It makes me really happy that when I search for Robert E. Howard on RUclips Michael’s vids are the first to pop up. Wonderful job as always championing Howard’s work! He’s become my favorite writer as well
Thanks for showcasing these volumes from the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press. It's encouraging to hear they're using the corrected texts that are closer to Howard's original vision, and that is a hilarious letter to Lovecraft.
My little brother found Howard’s Conan series when we were in high school and we absolutely loved them. I had no idea he wrote all these other books thanks for bringing them to us.
I’m really interested in these but I gotta get my del ray copies and read the classics first! It’s the Robert E. Howard show, glad to catch the Robert E. Howard show.
Always love your introductions...very funny and yet pretend-serious at the same time! Your enthusiasm is infectious. Have just ordered "Spicy Adventures" from Amazon UK. It says a three-week delay, but we will see. Your heads-up on the new editions is great - am so glad these are being made available again, and in paperback too! 🙂
That letter though, what a troll 🤣🤣 Btw, i am glad that they are reprinting everything, definetelly getting them. Curious to read the extra spicy edition xD, hopefully i will be surprised.
Just started rereading the Conan stories when this video popped up. Life is good. I'm glad to see the Howard Foundation putting these things out. Howard is one of, if not flat out, my favorite authors and it is always great to find more his works. I'm not sure if I'll get the Spicy Adventures collection as it isn't a type of story I'm interested in at all, but I may get it just to complete the Howard collection. Also, that letter to Lovecraft had me bursting out laughing. It kind of makes me want to see a spicy story by Lovecraft just to see how insane it would turn out. Knowing him, he'd probably create a cosmic being that's just AIDS given an alien form. I'm really looking forward to getting the pirate adventures collection. I remember reading Black Vulmea's Vengeance on the second volume of Del Rey's best of Howard book and it game me an itch to read more of his pirate stories.
I have my trip to Providence all mapped out for the end of the month!! (including a visit to the Pennsylvania Zane Grey museum). I will be doing the HPL self- guided walking tour! (Hopefully no rain). Then a trip to the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River before heading home! And, one or two bookshop and tobacco shop stops along the way! I am sure I will think of you often, my friend!!
I had several old chapbooks from Cryptic Press, the publishers of Crypt of Cthulhu, that had some of that stuff in various REH chapbooks. 'Lewd Tales' had some of the rarer spicy stuff. I had spares so I sent a few out to UK based BookTubers for Garbaugust 1, but no one showed them. I guess they were too scared to go there! 😄
The 'Spicy' cover is great! The 'Pirate' cover not so much, simply because it should've been Vulmea. Helen Taverel is cool and all, but still... IMO, "Guns of Khartoum" is far and away the best of REH's spicies. Roy Thomas even adapted it for SSoC.
Cor pirates! With free vintage cosplay photographs, neat. Yeah, looks like I'll getting more REH after Cimmerian September .. ooooh saucy stories of Spicey Adventures, surely its just racy like a black an white Bogie & Becall movie, it couldn't be spicer ... could it? *gulp*
Great books! They were always a little difficult to get, so I'm glad that they're making them available again and releasing new ones. "The Early Adventures of El Borak" looks intriguing. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm assuming that collects his adventures as a gunfighter in the American west.
No, these stories of El Borak and Steve Allison were some of the first stories Howard wrote as a teenager. Most of the El Borak stories are of him already in the Middle East and India, while some of the Steve Allison stories are of his days as a cowboy in America.
This is great news. I’m also happy that they finally started putting these on Kindle. The El Borak one is available on September 30. Do you know if they’re reprints of the ones in the Del Rey edition?
Coincidentally I was looking at the Foundation Press series this morning. The volumes "Steve Harrison's Casebook" (the complete adventures of the detective) and "Swords of the North" (including the James Allison, Cormac MacArt, and Turlogh O'Brien stories) are particularly interesting. Steve Harrison appeals to me because, as Rusty Burke said, "it's really hard to imagine Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett with his detective ending up going up against the alien hordes with a battle-axe like Howard had Steve Harrison doing at the end of 'Lord of the Dead'" (ruclips.net/video/K8T0s7EIIHM/видео.htmlsi=JQ2MQxjabeF94hnw); while James Allison, with the idea of experiencing one's past incarnations, was probably influenced by Rider Haggard's Taduki drug in novels like "The Ancient Allan" (which REH owned). The "Pirate Adventures" volume is also of interest. The first Howard story I ever read was "The Isle of Pirate's Doom," which, though obscure, is quite fun.
No, the James Allison tales were influenced by one of Howard's favorite writers, Jack London, and his book on a prisoner reliving past lives, The Star Rover.
@@buckbenny9088 Thank you for mentioning it; I forgot to describe London's influence on the Allison stories. But Howard was also an admirer of Haggard, listing him as one of his favourite authors in a letter to Lovecraft. Although it doesn't mention the James Allison stories in particular, you can read Deuce Richardson's article "Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: H. Rider Haggard" at DMR Books for more information. Anyone who has read Haggard's "The Ivory Child," "The Ancient Allan" and "Allan and the Ice-Gods" will see the influence on Howard, who actually mentioned the Taduki drug in one of his early fragments.
It makes me really happy that when I search for Robert E. Howard on RUclips Michael’s vids are the first to pop up. Wonderful job as always championing Howard’s work! He’s become my favorite writer as well
Oh boy! Oh boy! 🎵It’s the Robert E. Howard Show!! 🎶
That letter to Lovecraft was hilarious!
Thanks for showcasing these volumes from the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press. It's encouraging to hear they're using the corrected texts that are closer to Howard's original vision, and that is a hilarious letter to Lovecraft.
My little brother found Howard’s Conan series when we were in high school and we absolutely loved them. I had no idea he wrote all these other books thanks for bringing them to us.
Uhhh....MORE money I now have to spend! Good stuff Michael!
I’m really interested in these but I gotta get my del ray copies and read the classics first!
It’s the Robert E. Howard show, glad to catch the Robert E. Howard show.
Exciting stuff. I love that the original texts have been restored. REH's letter was hilarious. 😂
Great video. Thank you. I will buy these and then I’ll have to read them!!!
Always love your introductions...very funny and yet pretend-serious at the same time! Your enthusiasm is infectious. Have just ordered "Spicy Adventures" from Amazon UK. It says a three-week delay, but we will see. Your heads-up on the new editions is great - am so glad these are being made available again, and in paperback too! 🙂
Those look great!
Love your work matey. Now I know what I am getting for Xmas.
Hello Michael Hello, from the Northern Parts of Sumeria Mesopotamia
Love the cover of Spicy Adventures and the pirate photo 🤭
Hello 👍👋👋📚
Wow. That's cool stuff for us Howard fans. Loved those stories in the previous publications.
That letter though, what a troll 🤣🤣
Btw, i am glad that they are reprinting everything, definetelly getting them. Curious to read the extra spicy edition xD, hopefully i will be surprised.
I wonder what HPL would make of his fictional sex adventures as penned by Edward lee. It’s heartwarming to find that REH at least had a good time.
Imagine REH and HPL on Twitter direct messages, sending letters like that.
That letter to Lovecraft was essentially his way of saying "LOL. Virgin."
Awesome.
Lovecraft was married.
@@secretfirebooks7894 The funny thing is that REH might have died a virgin, for all the evidence we have, while HPL certainly did not.
@@chefeddie6164 That makes it even funnier!
Thanks for the heads up!
Just started rereading the Conan stories when this video popped up. Life is good.
I'm glad to see the Howard Foundation putting these things out. Howard is one of, if not flat out, my favorite authors and it is always great to find more his works.
I'm not sure if I'll get the Spicy Adventures collection as it isn't a type of story I'm interested in at all, but I may get it just to complete the Howard collection. Also, that letter to Lovecraft had me bursting out laughing. It kind of makes me want to see a spicy story by Lovecraft just to see how insane it would turn out. Knowing him, he'd probably create a cosmic being that's just AIDS given an alien form.
I'm really looking forward to getting the pirate adventures collection. I remember reading Black Vulmea's Vengeance on the second volume of Del Rey's best of Howard book and it game me an itch to read more of his pirate stories.
I have my trip to Providence all mapped out for the end of the month!! (including a visit to the Pennsylvania Zane Grey museum). I will be doing the HPL self- guided walking tour! (Hopefully no rain). Then a trip to the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River before heading home! And, one or two bookshop and tobacco shop stops along the way! I am sure I will think of you often, my friend!!
You know, that Zane Gray museum is only about an hour away from the Frank Frazetta museum in East Stroudsberg, Pa.
@@johndinneen1222 I did not know that!!! Interesting! Thank you!!
@@glockensig fantastic! Have a wonderful time!
Awesome Video
I had several old chapbooks from Cryptic Press, the publishers of Crypt of Cthulhu, that had some of that stuff in various REH chapbooks. 'Lewd Tales' had some of the rarer spicy stuff. I had spares so I sent a few out to UK based BookTubers for Garbaugust 1, but no one showed them. I guess they were too scared to go there! 😄
Extra, extra spicy 🌶️!
Thanks for showing these. I got the swords of the North and these also look interesting. 😊
The 'Spicy' cover is great! The 'Pirate' cover not so much, simply because it should've been Vulmea. Helen Taverel is cool and all, but still...
IMO, "Guns of Khartoum" is far and away the best of REH's spicies. Roy Thomas even adapted it for SSoC.
Vulmea..yea sir love black terence.
Great news, but--
We should learn to use Howardisms.
They're not "stories", they're "yarns".
@@Falconlibrary I’m not sure I could pull that off.
Howard did a fair few westerns too - I've got a kindle version of the collected western stories.
Would love to see a video on the Gent from Bear Creek series he wrote. I haven't read those yet.
Spicy video
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cor pirates! With free vintage cosplay photographs, neat. Yeah, looks like I'll getting more REH after Cimmerian September .. ooooh saucy stories of Spicey Adventures, surely its just racy like a black an white Bogie & Becall movie, it couldn't be spicer ... could it? *gulp*
Man, you just cost me more money. I'm going to need these books!
I would pay good coin to read a H.P Lovecraft Spicy Story. It would be an awkward mess. Think he would involve tentacles?
Great books! They were always a little difficult to get, so I'm glad that they're making them available again and releasing new ones. "The Early Adventures of El Borak" looks intriguing. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm assuming that collects his adventures as a gunfighter in the American west.
No, these stories of El Borak and Steve Allison were some of the first stories Howard wrote as a teenager. Most of the El Borak stories are of him already in the Middle East and India, while some of the Steve Allison stories are of his days as a cowboy in America.
@@buckbenny9088 Okay, cool. Thank you!
Now I want a book on HPL's sex adventures 🤣
Crossing my fingers for reprints of the Sailor Steve stories!
I thought those were done already..I know audible has the collection.
even HPL couldn't resist a spicy pirate tho.......!
You just know there's an alternate universe where Lovecraft wrote erotic fiction.
Just bought Spicy .. probably will get the Pirates one as well, they sound great (already spent a fortune today)
New books? What about the 500 pile of shame challenge?
Great video as always.
@@lx4 gifts don’t effect the 500 pile of shame.
This is great news. I’m also happy that they finally started putting these on Kindle. The El Borak one is available on September 30. Do you know if they’re reprints of the ones in the Del Rey edition?
@@GholaMuadDib I don’t know the contents of the volume yet.
Coincidentally I was looking at the Foundation Press series this morning. The volumes "Steve Harrison's Casebook" (the complete adventures of the detective) and "Swords of the North" (including the James Allison, Cormac MacArt, and Turlogh O'Brien stories) are particularly interesting. Steve Harrison appeals to me because, as Rusty Burke said, "it's really hard to imagine Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett with his detective ending up going up against the alien hordes with a battle-axe like Howard had Steve Harrison doing at the end of 'Lord of the Dead'" (ruclips.net/video/K8T0s7EIIHM/видео.htmlsi=JQ2MQxjabeF94hnw); while James Allison, with the idea of experiencing one's past incarnations, was probably influenced by Rider Haggard's Taduki drug in novels like "The Ancient Allan" (which REH owned).
The "Pirate Adventures" volume is also of interest. The first Howard story I ever read was "The Isle of Pirate's Doom," which, though obscure, is quite fun.
No, the James Allison tales were influenced by one of Howard's favorite writers, Jack London, and his book on a prisoner reliving past lives, The Star Rover.
@@buckbenny9088
Thank you for mentioning it; I forgot to describe London's influence on the Allison stories. But Howard was also an admirer of Haggard, listing him as one of his favourite authors in a letter to Lovecraft. Although it doesn't mention the James Allison stories in particular, you can read Deuce Richardson's article "Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: H. Rider Haggard" at DMR Books for more information. Anyone who has read Haggard's "The Ivory Child," "The Ancient Allan" and "Allan and the Ice-Gods" will see the influence on Howard, who actually mentioned the Taduki drug in one of his early fragments.