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Ramblings on REH (Encore Appearance)
Due to some difficulties, I do not have a Hither Came Conan essay ready to run today. I hope to have one next week. And, work is brutal at the moment. Also, as this post goes live, I am on day three of...
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Hither Came Conan: Deuce Richardson on “Black Colossus”
It’s our second-to-last story essay here at Hither Came Conan. Deuce Richardson, who I’ve talked a lot of REH with, looks at “Black Colossus.” And he digs deep on this one. You absolutely should read...
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Convention Report: Robert E. Howard Days 2019
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) is most famously known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian. But he was a very prolific pulp writer of various genres who created several other memorable characters...
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Hither Came Conan: Patrice Louinet on “Queen of the Black Coast”
Robert E. Howard wrote twenty-one tales of Conan, the mighty-thewed Cimmerian. And with today’s entry from Patrice Louinet, Hither Came Conan has looked at all of them: plus, we tossed in “Wolves...
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Hither Came Conan: Gabe Dybing on “The People of the Black Circle”
Fellow Black Gater Gabe Dybing loaded his entry directly into the website and it fell off my radar. My fault. HERE is the final entry in our Hither Came Conan series, as he tackles “The People of the...
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Rogue Blades author: Robert E. Howard Changed My Life and Continues to...
Recently publisher Rogue Blades Foundation announced the release next year of the title Robert E. Howard Changed My Life. Award-winning author Adrian Cole will appear in that book. Below he offers some...
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Rogue Blades author: Kosru’s Road
The following is an an excerpt from Howard Andrew Jones’ essay for the upcoming book from the Rogue Blades Foundation, Robert E. Howard Changed My Life. I kept missing Conan. He was all over the place...
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D.M. Ritzlin on the Ten Greatest Sword-and-Sorcery Stories by Robert E. Howard
Covers by Brian LeBlanc, Sanjulian, and Margaret Brundage Dave Ritzlin is the mastermind behind DMR books, publishers of the Swords of Steel anthologies, The Infernal Bargain and Other Stories, the...
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Weird Tales Deep Read: July 1936
Margaret Brundage for Red Nails We return to the golden age of Weird Tales to consider the eleven stories in the July 1936 issue. This time around we’re dealing with many familiar authors, led by the...
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By Crom: A Pair of Perrys (Conan)
I have talked about Conan pastiches in a couple of prior Black Gate posts; and I’ve linked to them at the bottom of this one. Here’s something from one of them: From 1982 through 2003, eight authors...
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