Author Archives: Paul Herman

Finding a New Printer, and Books Out of Print

COVID-19 has another casualty: our printer. Thankfully not the people there, just the business. When [...]

Boxing

An avid fight fan and amateur boxer, Robert E. Howard wrote stories about the prize [...]

Humor

In his humorous Westerns, Howard shows a mastery of regional dialect and comedic styles (from [...]

Westerns

Robert E. Howard hoped one day to write an epic history of his native Southwest. [...]

Regional Horror

A few American writers have successfully combined fantasy, horror, and U.S. Southern regionalism. Along with [...]

Cosmic Horror

Robert E. Howard wrote gripping horror stories, giving a unique twist to the traditional monsters [...]

Science-Fiction

Robert E. Howard said there was “so little of the scientist about my nature” that [...]

Detective Stories

What if someone were to combine the sinister Fu Manchu school of pulp melodrama with [...]

Historical Adventures

Howard loved the panoramas of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance history, which his imagination populated with [...]

Desert Adventures

Robert E. Howard created two resourceful men of action who roam the tumultuous frontiers of [...]

Heroic Fantasy

On the edges of the known world and in ancient kingdoms of blood and gold [...]