Pirates and Buccaneers, their exploits, adventures, and duels, make a strong mark on many of Robert E. Howard’s stories. The sources for these inspirations are somewhat broad. There are nonfiction books about pirates, their history, their adventures and deaths that Howard read early in his life. Then there is the fiction Howard read that impacted his own stories with swashbuckling duels, high adventure, treasure hunts, and the like. All these pirate histories and fictional works played a pi...| On An Underwood No. 5
This Tuesday (January 19) , my book, Renegades and Rogues: The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard hits the shelves in bookshops around the world. It is the first comprehensive biography of Robert E. Howard published by a major academic press (The University of Texas Press). It is a cumulation of three years of research and writing devoted solely to the book, 18 years of scholarly research and writing (articles and blog posts), and 40 years of being a reader and fan of Howard's work. There...| On An Underwood No. 5
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Readers of classic pulp literature, particularly in the| On An Underwood No. 5
Seabury Quinn—whose longer tales I simply| On An Underwood No. 5
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"Listen while I tell you the secret of the Iron Terror." [ASF 232]| On An Underwood No. 5
Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H. P. Lovecraft by Jason Ray Carney. 197 pages. McFarland & co., 2019. $39.95| On An Underwood No. 5
Black Canaan, from WT June 1936| On An Underwood No. 5
Not every letter from every pulp writer that survives has been published; many remain on the open market and in private hands, coming up for sale from time to time...and they have stories to tell about Robert E. Howard.| On An Underwood No. 5