The second newsletter of 2025. The newsletter contains a synopsis, the first draft and the last 4 pages of the second draft for “The Blood of Belshazzar”. On the cover is a newly discovered photo of Robert E. Howard at 7 years.
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Oct
Oct
The first newsletter of 2025. The newsletter contains part 1 of A Scarlet Citadel. Also, 4 verses.
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Oct
Oct
This is a reprint of the 1931 publication by J. Marvin Hunter. It’s published by Western Publications. Contains “The Ghost of Camp Colorado,” an article by Robert E. Howard.
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Oct
Oct
Edited by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of five fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard’s sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, and Japanese. It was later gathered together with Conan and Conan of Cimmeria into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles (1989).
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Aug
Aug
Meet John Conrad and Professor John Kirowan – Robert E. Howard’s Occult Investigators
Explore the strange and shadowed tales of John Conrad and Professor John Kirowan, two scholars who battle supernatural horrors in the 1930s. From cursed tomes to ancient evils, their stories blend arcane mystery, Lovecraftian dread, and Howard’s gripping prose.
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Apr
Apr
The newsletter contains the synopsis and fourth and latest draft (part 1) of A Scarlet Citadel. Also two letters to Tevis Clyde Smith.
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Apr
Apr
The third newsletter, which is remarkably called fall 2024, but not sent out until late spring 2025. The newsletter contains two King Kull drafts, a couple of verses and a long letter to H.P. Lovecraft.
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Apr
Apr
The Apache Mountain War (Draft 3). A tale about Breckinridge Elkins from 1935. First published in Action Stories, December 1935. There are four known drafts of this story.
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Apr
Apr
The first draft of The Vale of Lost Women is a fantasy short story by Howard and one of his original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian. This draft has never been published.
This brief synopsis outlines the frame of Robert E. Howard’s story The Apache Mountain War, another of the Breckinridge Elkins tales.