Theagenes

One of the first things we had to do was set up the Robert E. Howard exihibit. Here's Patrice contemplating our set up. Must of the "artifacts" on display were from my collection (except the movie props). And except of the original Conan typescript on loan from the Cross Plains library.

When i got to San Antonio the first thing I did was meet up with Patrice (Xaltotun here on the boards). Patrice is the editor of the Del Rey Conan books and if you've seen him posting in the pulp thread you know what great books he has. We hooked up Bill Cavalier from REHupa and the three of us went out to dinner with local San Antonio boardie Roger (Weird Paper). roger took us to a great little tex-Mex joint far away from the tourist trap we were stuck in, and then we all went back to his place to ogle his insane art collection. Sorry for the awful cell phone pics: This is BWS Conan page: And a Thunda 1 page!

Oh-h. Sounds exciting. The last Worldcon I attended was the 1974 con held in Washington, DC. I hope you take plenty of photos. Okay so I never did get around to posting any Worldcon photos. It was a lot of fun! I'm getting too old to do that much partying in such a short timespan and it took my a week or two to recover. part of that was because i went to the Tampa Bay Comic Con immediately before and only had a day inbetween to rest. Tampa was a blast too. I moderated a panel with Hugh Howey, the NY times bestselling author of the post-apocolyptic Wool series. Hung out with him alot and he was a really cool guy. Hung out at the Frazetta table a good bit too, talking with J. David Spurlock from Vanguard Productions. He's the one that edits all those great art books like the Wally Wood one, the new Brundage book, Frazetta sketch book. Frank Brunner was there and i got to hear him tell some cool stories. Met Holly Frazetta and her daughter: Had dinner with Chad Coleman (Tyreese from WD), Spurlock and others. Chad was very cool -- really intelligent guy and former Shakespearean actor. He and my wife really hit it off discussiing education and poverty (she's a hs librarian in rural Georgia). Here's David and me with Chad: Then it was off to San Antonio for Worldcon!

Here's an oldie but goodie.

Do Barsoomian Banths count?

Dig those crazy beards, Daddy-O!

Very nice!

Outstanding, Dwight!

Love the cataclysm cover!

Nice!

Nice! that's one I've never owned and it's one of my favorite Conan stories.

Wonderful stuff guys! Keep em' coming!

Great books Todd!

Too bad about the missing pieces but it looks awesome all the same!

And of course there are signed typescripts out there. And here's my lastest REH pick up:

Brad, this is all fascinating material. Thank you and BZ so much for sharing.

Beautiful books, Pat. Those must be hard to find. Maybe some day I'll stumble across copies at a price I won't be able to resist and I can add a few of those titles to my collection. Ditto! Those are sweet books Pat!

Oh-h. Sounds exciting. The last Worldcon I attended was the 1974 con held in Washington, DC. I hope you take plenty of photos. I'll definitely do a trip report. (thumbs u BTW, you guys might be interested to know I'm currently co-editing a collection of critical essays on Weird Tales, a large chunk of which will be on HPL and REH. It's planned as being a part of Joshi's Studies in Supernatural Literature series from Scarecrow Press and should be out late next year if all goes well.

Very true. DeCamp's original fiction is not bad at all. The Tritonian Ring and the other Pusad stories are very good.

I first read Lovecraft (and Howard) when I was about the same age as when you started reading him. I haven't read anything by HPL since I was in high school. I wonder if I'd still enjoy the stories if I were to reread any of them. I think you might as I found myself again in possession of a paperback of his stories a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed reading some of his tales again. There is an innate oppressive creepiness to his writing that makes you fear going down into the cellar or out into the dark!! I first read HPL in college. A guy I knew from around campus saw me reading a paperback collection one day, came over and after a conversation said "oh, I read collections of his LETTERS now." I think I probably looked at him like he was nuts. "His letters? Wha...?" I thought. But of course, that is just the kind of behind the scenes / historical material I would subsequently grow to love so much (I haven't read too many of Lovecraft's letters, but generally speaking I mean). You guys should check out the HPL and REH collections available on kindle if you haven't. Complete or near-complete collections can be had very cheap. I've read to tatters and replaced a few times over some of original anthology paperbacks, so this is one area that the digital is useful. I still return to those stories from time to time. Mark, you might enjoy _A Means to Freedom_. It's a 2-volume set collecting the correspondence between REH and HPL. Really great stuff including their famous barbarism vs. civilization debate.

There are a couple of big HPL and REH events about to take place over the next two weekends. This weekend is NecronomiCon in Providence, the biggest HPL convention of the the year: http://necronomicon-providence.com/ And starting next week and running through the weekend is WorldCon in San Antonio. Since it's in Texas they're having a ton of REH-related programming, exhibits, and events. I'll be there and will be on a bunch of panels. It should a blast. I've never been to a WorldCon before so I'm really excited to be attending the granddaddy of all cons. Here's some of the info: http://www.lonestarcon3.org/exhibits/howard.shtml

While I didn't get anything as impressive as a GL 1 from Todd, I did just get an upgrade of my all-time favorite book from him. Thanks Todd!