In his writing, Robert E. Howard made frequent use of subjects from history and folklore, especially — in keeping with his Southern heritage and Texas upbringing — that of both the American Southwest, and the Deep South. This includes elements from the African-American folk magic practices popularly known as conjure (or hoodoo) and voodoo, which turn up to create fear and atmosphere in various tales of horror and “weird mystery,” most famously in “Black Canaan” and “Pigeons from Hell.”
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Feb
Feb
Conan simply grew up in my mind a few years ago when I was stopping in a little border town on the lower Rio Grande. I did not create him by any conscious process. He simply stalked full grown out of oblivion and set me at work recording the saga of his adventures.
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Jan
Jan
Article by Glenn Lord; “The Writing Game”. A history of REH’s jobs & sales of stories & poems to pulp markets first published in REH: Lone Star Fictioneer, Vol. 1, #1 (ed. Byron L. Roark; Nemedian Chronicles, Kansas City, Kan., spring, 1975)
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Dec
Dec
Non–Howard material – written by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan of the Isles is a fantasy novel by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring Robert E. Howard’s sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
It was first published October 1968 in paperback by Lancer Books, and reprinted in July 1970, 1972, and May 1973; publication was then taken over by Ace Books, which reprinted the novel in May 1977, May 1979, April 1980, July 1981, April 1982, November 1982, November 1983, June 1984, September 1986, February 1991, and May 1994. The first British edition was published in paperback by Sphere Books in December 1974 a number of times since by various publishers It has also been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.
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Dec
Dec
Edited by L. Sprague de Camp
Conan the Wanderer is a 1968 collection of four fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, featuring Howard’s sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines. The book has been reprinted a number of times by various publishers and has also been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish and Italian. It was later gathered together with Conan the Adventurer and Conan the Buccaneer into the omnibus collection The Conan Chronicles 2 (1990).
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Oct
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from 1977. Issue 3 contains the poem ‘Roar, Silver Trumpets’.
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Oct
Contains the poem ‘Moon Mockery’ by Robert E. Howard. The poem is not illustrated. Editor: Farnsworth Wright.
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Oct
Contains the poem ‘Crete’ by Robert E. Howard. The poem is not illustrated. Editor: Farnsworth Wright.
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Oct
Contains the poem ‘The Harp of Alfred’ by Robert E. Howard. Illustrated by Hugh Rankin.. Editor: Farnsworth Wright.