tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post2598783092276760564..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Forgotten Books: The Book of Robert E. HowardJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-37933222133266094642010-08-23T09:10:09.182-05:002010-08-23T09:10:09.182-05:00Dan,
You're thinking of the great Karl Edward ...Dan,<br />You're thinking of the great Karl Edward Wagner. DARKNESS WEAVES was originally published in a heavily edited version by some small California paperback house, Powell Books, maybe, and then later published with all the other Kane stuff by Warner Books.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-74666549675611070692010-08-23T08:56:22.282-05:002010-08-23T08:56:22.282-05:00I loved the Bran Mak Morn book by Zebra. It may ha...I loved the Bran Mak Morn book by Zebra. It may have been called KINGS IN THE NIGHT. I had most of those zepra editions including Pigeons from Hell. Great stuff, I bought it all used for a dollar or so around '79 or '80. <br /><br />I don't read fantasy anymore. Except for Howard and Moorcock I've found the genre too full of cliches. Except that guy that wrote DARKNESS WEAVES (maybe also published by Zebra).<br /><br />DanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-50788435252562721902010-08-22T00:10:54.314-05:002010-08-22T00:10:54.314-05:00David,
Yeah, it's TIGERS OF THE SEA, I got tha...David,<br />Yeah, it's TIGERS OF THE SEA, I got that title wrong in my post. That's what I get for relying on my memory! I do, however, remember exactly where I bought my copy of that book.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-15950099189291811542010-08-21T23:57:09.804-05:002010-08-21T23:57:09.804-05:00My first one was a hammered near falling apart Zeb...My first one was a hammered near falling apart Zebra copy of Tigers of the Sea, those Cormac tales moved me!nephite blood spartan hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17092519999184585295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-89278014121073213332010-08-20T22:06:56.683-05:002010-08-20T22:06:56.683-05:00For me the shining moment was discovering the firs...For me the shining moment was discovering the first Lancer Conan collection. I had been hearing for the last couple years how this or that book was 'in the tradition of Conan.' And here at long last Conan himself! It was like nirvana. By the time the Zebra books came out REHUPA has been all up in arms about deCamp, a pleasant man I had the honor of sharing of GOH gig with. Zebra was up for printing a lot of unconventional stuff in those days.b When you're playing third string what else can you do. That was a good book, as were most of Howard's stuff. (Just never cared for the boxing stuff.)bebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-11924989113606425382010-08-20T18:05:56.434-05:002010-08-20T18:05:56.434-05:00For me, if memory serves correctly, the intro to H...For me, if memory serves correctly, the intro to Howard came via the two Pyramid paperback anthologies from Weird Tales, then the Robert A. W. Lowndes-edited reprint digest mags published by a company called "Health Knowledge", followed closely by the Lancer Conans and Kull, and some UK budget-paperback reprints of Solomon Kane. Somewhere in there, too, were several multi-fantasy-author anthos and most importantly the big, all-Howard Skull Face Omnibus, a UK edition from Neville Spearman of a book first published by August Derleth's Arkham House. Just listing all of that in brief reminds me of how many "forgotten" books there are I just have to re-read!Chap O'Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04404176810063857291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-74318197875881829872010-08-20T16:12:06.777-05:002010-08-20T16:12:06.777-05:00I scarfed up all those Howard Zebras too. My favor...I scarfed up all those Howard Zebras too. My favorite, though I never read it because I had the Don Grant edition, was <i>A Gent from Bear Creek</i>.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-36258148595813472152010-08-20T13:23:57.808-05:002010-08-20T13:23:57.808-05:00Yes, this was a magical line :-) From Lin Carter t...Yes, this was a magical line :-) From Lin Carter to Poul Anderson, everything was in "the tradition of Conan".<br /><br />The german edition of the Lancer books were also my first introduction to Howard. I think I was 15 or so. Still love his work.AndyDeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12806906746754478064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-24130787503328504972010-08-20T11:39:31.400-05:002010-08-20T11:39:31.400-05:00The boxing and Western collections didn't both...The boxing and Western collections didn't bother me because I discovered that I love those stories, too, but I imagine some readers were upset, all right.<br /><br />For a while there, nearly everything was "In the Tradition of CONAN!", wasn't it?James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-9640464811833086462010-08-20T11:16:50.899-05:002010-08-20T11:16:50.899-05:00For a B-list outfit, Zebra came up with nice packa...For a B-list outfit, Zebra came up with nice packaging for the Howard books, especially SOWERS OF THE THUNDER. I wonder, though, how many readers got ticked off by their bait-and-switch tactic of making the western and boxing collections look (at least without more careful investigation) like fantasy collections. And then there were Zebra's Tros of Samothrace volumes "in the tradition of ROBERT E. HOWARD, creator of CONAN," with Talbot Mundy's byline in real small type.Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-83235278970462345432010-08-20T09:30:11.417-05:002010-08-20T09:30:11.417-05:00Yes, now this was one I sank my teeth into as well...Yes, now this was one I sank my teeth into as well, though I didn't read it until later in my life.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-76237476750031547352010-08-20T09:15:21.879-05:002010-08-20T09:15:21.879-05:00I loved those ZEBRA Howards, too. At one time, I ...I loved those ZEBRA Howards, too. At one time, I bought pretty much everything ZEBRA published. And I liked the Jeff Jones covers as well.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-83618036821491240102010-08-20T08:39:08.862-05:002010-08-20T08:39:08.862-05:00Todd,
Yeah, it was 1976, sometime before August be...Todd,<br />Yeah, it was 1976, sometime before August because I'm pretty sure Livia and I weren't married yet.<br /><br />Bill,<br />Good times indeed.<br /><br />Patti,<br />I've never forgotten checking GATSBY out of the library and having the clerk ask me what class it was for. "It's not for a class," I said. "I just want to read it."James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-59491758644401265502010-08-20T08:33:22.764-05:002010-08-20T08:33:22.764-05:00Great post, James. I nearly did Gatsby myself but ...Great post, James. I nearly did Gatsby myself but I think I actually fell in love with Jay in high school. My other choice was John D. MacDonald.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-53224979085907585552010-08-20T07:08:39.161-05:002010-08-20T07:08:39.161-05:00I bought all those Zebra editions, too. Good time...I bought all those Zebra editions, too. Good times, good times.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-12077040781651412122010-08-20T00:51:55.977-05:002010-08-20T00:51:55.977-05:00Around 1976, then? About one or three years later,...Around 1976, then? About one or three years later, I'd be gathering up my Fritz Leiber and Robert Bloch retrospectives, such as THE BOOK OF FRITZ LEIBER and THE BEST OF ROBERT BLOCH, and finding my own books of gold, to borrow Gene Wolfe's impossibly apt phrase. By 1979, Zebra was, so briefly, publishing Roy Torgeson's adventurous anthologies...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com