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Howard Days Coming Soon!
It's just two short months until to the 2007 Howard Days events (June 7 - June
9) in Cross Plains, Texas. The official festivities begin on the eighth, but a
special day trip is planned for the seventh. Here is the schedule as of today:
Thursday, June 7 (pre-festival tour)
Leo Grin hosts a caravan trip to some of Howard’s old hangouts — Fort
McKavett, Enchanted Rock State Park, Fredericksburg and all the great Texas
countryside in between those locales. The trekkers will leave Jean’s Feed
Barn after a heart-stopping breakfast and will return to Brownwood for a late
supper.
Friday, June 8
9:00 - 4:00: Howard House Museum open for tours. Closed for lunch.
9:00 - 4:00: Postal Cancellation at downtown Post Office
10:00 - 500: Public Library downtown open. Original manuscripts available for
viewing, copies for sale
10:30 - 12:00 Walking and bus tours, free time
12:00 Lunch in the pavilion - provided by Project Pride
2:00 Panel: “Black Rivers and Red Nails: The Art of Greg Manchess,” hosted
by Craig Miller. Greg Manchess is this year's Guest of Honor.
3:00 Panel: “Shadow Kingdoms: Exploring Kull’s Thurian Age,” hosted by Larry
“Deuce” Richardson
4:00 - 6:30 Dealer’s Room open for browsing adjacent to dinner site
Silent Auction available for browsing and bidding at dinner
6:30 Celebration dinner - fresh cooked, piping hot, mouth watering catfish
and all the trimmings
Silent Auction ends right after dinner
9:00 The Cimmerian Awards, hosted by Leo Grin at Pavilion
Saturday, June 9
9:00 - 4:00 Howard House Museum open for tours (closed for lunch)
Annual Barbarian Festival downtown - a small town specialty: parade, car
show, tractor show, live music, crafts, lots of food vendors
12:30 Kane film presented by Derek Stallings
1:00 Panel: “Desert Adventurers: El Borak, Kirby O’Donnell and other
Gunslingers of the Wild East,” hosted by Dave Hardy
2:00 Panel: “Ringside Tales: The Amazing Stories Behind Howard’s Favorite
Boxers,” hosted by Chris Gruber
3:00 - 5:00 Free Time
5:00 - 8:00 “Sunset BBQ at Caddo Peak,” hosted by the Middleton Family
-- Posted by Damon C. Sasser on April 4, 2007
The Collected Letters
The REH Foundation is publishing The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard.
This three-volume, limited-edition series collects all the known letters written
by REH. The collection will include dozens of previously unpublished letters
and hundreds of poems not found in any other collection.
The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard reveal a side of Howard’s
personality that readers of his fiction might not suspect existed. Full of
humor, philosophical musings, travelogue, historical sketches, and opinions
on contemporary politics and events — local, national, and international —
Howard's letters provide important insight into the life and times of one of
the most influential pulp-era writers of the twentieth century.
This three-volume set collects more than 330 letters, from the early ones to
his Texas friends, most notably Tevis Clyde Smith, and continuing through
correspondence with fellow writers Clark Ashton Smith, E. Hoffmann Price,
and others. Also included are Howard’s letters to H. P. Lovecraft, which
constitute one of the most intriguing correspondence cycles in the history of
Fantasy fiction.
Each volume will be printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity
of 300 copies, each individually numbered. Edited by Rob Roehm, with cover
design and artwork by Jim and Ruth Keegan.
Volume 1, covering the years 1923-1929, is now available for pre-ordering.
-- Posted by Damon C. Sasser on April 11, 2007
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New Almuric Trade Paperback Coming
Paizo Publishing will be publishing a new edition of Robert E. Howard's sword
and planet classic, Almuric. Howard’s Almuric is a savage planet of
crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world
comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow
the terrible devils that enslave Almuric, but to do so he must first defeat the
inner demons that forced him to abandon Earth. Filled with vile beasts and
thrilling adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Otis Adelbert
Kline, Almuric is one of Howard’s few novels, and an excellent yarn from one
of America’s most distinct literary voices. Pre-orders are being taken at the
Paizo website.
List of Contents for The Best of Robert E. Howard,
Volume One
Rusty Burke recently annouced the stories and poems included in Volume
One, Crimson Shadows. Verse is in shown in italics:
The Shadow Kingdom
The Ghost Kings
The Curse of the Golden Skull
Red Shadows
The One Black Stain
The Dark Man
The Marching Song of Connacht
Kings of the Night
Recompense
The Black Stone
The Song of a Mad Minstrel
The Fightin’est Pair
The Grey God Passes
The Song of the Last Briton
Worms of the Earth
An Echo from the Iron Harp
Lord of the Dead
Untitled: ‘You have built a world of paper and wood’
“For the Love of Barbara Allen”
The Tide
The Valley of the Worm
The Dust Dance: Selections, Version II
The People of the Black Circle
Beyond the Black River
A Word from the Outer Dark
Hawk of the Hills
Sharp’s Gun Serenade
Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die
Also included will be an essay on Howard by Charles Hoffman, Rusty Burke's
A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard (with a few modifications based on
more recent findings or conclusions), and Notes on the Texts. Unlike other
Wandering Star/Del Rey books, there will be no “marginalia” such as
fragments, drafts, only complete stories an poems.
The artwork for these volumes is by Jim and Ruth Keegan, illustrators and
writers of the superb The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob comic strip now
appearing in all of Dark Horse’s Conan books.
The book will be available on July 31st and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.
com.
In a related note, the cover for Volume Two, Grim Lands, to be published
November 27th, has just been posted at Amazon.com.
-- Posted by Damon C. Sasser on April 18, 2007
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New Imaro Book from Night Shade
Charles Saunders, a regular contributor to Two-Gun Raconteur and
Chronicler of Cross Plains, recently updated his second Imaro book, The
Quest for Cush. The book is available from Night Shade or your favorite
bookseller. Here are the details:
Imaro 2: The Quest For Cush is the second book in Charles Saunders' series
of African inspired heroic fantasy. It begins with the reunion of Imaro, and his
kidnapped lover Tanisha, who has been taken to the ruined City of Madness.
With the help of their new found friend, Pomphis, a Pygmay from the eastern
forests of Nyumbani, they learn of the sorcerous forces that may have been
behind the dark wizard that destroyed Imaro's youth.
The trio go to Mavindi, the port capital of the Eastern Coastal kingdom of
Azania, in search of the legendary Kingdom of Cush, where Imaro hopes to
find answers to the questions that have plagued his life. Who is he? Who
was his father, and why was he seemingly cursed, and hounded from birth by
forces beyond his control.
This volume further expands the world of Nyumbani, detailing the eastern
coastal kingdoms, and also expands the spiritual side of the world, revealing
even more of the fantastic forces that are in play in the world of Nyumbani,
and their relationship to Imaro.
Cover art by Vince Evans.
-- Posted by Damon C. Sasser on April 25,2007
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