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Post by deuce on Feb 18, 2016 13:37:57 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 18, 2016 13:39:52 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2016 16:59:56 GMT -5
Greg Staples' excellent illo for The Valley of the Lost, my favorite Weird Western yarn from REH. BTW, here are most of Howard's Weird Westerns, as listed at Howard Works: howardworks.com/subject.htm#southwest
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Post by deuce on Mar 4, 2016 20:52:13 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 20, 2016 23:11:09 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 1, 2016 8:38:28 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 1, 2017 21:50:14 GMT -5
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Post by charleshelm on Sept 29, 2019 9:55:25 GMT -5
So I watched "Bily the Kid Versus Dracula" yesterday and wrote up a review for my Instagram, calling it a vampire western crossover...and it hit me...REH was there first. So I mentioned that in the Insta post.
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Post by Char-Vell on Oct 1, 2019 10:13:08 GMT -5
I nominate Steve Brill for Biggest A-hole in a Short Story.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 1:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by Char-Vell on Mar 6, 2020 7:32:15 GMT -5
I listened to this on my way in this morning!
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Post by keith on Mar 8, 2020 8:43:11 GMT -5
Pretty hard to say which is my unequivocal favourite among REH's weird western stories. "The Horror From the Mound" is great and "The Valley of the Lost" is powerful, but I'm for "Old Garfield's Heart." Ghost man is a major reason, the atmospheric references to early Indian fighting another, and the device of the supernatural heart that saved Garfield's life but has to be given back at last is really powerful. REH writes about it magnificently.
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Post by zarono on Mar 9, 2020 7:58:29 GMT -5
Pretty hard to say which is my unequivocal favourite among REH's weird western stories. "The Horror From the Mound" is great and "The Valley of the Lost" is powerful, but I'm for "Old Garfield's Heart." Ghost man is a major reason, the atmospheric references to early Indian fighting another, and the device of the supernatural heart that saved Garfield's life but has to be given back at last is really powerful. REH writes about it magnificently. Right on Keith, I love Horror "The From the Mound" for the weird vampire and "The Valley of the Lost" for the eldritch history (also the transition in the story from traditional western to outright horror is so well done) but "Old Garfield's Heart" is my favorite for the atmosphere. "The Dead Remember" is great too, creepy little story and I like the epistolary format.
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Post by finarvyn on Apr 4, 2020 8:07:00 GMT -5
How could I have not commented on this thread before? I love REH's western stories, but his weird west stories are the best of the lot. I would love to see someone put together a RPG sourcebook for this stuff.
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Post by kross on Apr 4, 2020 11:10:21 GMT -5
How could I have not commented on this thread before? I love REH's western stories, but his weird west stories are the best of the lot. I would love to see someone put together a RPG sourcebook for this stuff. Well, my Down Darker Trails setting book for Call of Cthulhu was inspired by Howard's weird westerns. The book opens with a quote from "The Valley of the Lost", and REH gets a lot of coverage in the Bibliography. The tone of the book was explicitly intended to be more pulp-action oriented a la REH than the usual cosmic horror of HPL. Chaosium once mentioned that they were working on a Worlds of Robert E. Howard game or supplement of some kind, but that's been MANY years ago, and I think they might have been joking. But who knows?
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