I see there’s a new award-winning book series from Fred Blosser, surveying all of Robert E. Howard’s fiction. The first was his collection of essays Savage Scrolls, which was the Winner of the 2018 Atlantean Award from the Robert E. Howard Foundation in June 2018. As well as surveying Conan and his ilk, Savage Scrolls has a chapter each on: Howard’s proto-Conan Crusader stories; the mostly posthumous Francis Xavier Gordon and Kirby O’Donnell desert adventure stories; and a final chapter surveying Howard’s ‘Jungle Horrors’.

This was followed by two new books on Howard’s fiction from Blosser.

1) Ar-I-E’ch and the Spell of Cthulhu: An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard’s Lovecraftian Fiction is obviously a must-buy for Lovecraftians, especially given his Atlantean Award for the first book. The Kindle 10% free-sample of around 38 pages reveals this is a “Revised Second Edition”, the first presumably being the paper edition of 2017.

2) The second book surveys the regional American weird-horror fiction, titled Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengeance: An Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard’s American Horrors.

For those less certain about getting Western Weirdness and Voodoo Vengeance, here are its contents:

Robert E. Howard: Lone Star Conjurer. Wraiths of Ancient Memory: Texas of the Far Past. Shadows Along the Cattle Trails: Frontier Texas. Derricks and Devils: Modern Texas. Home Is Where the Haunt Is: Robert E. Howard’s Corner of Texas. Swamps of Voodoo Vengeance: Indigenous Horrors in the South. Fear in the Piney Woods. Howard’s American Haunts and Monsters… and Where to Find Them. Selected Reading List. Appendix: Conjure Men. Cimmerians, and the comics.