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Robert E. Howard

The Cimmerian
The number one magazine for Robert E. Howard scholars and fans. Articles about REH, his works, and the current REH scene plus news, guerilla warfare in the letters column, poetry, and dazzling art make every issue of The Cimmerian a collectible!
www.thecimmerian.com

REHUPA
The home of the Robert E. Howard United Press Association. This is an awesome source for REH critics and commentators.
www.rehupa.com

Howard Works
For my money, the best checklist of REH writing online. Cross references stories by magazine, title, publisher, genre, and character.
http://howardworks.com/

REH: Two Gun Raconteur
Home of Damon Sasser's definitve REH fanzine. Three decades of fandom!
http://www.rehtwogunraconteur.com/

Heroes of Dark Fantasy
Excellent website deciated to Conan, Elric, Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser and many more. Full-text articles and art on Sword & Sorcery classics!
http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/heroesof.htm

The Dark Man
A genu-wine academic REH journal (peer-review and all that). Fascinating stuff in here!
http://www.beyond49.ca/TDM/index.html
The mirror site is available at:
http://www.robert-e-howard.org/TDM/

Don Herron
Veteran REH scholar, also runs Dashiell Hammett Tours in San Francisco, and biographer of Florida author Charles Willeford.
http://www.donherron.com/

The Barbarian Keep
Ed Waterman’s REH website. Very interesting.
http://www.barbariankeep.com/

Wandering Star
Publishers of top-quality collections of REH stories: Conan, Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and more!
http://www.wanderingplanet.com/

The Howard House
The place where REH lived and died in Cross Plains, Texas is preserved as a museum. REH fans make the pilgrimage here every year in June.
http://www.crossplains.com/howard/museum.htm

Barbarian Days
When the good people of Cross Plains, Texas commemorate their most famous son. Funnel cake too!
http://www.barbarianfestival.com/


Writers who aren’t Robert E. Howard

The Multiverse
Site for Michael Moorcock, one of the three best sword & sorcery writers ever, period. (Guess who the others are.)
http://www.multiverse.org/

Lankhmar
Site for Fritz Leiber, one of the three best sword & sorcery writers ever, period. (If you haven’t figured out who the three best sword & sorcery writers are by now, look at this page again.)
http://www.lankhmar.demon.co.uk/ 

The Eldritch Dark
Excellent site devoted to the works of Clark Ashton Smith.
http://www.eldritchdark.com/site_map.html

The Lovecraft Archive
Number one HP Lovecraft website out there. 
http://www.hplovecraft.com/

The Curved Saber
Home for all things Harold Lamb, fictioneer, diplomat, and historian.
http://www.haroldlamb.net/

The H. Rider Haggard Society
The man who practically invented the "lost race" adventure genre.
http://www.riderhaggardsociety.org.uk/

The Flashman Society
All about that cad, Flashy (the Draco Malfoy of Rugby, or is Malfoy the Flashman of Hogwarts?) and many other things about George MacDonald Fraser.
http://www.harryflashman.org/

Rafael Sabatini
Author of Captain Blood and all-round master of historical adventure yarns.
http://www.rafaelsabatini.com/

Elmer Kelton
West Texas western writer, writes really well. Say that ten times fast.
http://www.elmerkelton.net/

Louis L’Amour
Needs no introduction.
http://www.louislamour.com/

J.R.R. Tolkein
Only the most inluential fantasy writer (not sword & sorcery though)  of the 20th century.
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/

James Reasoner
Writer of westerns, historical adventure and REH scholar
http://home.flash.net/~livia/james.html

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Did you ever hear of a little book called Tarzan?
http://www.tarzan.org/

ERBzine
http://www.erbzine.com/

Other sites of interest
The Liberated Space
Home of the daring libertarian radio program that shook the Austn airwaves.Find Angela Keaton's blog, news, commentary, and general subversion.
http://www.liberatedspace.com/


Anomaly Radio
Wanna know what's really going on? Expand your world with Anomaly Radio and the ELFIS Network. Audiobooks on a wide array of topics too.
http://www.anomalyradio.com/
http://www.anomalyaudiobooks.com/

Violet Books
More than just a bookstore, Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s website is a colossal compendium of comment and criticism on just about every aspect of fantasy, science fiction, westerns, horror, adventure & genres too numerous to mention. Damn, I wish I were as well read as this woman.
www.violetbooks.com

Pagan Publishing
Produces many quaint and curious items for the delectation of Call of Cthulhu players. Reading The Unspeakable Oath has done my sanity a world of good. HA, HA, HA, HAAAAA! IÄ SHUB-NIGGURATH!
http://www.tccorp.com/pagan/index.html


G.W. Thomas
One-man publishing EMPIRE!
http://www.gwthomas.org/

Gary Gianni
The artist who brought to life Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and Conan for Wandering Star: Gary Gianni. Also does Prince Valiant among many other projects.
http://www.garygianni.com/


Blackmask Online
Great source for public domain works, especially Victorian era adventure, westerns, pulps, sf, &c. Very reasonable prices.
http://www.blackmask.com/

Ralan
Awesome compiler of markets for science fiction & fantasy writers.
http://www.ralan.com/

Wildside Press
Publishers of many fine pulp authors as well as new works.
http://www.wildsidepress.com/

Necronomicon Press
Excellent publishers of fiction, literary criticism, and curiosities.
http://www.necropress.com/

Revolution SF
http://www.revolutionsf.com/home.html

SF Reader
http://www.sfreader.com/

Cliffhanger Case Files
http://www.cliffhangercasefiles.com/

Crime Scene Scotland
http://www.crimescenescotland.com/new_issue.htm

Over My Dead Body
http://www.overmydeadbody.com/index2.htm

Pulp & Dagger
http://www.pulpanddagger.com/pulpmag/contents.html

Shots Magazine
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/