Valeria is a pirate and adventuress (a member of The Red Brotherhood of pirates) in the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories. She appears in Robert E. Howard’s Conan novella “Red Nails”, serialized in Weird Tales 1. part in Weird Tales July, August/September and October, 1936. This was the last Conan story written by Howard, and published posthumously.
Periodical or fanzine from 1974 containing Robert E. Howards Golden Hope Christmas. Editor Wayne Warfield.
The American illustrator and artist with the name of Roy Gerald Krenkel is probably a household name for most Robert E. Howard fans. He is often referred to as the father of heroic fantasy. Very often he is included in the list of some of the best known and most influential fantasy artists like J. Allen St. John and Frank Frazetta.
Facsimile copy of Oriental Stories #4 – #6
The second of three massive hardcover facsimile volumes totaling more than 1200 pages with the complete contents from the original run of ORIENTAL STORIES. All the stories & illustrations. All the verse. Plus letters to the editor. Scanned right from the original pulp pages. No editing. No reset text.
“Hawks of Outremer” is illustrated by Joseph Doolin
“The Blood of Bellshazzar” is illustrated
by Joseph Doolin
Facsimile copy of Oriental Stories #1 – #3
The first of three massive hardcover facsimile volumes totaling more than 1200 pages with the complete contents from the original run of ORIENTAL STORIES. All the stories & illustrations. All the verse. Plus letters to the editor. Scanned right from the original pulp pages. No editing. No reset text.
“The Voice of El-Lil” is illustrated by Donald von Gelb
“Red Blades of Black Cathay” is illustrated by Joseph Doolin
By this Axe I Rule! Kull of Valusia.
Front cover, back cover and inside back cover are photos of the refurbished Howard House in Cross Plains, TX.
Howard items are facsimiles of typescripts, except for “The Nut’s Shell”, which is a facsimile of a hand-written manuscript, plus a typed copy.
The two poetry variants are typing practice by Howard.
Hand-made chapbook with the first appearance of five of Robert E. Howards poems.
Hand-made chapbook with the first apperance of the poem ‘A Song of the Naked Lands’.
Hand-made chapbook with the first apperance of the poem ‘Black Dawn’.
Opening line: “A black moon nailed against a sullen dawn / The gods have said: “Life is a mystic shrine.” / Mohammed, Buddha, Moses, Satan, Thor! / They sell brown men for gold in Zanzibar / Break down the world and mold it once again!”.
