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Black Canaan, from WT June 1936 Illustrated by Harold S. Daley Robert E. Howard’s “Black Canaan” has almost become the go-to reference ...

Not every letter from every pulp writer that survives has been published; many remain on the open market and in private hands, coming up...

Yes, there was a cow. I saw the critter. Her name was Delhi, and hump shouldered to suggest Indian blood—Asian-Indian, I mean.—E. Hoffmann ...

WT May 1936 The strong swordswoman characters created by Robert E. Howard (like Bêlit, Valeria, Dark Agnes, and Red Sonya of Rogatino) g...

WT March 1936 Kuttner had just broken into Weird Tales in the March 1936 issue with “The Graveyard Rats,” but Lovecraft quickly adopted...

Dec. '34 WT Jirel’s first adventure was quickly followed up by a second; “Black God’s Shadow” appeared in the Dec 1934 Weird Tales. ...

The peak was reached in 1933, when he handed me something by one C. L. Moore.  “Read this!” he commanded, the moment I stepped into the n...