The Robert E. Howard Reader
Author | Darrell Schweitzer (editor) |
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Cover artist | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Essays |
Publisher | Wildside Press |
Publication date | 2010 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 212 p. |
ISBN | 978-0-8095-7167-3 |
OCLC | 86167939 |
The Robert E. Howard Reader is a collection of essays on fantasy writer Robert E. Howard and his works, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Originally scheduled for publication in 2007, it was ultimately published in September 2010 by Wildside Press.[1]
Summary[]
The book consists of seventeen essays by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. A few of the pieces were previously published as articles in George H. Scithers's fanzine , the anthologies The Conan Swordbook (1969), The Conan Grimoire (1972), and (1985), and the magazines The New York Review of Science Fiction and Weird Tales The remainder are original to the collection.
Contents[]
- "Introduction" (Darrell Schweitzer)
- "Robert E. Howard: A Texan Master” (Michael Moorcock)
- "The Everlasting Barbarian" ()
- "Robert E. Howard's Fiction" (L. Sprague de Camp)
- "The Art of Robert Ervin Howard" (Poul Anderson)
- "Howard's Style" (Fritz Leiber)
- "What He Wrote and How They Said It" (Robert Weinberg)
- "Barbarism vs. Civilization" (S.T. Joshi)
- "Crash Go the Civilizations" ()
- "Return to Xuthal" ()
- "Howard's Oriental Stories" (Don D'Ammassa)
- "King Kull as a Prototype of Conan" (Darrell Schweitzer)
- "How Pure a Puritan Was Solomon Kane?" (Robert M. Price)
- "Balthus of Cross Plains" (George H. Scithers)
- "Fictionalizing Howard" ()
- "A Journey to Cross Plains" (Howard Waldrop)
- "Weird Tales and the Great Depression" ()
- "After Aquilonia and Having Left Lankhmar: Sword & Sorcery Since the 1980s” (Steve Tompkins)
Reception[]
The book was reviewed by Paul Di Filippo in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2012.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ a b The Robert E. Howard Reader title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
External links[]
Categories:
- 2010 non-fiction books
- Books by Darrell Schweitzer
- Books of literary criticism
- Books about Robert E. Howard
- Essay collections
- Essays about literature
- Literary essay stubs
- Writer book stubs