Edited by Leo Grin | Illustrated by Jason Castagna
40 pages

This issue was printed only in a deluxe edition, numbered 1–75, using a black linen cover with foil-stamped blood-red text.

DELUXE COPIES DESTROYED: 0

Features a comprehensive series of indexes and supplementary material covering the first year of The Cimmerian (Volume 1, Numbers 1–5, 2004). Includes Title Indexes, Author and Subject Indexes, Contributor’s Guide, a Catalogue of Art and more.

This special index issue is only available in a deluxe edition, and is the perfect capstone to your deluxe Volume 1 collection.

EXCERPTS:

As time passes, the booklet you are holding is likely to become a nightmare to acquire for the Howard completist.

— from “Envoi — 2004”

Olmec spoke further, of dark and mysterious matters, of black magic and wizardry conjured out of the black night of the catacombs, of weird creatures invoked out of the darkness for horrible allies.

— from “Red Nails” by Robert E. Howard in the Catalogue of Art

Hardly the first poem written in memory of Howard, it nevertheless takes a place next to efforts by Emil Petaja and Manly Wade Wellman as one of the best.

— from “Guide to the Contributors”