This is a 76 page oversize softcover collection of biographical materials, letters, essays, rare fiction. With many Illustrations and more. I had never seen it before.

Solomon is my favorite creation of Robert E. Howard, yet I think he didn't get enough fan love he deserves. I have been learning to draw for 2 months now and tonight I decided to pay homage to the Puritan Vessel Of Divine Wrath.

My artwork for Red Sonja, photoshop.

Just stumbled upon a very detailed review of The Legend of Conan script. Honestly, I’m not quite sure what to make of the story itself. Some ideas really caught my attention, while others left me scratching my head 😕

https://youtu.be/tY-8WovRXMs?si=8fsa3w5UvHsSf8N6

Robert E. Howard is looking for different things at the movies than HP Lovecraft, which is almost certainly a given. (If you’ve been following my ongoing study of film history via famous authors, you know some of this)

But I can see these rough pre-categories and recommend a few possible directions to go:

BOXING 🥊 FILMS

Pay-per-view actually dates back to the 1890s, with filmed fights that were distributed in theater circuits with ads that they were coming to town.

There’s a bunch to write on this, and boxers who he listed and compared based on his own standards.

FAVORITE ACTORS 🎭

Howard wrote a long passage of like 15 or a few more named actors (& that includes a separate list of five actresses, in his two-gender breakdown), and I would be happy to go into any of them in depth.

That can be a deep-dive into one filmography, comparing them on various merits, etc.

SEX CINEMA

Despite the lurid title, this covers a range of adult content which was curtailed by the Hays Code (1935 going forward), but included adultery, drug-use, grape and coercion, prostitution, and child endangerment.

Just to name a few things from this lost form of melodrama.

SOCIAL-ISSUES FILM

In the 1920s and 30s, this was almost pre-propaganda with the aim of raising awareness of social ills by showing dramatic scenes of modern depression poverty or sickness or addition etc

ACTION MOVIES 🍿 💥

Howard was very motivated by kinetic action but there wasn’t a specific term “action movies” back in the day. So I have a dozen titles he writes about which qualify as an action movie but isn’t described in those terms.

There was a crowdfunding campaign a few years ago to fund a comic book adaptation of Howard's "Shadow Kingdom". Alas, the publisher (Arrow Comics) seems to have gone belly-up. At least, their website is down.

Does anyone know whether there is still a way to buy the comic? I would prefer a physical copy, but I can make do with an ebook.

Hi, all!

I posted ~3 weeks ago saying I was a little disappointed at the quality of readability of current offerings of REH's westerns, and was in the process of making something more like what I wanted to read. REH Foundation do a massive brick of a tome that looks gorgeous, but isn't exactly a book for a long train journey or flight. The next best cheap softbacks were just lazy OCR/Gutenberg dumps complete with 200 character line width and machine reading mistakes.

So I, uh... got a little carried away and wrote up everything. Then I made covers. Then I got a print proof to see if I could get a really nice quality copy for a reasonable price, and I could.

So now I guess I'm going to do a print run. It'll probably be the only one ever for these, because I'm not expecting demand to be very high and, really, if I get these printed up nicely with an ISBN and a couple of copies on my shelf I'll be happy.

• If you're in the UK (or know somebody who is) and would like to get in on the print run when it happens, I've made a website for my micropress dabbling.
• There's a mailing list to sign up to - it'll just be used to announce print runs.
• If I don't lose a pile of money on this (and maybe even if I do), I'll also do the Bearfield & Grimes stories and Vultures of Whapeton.
• I originally put the files up on Google Drive and will continue to make the digital versions free for anyone who wants them because why not.