tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post4258458519824759167..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Classic Adventure/Horror Stories: The Fire of Asshurbanipal - Robert E. HowardJames Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-86183673669188860972020-11-08T12:58:26.637-06:002020-11-08T12:58:26.637-06:00I love this story, both as a Howard enthusiast, bu...I love this story, both as a Howard enthusiast, but also as a student of the Assyrian Empire. There was a marvellous exhibition in the British Museum dedicated to this awesome period of history recently, and there's some great statues to see in the permanent displays. Also, if you read the adventures the treasure hunters had transporting the colossal sculptures, it makes the early part of the story seem less fanciful.BJShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04656726361346045213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-85550507389776508142020-10-28T13:03:48.869-05:002020-10-28T13:03:48.869-05:00That does sound like a wonderful issue.That does sound like a wonderful issue.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-55994126372054655772020-10-28T12:20:41.101-05:002020-10-28T12:20:41.101-05:00I only have ten or twelve issues of Weird Tales fr...I only have ten or twelve issues of Weird Tales from the classic era.<br />But this is one I do have, and it's in the best condition of the lot.<br />Occasionally I'll get it out and read a story, but each paper flake it sheds makes me feel like I'm destroying a relic.<br /><br />It also has Lovecraft's 'Haunter of the Dark' (in which HPL kills Robert Bloch), Bloch's Mother of Serpents, and tales by August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman and Henry Kuttner. <br />A fine issue of what seems to me to be the finest genre fiction magazine of all time.<br /><br />John Hocking Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-84412706419299369162020-10-28T11:55:00.801-05:002020-10-28T11:55:00.801-05:00Great choice, James. Howard tends to keep the act...Great choice, James. Howard tends to keep the action going and so many of his tales are genuinely creepy.Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.com