cover to
issue number eight,
The Dark Man 		    

Release info:
Editor: Mark Hall
Release Date: 8 Feb 2005
Perfect Bound softcover chapbook
Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
Length: 50pgs.
Suggested Retail Price: $8.- 		    
 
The Dark Man
The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies

Contents of Issue no. 8:
  1. "Texas as Character in Robert E. Howard's Fiction" by Mark Finn. The influence of the state of Texas on Howard and his use of said state within his fiction.

  2. "Robert E. Howard in the Gothic Tradition" by Charles Gramlich. The influence of Gothic authors, particularly Edgar Allan Poe, on Howard's fictional output.

  3. "Two Views on The Barbaric Triumph" by Fred Blosser and S.T. Joshi. Two critical reviews on the Don Herron edited collection The Barbaric Triumph.

  4. "Adventures--Imperial and Otherwise" by Mark E. Hall. A focused study on Richard Phillips' Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure and the influence that Imperialism had upon pulp authors, Howard in particular.

  5. Power of the Writing Mind reviewed by Scotty Henderson.

  6. Graveyard Rats reviewed by Charles Hoffmann.

  7. "Through a Prism, Darkly" by David Robbins. Critical review of The Savage Tales of Soloman Kane.