Modern Robert E. Howard fandom is on the rise and I decided to add my own contribution. Each issue is 80 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 (side-stapled) fanzine SWORD & FANTASY. This is for #11-20, and as a set this is $25 off the full retail price of $150.
SWORD & FANTASY #11 (2013). Features include "The Technique of Fantasy Collecting" by Sam Peeples, "A Short Essay on Long" by Arthur J. Cox, "That Moment Of Horror" by Henry Kuttner, "The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, R.I." from the Providence Sunday Journal for Dec. 26, 1943, "The Ships of Ishtar," "7 Footnotes To Merritt" by Thomas Carter, several letters written to me by Glenn Lord, "J.R.R. Tolkien, A Brief Survey & Comparison" by Doc Weir (from ELDRITCH DREAMQUEST #2), "Memories of Seabury Quinn" by E. Hoffman Price, "A Visit Inside Ackerman's Sci-Fi Mansion," and more. Full color front and back covers by Mahlon Fawcett.
SWORD & FANTASY #12 (2016). Features include an article on Frank Frazetta, 1945 Harper's review of H.P. Lovecraft, covers of foreign HPL books, old article on Clark Ashton Smith, index to STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES, E. Hoffman Price tribute to Edmond Hamilton, an interview with the late Nils Hardin (publisher of XENOPHILE), a long article on comic books and horror by James Van Hise, previously unpublished fantasy art by Eduardo Barreto, article on artist Mahlon Fawcett who died in 2015, and more.
SWORD & FANTASY #13 (2017). Features
include an in-depth 50 page article by Rick McCollum on the classic
writers of fantasy in the early 20th century. "The Most Popular Stories
in Weird Tales 1924-1940", a 1969 article on Robert E. Howard by Bob Weinberg, an author index to FANTASTIC NOVELS and
FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES. Art by Eduardo Barreto, Allen Koszowski,
Berni Wrightson and more. Front cover art from an unpublished 1971 issue
of SATELLITE SCIENCE FICTION.
SWORD & FANTASY #14 (2018). Features
include cover art by Allen
Koszowski. Tribute to Robert Weinberg and Joel Freiman with their 1960s
fanzines DEEPER THAN YOU THINK on Robert E. Howard and Weird Tales. A 7
page 1980 interview with Lin Carter. Art folio from the A. Merritt
novel CREEP SHADOW.A 2 page folio of covers from foreign H.P. Lovecraft
books. An interview with Wally Wood. A reprint of his original story THE
END (which was revised and rewritten without his permission in the
magazine 1984), and more.
SWORD & FANTASY #15 (2019). Features include cover art by Allen Koszowski. Tribute to Frank Frazetta and Al Williamson. Article on the works of H.P. Lovecraft from a 1945 issue of THE NEW YORKER (one page shown below), and also an article on Lovecraft from the January 1946 ESQUIRE magazine. "The Last Romantic: Clark Ashton Smith" (from 1956). Two imitation Frazetta covers from foreign Conan paperbacks, and more.
SWORD & FANTASY #16 (2019). Features
include H.P. LOVECRAFT by Don Wilson (CANFAN June 1956), 1935 Letter from HPL to Forrest J Ackerman, SWORD AND SORCERY by Fritz Leiber (SHANGRI L’AFFAIRES #55 - 1961), rare early book review of SKULL FACE AND OTHERS (FANTASY TIMES August 1948). SELECTED LETTERS OF CAS TO GEORGE STERLING (MIRAGE #10 - 1971), Obit on AUGUST DERLETH (MIRAGE #10 - 1971), ROY HUNT illo (STARLIGHT - Spring 1941), ROBERT E. HOWARD LANCER PB CHECKLIST (PSFQ #3/4 - 1978) and more.
SWORD & FANTASY #17 (2020) Features include Jack Jackson's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Hound" from 1972 (and which he gave me permission to reprint back in 1984). Skip Olson color art of Cthulhu. "HPL On Edgar Rice Burroughs." Reviews of Robert E. Howard books from 1971 & 1977. Folio of HPL inspired art by R.F. McCann. "Introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos" by J. Vernon Shea. A Roy Hunt fantasy illo from 1948. An article on Mark Schultz by James Van Hise. A long fantasy comic strip by Ron Wilber and more.
SWORD & FANTASY #18 (2021) Contents include letters by GLENN LORD, ZARFHAANA by GLENN LORD (1974), H.P. LOVECRAFT: THE HOUSE AND THE SHADOWS by J. Vernon Shea, Cthulhu drawing by J. Cockroft (cover of LIGHT, 1946), LOVECRAFT ON BURROUGHS, MEMORIES OF QUINN by E. Hoffman Price (1969), AN INTERVIEW WITH E. HOFFMAN PRICE, ART FOLIO BY JOSEPH H. KRUCHER (1962), AN INTERVIEW WITH KARL EDWARD WAGNER (1975), and more.
SWORD & FANTASY #19 (2022) Contents include articles by and about H.P. Lovecraft. Sword & Sorcery art. Article on the A. Merritt novel THE FACE IN THE ABYSS, and more. Cover by Margaret Brundage.
SWORD & FANTASY #20 (2023) Complete
reprint of the 1955 publication HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT MEMOIRS
CRITIQUES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES edited by George Wetzel, originally
reprinted from 1940s fanzines. Covers from two Russian editions of H.P.
Lovecraft.
Normal cover price would be $150 but this set is $125 (postpaid).
SWORD & FANTASY #1-20 are all available individually in my Ebay Store.
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