I spotted another new book surveying R. E. Howard and his work. As yet only in a May 2018 paperback, it’s simply titled The Robert E. Howard Guide (not to be confused with the similarly-titled Reader). One Amazon review gives the impression that it mainly surveys the history and state of Howard scholarship, while another makes it sound like it mostly surveys the must-read stories and has discussions of the various adaptations. The contents page gives a clearer idea of the wide sweep of the book…

The “Dear Mr Lovecraft” chapter only gives three pages to the letters, but it’s nice that they’re mentioned.

So it looks interesting and a useful introductory overview. But I think I’ll wait for the Kindle ebook. If it had indeed been 200 pages of just briskly surveying all the scholarship on Howard, as one of the reviews seemed to suggest, then it would have been far more enticing for me in paper.