On December 26, 2014 the first of my eBook LitCrit MegaPacks dropped into the marketplace. Collecting in one place for the first time the critical anthologies The Dark Barbarian (1984) and the follow-up from twenty years later, The Barbaric Triumph (2004).
The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All, then, was the thirtieth anniversary publication in that symbolic run of Robert E. Howard criticism, adding enough material to fill up a third actual book.
For the tenth anniversary of Towers Over All — or would it be more importantly the fortieth anniversary of The Dark Barbarian? — we return with a distinct second edition.
Behind the jazzed-up cover the text has been scoured, resulting in some changes and corrections. Updated formatting optimizes the experience for the newest eBook readers. And I close it out with an all-new afterword — “Barbaric Decad” — bringing the saga up-to-date, for the moment.
