#conan re-read

The Weird Tales issue for March 1933 hits the readers with yet another installment of Otis Adelbert Kline’s Buccaneers of Venus (that by now has got me curious enough that I’ll probably read it in October), yet another novelette by Seabury Quinn featuring Jules de Grandin, and then two stories by Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. As luck would have it, The Tower of the Elephant and The…

January 1933 brings a new issue of Weird Tales, featuring the works of Murray Leinster, Edmond Hamilton, Seabury Quinn and a new installment of Otis Adelbert Kline’s Buccaneers of Venus (that again gets the cover). The letters section includes one from Jack Williamson.And halfway through the issue we find a new Robert E. Howard story featuring Conan the Cimmerian, the novelette The Scarlet…

The Cimmerian September starts tomorrow – a month in which a number of Youtubers will read all the original Conan stories written by Robert E, Howard, and post videos about it.And I thought, why not do something similar here on Karavansara? Robert E. Howard wrote only 21 stories about Conan during his life, and those are the ones I’m going to read.The reference edition I’ll be using is the…

I was wasting time on Youtube after dinner, and I stumbled on this video by the esteemed Michael K. Vaughan (that you should really follow if you like good books) … and I thought, why not?I own a copy of the Gollancz book mentioned in the video, and this might be a nice excuse to get the three DelRey books, too (I need the first volume, anyway, just for the art by Mark Schultz). So yes, I could…

The Conan Re-read 1: The Tower of the Elephant