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Post by deuce on Jul 8, 2016 11:47:56 GMT -5
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Post by Von K on Jul 31, 2016 15:16:47 GMT -5
Thanks Deuce, very interesting...
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Post by deuce on Apr 19, 2017 11:37:03 GMT -5
"Farnsworth [Wright] tells me that for some esoteric reason known only to the radio people, Station WTAM has ceased to dramatize stories from Weird Tales."
-- Robert E. Howard to Tevis Clyde Smith, Dec 1930, Collected Letters: Volume 2, p.116
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Post by deuce on May 5, 2017 6:38:19 GMT -5
The covers of every issue of Weird Tales that an REH yarn appeared in: howardworks.com/wtcover1.htmJust click on the covers to get the full info.  |
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Post by deuce on Jul 11, 2017 18:33:07 GMT -5
"Man has realized since the time he sprawled, a silian of the primal beaches, that there are things beyond his ken; many he has attained; far, far more he only guesses. The alchemists of the Middle Ages knew, and they went insane, for in their wild search for gold, their minds lost themselves in the mazes of a world unknown to them. How much of the Initiates knew, none will know for many a thousand years, for by some wild freak of Destiny, Time turned back centuries, and the Kali Yug, the Ages of Darkness set in; and the ancient knowledge was forgotten. But there are dim islands and continents in the great shadowy sea that is the human soul, and sometimes they are illumined by some master-pen such as Lovecraft’s, and one almost remembers things forgotten through the shifting sea-fogs of the centuries. Mr. Lovecraft has reached an arm out into the unknown and a lesser mind than his might hesitate; but I look for even greater wonders from his pen and look forward with anticipation to another of his tales. […] I merely wished to congratulate you on your magazine, and make a comment or two on Mr. Lovecraft, but somehow I have gotten off onto my ideas and theories." -- Robert E. Howard to Weird Tales, Jan 1929  |
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Post by deuce on Oct 18, 2017 10:14:09 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 27, 2017 9:22:42 GMT -5
"I notice that practically all of your serials contain a certain amount of love interest; is this a requirement and are you in the market for serials, say of the length of two issues?"
-- REH to Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales
21 August 1925
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Post by bobbyderie on May 20, 2018 11:17:18 GMT -5
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Post by themirrorthief on Jun 30, 2018 11:01:27 GMT -5
I have read tons of pulp and there are many writers who turned out some very excellent stories indeed. What set Howard apart was the consistent excellence in almost every story. None of the others could maintain that level of superior writing. Maybe that is part of the reason that Howard killed himself...maybe he just burned out and the well ran dry?
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