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Tag Archives: The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All
Rediscovered: Famous Today
Robert E. Howard was born 120 years ago today. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. Certainly you’ve heard mention of his character Conan — the Cimmerian, the barbarian, etc. I know today’s date well, but began to get hints it was … Continue reading →
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Tagged Doc Howard, Famous Someday, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All
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Rediscovered: 10th Anniversary for the Robert E. Howard LitCrit MegaPack
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 … Continue reading →
Rediscovered: Lin Carter Provides a Footnote (of Sorts) to “Conan vs. Conantics”
In recent months I’ve been having a fast and furious round of email discussions with Kevin Cook, and I managed to turn him into another huge fan of the excellent San Francisco mystery The Man With My Face by Samuel … Continue reading →
Posted in Lit, REH
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Tagged "Conan vs. Conantics", Bran Mak Morn, Karl Edward Wagner, Kevin Cook, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Samuel W. Taylor, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All
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Smackdown: The Trusty Index vs. the “Fully Tooled” eBook!
Besides me and publisher Leo Grin, the only guy who even suspected there was a Big Secret Project underway in the last months of 2014 was John Haefele, and that’s only because I kept teasing him with little morsels of information and really vague hints — … Continue reading →
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Tagged Book Collecting, Clark Ashton Smith, John D. Haefele, Leo Grin, Robert Bloch, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All
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Two-Gun Bob: The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All
The Big Secret Project I mentioned the other day has jumped to life on Amazon — The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All, the first ever “Robert E. Howard LitCrit MegaPack” — a Kindle eBook which collects The Dark Barbarian … Continue reading →
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Tagged George RR Martin, Harry Potter, John D. Haefele, Kindle, The Cimmerian Press, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All, Tolkien
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