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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 13:55:29 GMT -5
This is another cool anthology from a well-know name - Karl Edward Wagner. I've had this raggedy thing in my collection for awhile. I believe I purchased it primarily for the unusually flush collection of Nictzin Dyalhis whose works I'm attempting to assemble to completion. This is not the thread to discuss it, however there is an excellent treatise on what little is known of Dyalhis in this book by Sam Moskowitz as reprinted by Wagner. Anyway, here are more words of praise for our beloved REH... Thanks for the intros ChrisLAdams.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 9, 2017 14:04:25 GMT -5
Thanks for the intros ChrisLAdams. Absolutely! \m/
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Post by deuce on Feb 9, 2017 14:14:31 GMT -5
Hey Chris! Thanks so much for your posts! Above and beyond. A friend gave me that edition of Road of Azrael just a couple days before you posted. I hadn't got around to transcribing it, but I wouldn't have done the whole thing, so that works out better anyhow. Those "Echoes of Valor" anthologies are goldmines of obscure info, since KEW was a scholar of the weird as much as he was an author. I lost all my copies in the Flood, unfortunately. Sir Christopher was certainly an aficionado of fantasy and the weird. His comments are quite cogent. He may have been the first to spot the connections between Dracula and The Black Stone. Anyway, thanks for clearing up my wonderings about what Mr. Lee actually had to say. I speculated about all that almost exactly 7yrs ago and never got around to following it up. leogrin.com/CimmerianBlog/christopher-lee-metal-god-and-so-much-more/
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 9, 2017 15:33:22 GMT -5
Hey Chris! Thanks so much for your posts! Above and beyond. A friend gave me that edition of Road of Azrael just a couple days before you posted. I hadn't got around to transcribing it, but I wouldn't have done the whole thing, so that works out better anyhow. Those "Echoes of Valor anthologies are goldmines of obscure info, since KEW was a scholar of the weird as much as he was an author. I lost all my copies in the Flood, unfortunately. Sir Christopher was certainly an aficionado of fantasy and the weird. His comments are quite cogent. He may have been the first to spot the connections between Dracula and The Black Stone. Anyway, thanks for clearing up my wonderings about what Mr. Lee actually had to say. I speculated about all that almost exactly 7yrs ago and never got around to following it up. leogrin.com/CimmerianBlog/christopher-lee-metal-god-and-so-much-more/That's an interesting post on Lee - wish I'd been part of TC! And glad to hear you got a copy of Azrael - that's crucial material, man. I'm very happy to post anything I've got to contribute to this forum - I'm happy I'm here, just regretful I didn't discover it sooner :/
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Post by emerald on Feb 10, 2017 10:24:35 GMT -5
I love anthologies, but never heard of this one. A quick glimpse at the contents perked my interest, naturally. Found a copy on AbeBooks for $3 w/ a very commendable $6 shipping rate. I just got this in and wished to share Mr. Lee's words as requested. This is a great addition to my anthology collection, thanks for making me aware of it! Apologies for the squirrly looking text - I was holding the pages open and taking pictures and trying to keep my fingers out of the frame. Oh,and since it is in the same anthology I added Mr Lee's comments on CAS - if that is not needed/wanted in this thread, I can delete it. Many thanks for the chance to read Lee's introduction. Great to see his enthusiasm for weird fiction, especially our friends from Weird Tales, but I found his admiring words about Boris Karloff to be the real standout. A fine salute from one icon to another.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Feb 10, 2017 10:33:55 GMT -5
Many thanks for the chance to read Lee's introduction. Great to see his enthusiasm for weird fiction, especially our friends from Weird Tales, but I found his admiring words about Boris Karloff to be the real standout. A fine salute from one icon to another. You're very welcome. I, too, really enjoyed all of his introduction. I thought it interesting how many intriguing people of note he met. That's one of the perks of affluency I suppose - it opens doors and opportunities. BTW - I'm with Mr. Lee on that scene with the spider on his shoulder - I'd of been wiggin' out, dudes. I've almost drowned twice, been sky-diving, two roll-over wrecks, been shot (by ricochet!) - whole lot less scary than a huge spider :/
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Post by deuce on Feb 10, 2017 18:51:00 GMT -5
Larry Correia is a wildly successful (and Hugo-nominated) sci-fi/fantasy author. From Larry Correia's blog post: (show old-timey picture of HP Lovecraft, show old-timey picture of Robert E. Howard, show old-timey picture of Robert E. Howard punching out a Tyrannosaurs Rex while a woman in a chainmail bikini holds onto his leg)
Even though those guys are totally freaking awesome, and Conan the Barbarian is a thousand times more awesome than the Great Gatsby, you wouldn’t know it by listening to literary snobs.Context is an apparent kerfuffle over diversity in SF/Fantasy. Quote is from Larry Correia regarding a woman who said... “Larry Correia’s macho focused urban fantasy with a liberal dose of gun porn is message fic”
That sound you heard was the point whooshing obliviously past some minor blogger’s head, because I said in the article that she Skimmed Until Offended that we all can put message in, but we can only usually pull it off when we do story and entertainment first. Duh.
I do think she meant that as an insult. Personally, I think it would make a good cover quote. That’s sort of like that one reviewer who tried to insult me by saying that I was a “modern day Robert E. Howard.” Sweet. But that tells you something about someone when they consider comparing you to the guy who invented Conan and Solomon Kane an insult.Another quote: In the interest of full disclosure, my writing has been influenced by HP Lovecraft, because if you don’t like giant sky squids, there is something fundamentally wrong with you. I also share a birthday with Lovecraft and Ron Paul (yes, I know, this explains a lot). In actuality I’m more of a Robert E. Howard fan than a Lovecraft fan. I once got a negative review that said “though Correia uses some Lovecraftian themes, he is more of a modern Robert E. Howard” and he meant it as an insult. Personally, I wanted to use that as a cover blurb.Another quote from Mr. Correia:
“The one good thing about being forced to read The Great Gatsby was that I discovered Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft afterwards, because I figured that not everybody from that time frame could have been that incredibly annoying."
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Post by Von K on Feb 15, 2017 12:44:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the awesome scans Chris, and props to Deuce for the source references.
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Post by Von K on Feb 15, 2017 16:22:09 GMT -5
John Buscema on being Marvel's first-choice Conan artist:
And another from an interview with Roy Thomas:
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Post by Von K on Feb 15, 2017 16:24:41 GMT -5
From an interview with Storyteller & Conan Artist: BWS [Barry Windsor Smith]
Conducted by Jon B. Cooke
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Post by deuce on Feb 21, 2017 14:36:46 GMT -5
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Post by Von K on Apr 15, 2017 13:14:42 GMT -5
Don't think I've seen these posted before:
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Post by Von K on Apr 15, 2017 20:08:15 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 1:55:13 GMT -5
'Nowhere can the genius and vitality of Robert E. Howard be seen more than in his poetry. Brooding, stark, and elegant as the prehuman civilizations and jungle-choked fastness he created for his fiction, Howard's verse shows yet another side of this complex writer - a man compelled to sing of arms and men while the universe darkens.
It is superficial to say that his main talent lies only in the telling of memorable tales. Howard's artistic roots extend way back, past the English minstrels and French Balladeers praising their beloved forest and field, beyond those shadowy creators of somber lay and Edda, to the singers of ancient Greece and their stories of godly rivalry and human foible. He has at once continued this tradition and made it uniquely his own, melding old with new as he sings of solitary heroes battling beneath hellish suns or hoboes facing another blear-eyed day on the rails. deceptively rough-hewn, Howard's verse shines and sparkles with subtle nuances that linger in the mind.
You will find the best of Robert E. Howard's poetry in this volume; it runs the gamut from the melancholy narrative drive of 'Solomon Kane's Homecoming' to the mystic erotism of 'The Heart of the Sea's Desire.' We hope you will enjoy the work of this modern-day 'Singer of the Mist'; you will certainly remember it.'Foreward by John Pocsik, from Night Images: A Book of Fantasy Verse by Robert E. Howard, Morning Star, 1976.
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Post by deuce on Jul 22, 2017 15:07:20 GMT -5
Praise from author, Bob Freeman: authorbobfreeman.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/a-thief-a-reaver-a-slayer/ Conan is as much a part of me as the blood that runs through my veins. I cut my teeth on Howard, having picked up one of the Ace paperbacks back in 1975 at the tender age of nine years old. First story I read was “A Witch Shall Be Born”. I dare them to make that movie, gods damn it.
-- Bob Freeman
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