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Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. https://deepcuts.blog
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The Robert E. Howard Foundation Award winners have been announced! @file770.bsky.social rehfoundation.org/2025-reh-awa...

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Posting from Cross Plains this week, during Robert E. Howard Days, and it's a deep cut in a Howardian vein as we look at Conan de Cimmeria (2021) by Ángel Gª Nieto, Julio Rod, & Esteban Navarro, a Spanish-language graphic novel. deepcuts.blog/2025/06/14/c...

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"On the way I stopped at old Fort Griffin, on the Clear Fork of the Brazos, now almost vanished, and presenting no such elaborate ruins as McKavett. But in its day it was the toughest, wildest, and woolliest town west of the Mississippi." —Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, Sep or Oct 1933

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It's a deep cut in a Howardian vein as we look at Robert E. Howard's obscure correspondent Edna Mann. deepcuts.blog/2025/06/11/h...

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"I long to see Stonehenge, and to wander in some haunted oak wood where the trees arch overhead and attain an unbelievable girth! Such oak forests have haunted my dreams ever since I can remember." —H. P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, 4 Oct 1930, MF1.76

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It's a deep cut in a Howardian vein this week as Her Letters to Robert E. Howard looks at Lexie Dean Robertson - the future Poet Laureate of Texas who lived not far from Robert E. Howard. deepcuts.blog/2025/06/07/h...

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For Pride, I want to share my only novella nevermeant.blog/2022/08/29/s... 🔞 It is my attempt at a weird horror Sapphic romance. The style of prose is meant to invoke early 20th century gothic lit. I'm sorry I don't have anything new. The fog continues to ruin my progress.

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This is almost a book-length topic (and I have a book on it coming out, hopefully this summer). Lovecraft was an important influence on Robert E. Howard after they began corresponding, although usually in very subtle ways. REH's influence on HPL is less pronounced, but definitely there.

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Price was the ONLY one to meet both Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (and Clark Ashton Smith, Farnsworth Wright, Seabury Quinn, etc.) and his memoirs are fascinating. I wrote a brief book about Price's trips to visit REH, CROSS PLAINS PILGRIMAGES, which I gave out at a previous Howard Days.

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"The Hyborian Age" essay does the most to show the connections between Hyborian-Age cultures and the ancient historical cultures that inspired them, but Robert E. Howard doesn't talk about it much in his letters. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price both addressed his use of historical names...

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Robert E. Howard had minimal formal knowledge of the occult, and what he did know of esoteric practices came though Theosophy and the Free Thought movement. So you see a lot of hypnotism in his stories, a bit of charlatanry, and a good deal of cynicism regarding religious authorities. But...

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Despite L. Sprague de Camp's assertion that all of Howard's heroes read like the same character, I feel they're each distinct - and tend to show his growth as a writer. The earlier Conan as my favorite of those three characters. And yeah, the B-K thing has been noted (Bran Mak Morn, El Borak, etc.)

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Prepping for Robert E. Howard Days next week. I've got a couple hundred books to give away, sitting on two panels, and doing reading a paper. Any questions about Robert E. Howard & co.?

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You can now listen to my playlist for The Bewitching: open.spotify.com/playlist/4IS... One of the timelines is set in 1998 so it features many songs from the alternative music scene of that decade. 🎸 Out this July, order now.

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Underappreciated Deep Cut of the day: guest poster Ro Solarian reviews a pulp study about gender transition. deepcuts.blog/2023/06/14/d...

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Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

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The incredible thing to me is that with all that we know about Lovecraft's racism, people still have to make shit up about how racist he was. It is...bizarre. It's like saying the Nazis invaded France because they believed in the medical power of huffing French girl farts.

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Mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9bZ...

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Looking for a deal? @AppleBooks picked MEXICAN GOTHIC as the audiobook of the week! Get it for $4.99, this week only: apple.co/weeklyaudiobook

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