Reddit mentions of Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others

For anyone that's been interested in some of the articles I've posted over the last couple of years regarding pulp authors: there's now a book. Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard & Others collects many of my essays and articles that have appeared online and in print, as well as a couple of original and expanded pieces you haven't seen yet - examining Howard's interactions with fellow pulp writers like H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Seabury Quinn, R. H. Barlow, Henry S. Whitehead, his agent Otis Adelbert Kline, the mystic William Lumley and more; there are works that touch on Howard's work in the amateur press and his thoughts on marijuana.

Most of these essays rely very strongly on the correspondence between Lovecraft & Robert E. Howard - and Lovecraft's correspondence about Howard with various other writers in the circle. These are resources that provide much more light and context on Howard's life and work than his letters by themselves provide, since many times we can get more insight into different angles of a conversation or the flow of events - fans of Lovecraft might find this book interesting if only on that angle.

Many of my essays get nominated for Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards; last year one of them actually won. So I like to think there's a bit of scholarly value to them.

Available from Hippocampus Press and on Amazon for US$20 - that'll probably go up in a bit, since my other book normally goes for $25 retail:

https://www.amazon.com/Weird-Talers-Essays-Robert-Howard/dp/1614982589/

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/robert-e.-howard/essays-on-robert-e.-howard-and-others-by-bobby-derie