayings of a Simple Sap" "L'Envoi" (1, “Live like a wolf then”) (poem) 60 · essay
69. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [2] • interior artwork by Mark Schultz 66 · artwork
70. An Interview with Glenn Lord • interview of Glenn Lord • interview by Joe Marek 67
71. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [8] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 68 · artwork
72. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Three Old Men 1972) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 70 · artwork
73. Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me • (1945) • essay by Robert E. Howard 71 · essay
74. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Solomon Kane) [2] • interior artwork by Gary Gianni 72 · artwork
75. Afterword (Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind) • essay by Benjamin Szumskyj [as by Ben Szumskyj] 73 · essay
76. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Bent, Bloody, Crooked God) • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 73 · artwork
77. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind [8] • interior artwork by Rick McCollum 74 · artwork
78. Credits and Copyrights (Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind) • essay by uncredited 75 · essay
79. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Bob and Patch) • interior artwork by David Burton bc · artwork

Contributors

Rick Cortes

Cover artist

Profusely illustrated by Gary Gianni, Rick Cortes, Mark Schultz, Rick McCollum, David Burton

Illustrator

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