{"id":684,"date":"2007-06-10T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?page_id=684"},"modified":"2015-09-20T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T02:18:06","slug":"the-2007-cimmerian-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/the-2007-cimmerian-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2007 Cimmerian Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded for outstanding achievement in Robert E. Howard studies during the calendar year 2006 (Howard&#8217;s Centennial).<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the third annual Cimmerian Awards were announced on the evening of Friday, June 8th 2007, live at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>THE WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Atlantean<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Book By a Single Author<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>MARK FINN<\/strong><\/span>, for <em>Blood &amp; Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Valusian<\/strong><em> &#8212;<\/em> <em>Outstanding Achievement, Anthology<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DENNIS McHANEY<\/span><\/strong>, for <em>The Man from Cross Plains: A Centennial Celebration of Two-Gun Bob Howard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hyrkanian <\/strong>&#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Essay<\/em><br \/>\nFirst Place: <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BILL CAVALIER<\/span><\/strong>, for &#8220;How Robert E. Howard Saved My Life&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n6)<br \/>\nSecond Place: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEVE TOMPKINS<\/strong><\/span>, for &#8220;The Shortest Distance Between Two Towers&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n3)<br \/>\nThird Place: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>JOHN HAEFELE<\/strong><\/span>, for &#8220;<em>Skull-Face and Others<\/em> at Sixty&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n9)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Aquilonian<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Periodical<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> LEO GRIN<\/strong><\/span>, for <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> Volume 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Stygian<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Website<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MARK FINN, LEO GRIN, [redacted], STEVE TOMPKINS<\/span><\/strong>: <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> Blog<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Venarium Award <\/strong>&#8212; <em>Emerging Scholar<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> JOHN HAEFELE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black River Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Special Achievement<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DON HERRON<\/span><\/strong>, for finding both the original Kline typescript to <em>A Gent from Bear Creek<\/em> and the collection of books owned by Dr. I. M. Howard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black Circle Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Lifetime Achievement<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>RUSTY BURKE<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON HERRON<\/strong><\/span> (tie), dual inductees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black Circle Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>2008 nominee<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NOVALYNE PRICE ELLIS<\/strong><\/span>, (posthumous)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full details of this year&#8217;s Awards will soon be available in <em>The Cimmerian<\/em>&#8216;s annual Awards issue for 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE 2007 CIMMERIAN AWARDS &#8212; LIST OF NOMINEES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Atlantean<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Book by a Single Author<\/em><br \/>\n(for the purposes of this award, a book is any publication which is perfect-bound, over 50 pages, and has a stated intention of being a one-shot item)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER:<\/strong><\/span> FINN, MARK: <em>Blood &amp; Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard<\/em><br \/>\nHERMAN, PAUL: <em>The Neverending Hunt: A Bibliography of Robert E. Howard<\/em><br \/>\nTHOMAS, ROY: <em>Conan: The Ultimate Guide to the World&#8217;s Most Savage Barbarian<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Valusian<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Anthology<\/em><br \/>\n(for the purposes of this award, a book is any publication which is perfect-bound, over 50 pages, and has a stated intention of being a one-shot item)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>McHANEY, DENNIS: <em>The Man from Cross Plains: A Centennial Celebration of Two-Gun Bob Howard<\/em><br \/>\nSZUMSKYJ, BENJAMIN: <em>Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hyrkanian<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Essay<\/em><br \/>\n(Essays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calender year. Short interviews, speeches, book introductions, short reviews and other minor works do not count. Remember, you need to allocate your total number of votes <em>three times<\/em> for this category: once for First Place, once for Second, and again for Third. Also remember, for each of those places you can split your total between several essays you feel are deserving of votes.)<\/p>\n<p>ANDERSSON, MARTIN<br \/>\n&#8220;Stars and Strong Men: The Science and Cosmic Fiction of Robert E. Howard&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>ARNEY, TIMOTHY W.<br \/>\n&#8220;Howard and the Picts: A Probable Genesis for &#8216;Worms of the Earth'&#8221; (from <em>The Chronicler of Cross Plains #2<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>AVACATO, ANTHONY<br \/>\n&#8220;The Lancer Legacy of Frank Frazetta&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n5)<\/p>\n<p>BLOSSER, FRED<br \/>\n&#8220;From Ala to Zarfhaana: The Names of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Sleuths, Secrets, and Grisly Mysteries: The Detective Fiction of Robert E. Howard&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>BREAKIRON, LEE<br \/>\n&#8220;A Brownwood Memory&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>BURGER, PATRICK R.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Red Shadows&#8217; Through the Lens of Northrop Frye&#8217;s Archetypal Criticism&#8221; (from <em>The Dark Man<\/em> V2n1-2)<\/p>\n<p>BURKE, RUSTY<br \/>\n&#8220;Cross Plains, Hometown of My Heart&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Note&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n1)<br \/>\n&#8220;Robert E. Howard: New Deal Heroic Fantasist&#8221; (from <em>The Dark Man<\/em> V2n1-2)<br \/>\n&#8220;To The or Not to The&#8221; (from <em>The Chronicler of Cross Plains<\/em> #2)<\/p>\n<p>CAVALIER, BILL<br \/>\n&#8220;The Black Stranger and Why I Hate It So: A Derisive Assessment of a Conan Story Way Too Many People Think is Great&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Cross Plains, REHupa and Me&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>FIRST PLACE WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>&#8220;How Robert E. Howard Saved My Life&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n6)<\/p>\n<p>CHARLES, J. D.<br \/>\n&#8220;REH and Guns&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n1)<\/p>\n<p>COFFMAN, FRANK<br \/>\n&#8220;Robert E. Howard and Poetic Narrative: The Bardic Tradition and &#8216;Popular Modernities'&#8221; (from <em>The Dark Man<\/em> V2n1-2)<br \/>\n&#8220;Texas Talespinner: Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Ways with Words&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>COLLINS, NANCY A.<br \/>\n&#8220;Of Red-Headed Stepchildren &amp; Cojones: An Appreciation of Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Conan&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #9)<\/p>\n<p>DIRDA, MICHAEL<br \/>\n&#8220;Hacking his way from one crisis to another &#8212; the quintessential fighting man&#8221; (from <em>The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>DiTOMMASO, LORENZO, Ph.D.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Persistence of the Familiar: The Hyborian World and the Geographies of Fantastic Literature&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>FINN, MARK<br \/>\n&#8220;How to be a Howard Guerrilla&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>GOBBETT, EDWARD<br \/>\n&#8220;Chasing the Grail&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n8)<\/p>\n<p>GOODRICH, JOHN<br \/>\n&#8220;. . . From Acorns Grow: Robert E. Howard Revealed in Post Oaks and Sand Roughs&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>GRAMLICH, CHARLES, Ph.D.<br \/>\n&#8220;Robert E. Howard: A Behavioral Perspective&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>GRIN, LEO<br \/>\n&#8220;Birth and Death&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n1)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Everlasting Barbarian: REH at 100 Years&#8221; (from <em>Weird Tales<\/em> #341)<\/p>\n<p>GRUBER, CHRIS<br \/>\n&#8220;Atavists All? Howard&#8217;s Boxing Heroes As Throwbacks&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>GUARRIELLO, PIETRO<br \/>\n&#8220;Laudator Temporis Acti: History and Myth in the Works of Robert E. Howard&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>HAEFELE, JOHN D.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>THIRD PLACE WINNER:<\/strong><\/span> &#8220;<em>Skull-Face and Others<\/em> at Sixty&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n9)<\/p>\n<p>HALL, MARK<br \/>\n&#8220;Crash Go the Civilizations: Some Notes on Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Use of History and Anthropology&#8221; (from <em>The Dark Man<\/em> V2n1-2)<\/p>\n<p>HARDY, DAVID A.<br \/>\n&#8220;Indomitable Wildness, Unquenchable Vitality&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n4)<\/p>\n<p>HENDERSON, SCOTTY<br \/>\n&#8220;A Brief Publishing History of Gnome Press and the Conan Series&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>HERRIDGE, MATT<br \/>\n&#8220;Red Shadows: The Temptation of Solomon Kane&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #10)<\/p>\n<p>HERRON, DON<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;It Is My Desire'&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n9)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Shadow of the Dragon&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>Ur<\/em> Gent&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n8)<\/p>\n<p>HOFFMAN, CHARLES<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Bitter Pleasures and Swinish Stupidity&#8217;: Howard&#8217;s Take on Human Character&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>HOLMES, MORGAN<br \/>\n&#8220;Pulpcon 2006: Where&#8217;s the Howard?&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n9)<\/p>\n<p>JOSHI, S. T.<br \/>\n&#8220;Bran Mak Morn and History&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>KELSEY, RICK<br \/>\n&#8220;Birthday Bash at the Torch&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n2)<br \/>\n&#8220;Celebration of the Century&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n7)<\/p>\n<p>LENO, BRIAN<br \/>\n&#8220;Cross Plains 1967: Missed Opportunities&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Lovecraft&#8217;s Southern Vacation&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n2)<\/p>\n<p>LORD, GLENN<br \/>\n&#8220;The Junto: Being a Brief Look at the Amateur Press Association Robert E. Howard Partook In as a Youth&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;A Vulture Comes Up Snake Eyes&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n2)<\/p>\n<p>LOUINET, PATRICE<br \/>\n&#8220;Atlantean Genesis&#8221; (from <em>Kull: Exile of Atlantis<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Mysterious Isle&#8221; (from <em>The Dark Man<\/em> V3n1)<br \/>\n&#8220;NeO &#8212; The French Howard Connection&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>LUPOFF, RICHARD A.<br \/>\n&#8220;Long Ago and Far Away&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n5)<\/p>\n<p>MELCHIONE, LINDA<br \/>\n&#8220;How Wide Was the <em>Whole Wide World<\/em>?&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #9)<\/p>\n<p>MILLER, JOHN J.<br \/>\n&#8220;From Pen to Sword&#8221; (from <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>NIELSEN, LEON<br \/>\n&#8220;Pseudo Boom&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n5)<\/p>\n<p>POORE, ANN<br \/>\n&#8220;Forbidden Mirrors: Reflections on Robert E. Howard&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #9)<\/p>\n<p>RICHTER, LARRY<br \/>\n&#8220;Fate and Danger&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>[redacted]<\/p>\n<p>ROMEO, GARY<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Once I Was John Wesley Hardin!'&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n3)<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Soulless and Deadly'&#8221; (from <em>The Chronicler of Cross Plains<\/em> #2)<br \/>\n&#8220;Viagra for the Soul&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n5)<br \/>\n&#8220;What We Talk About When We Talk About B\u00ealit&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>ROSSON, JENNIFER<br \/>\n&#8220;Robert E. Howard: Barbarian &amp; Neighbor&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #9)<\/p>\n<p>SALLEY, DORIS J.<br \/>\n&#8220;Howard Who?. . .&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #9)<\/p>\n<p>SASSER, DAMON C.<br \/>\n&#8220;Echoes From Bal-Sagoth&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Mysteriously Mysterious Jenkins Gent Mystery&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n8)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Swift and the Doomed: The Corruption of the Short Version of &#8216;Three-Bladed Doom'&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #10)<\/p>\n<p>SCHWEITZER, DARRELL<br \/>\n&#8220;Two Barbarian Usurpers&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n4)<\/p>\n<p>SHEAFFER, SCOTT<br \/>\n&#8220;El Borak, the Swift&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENSON, ARLENE<br \/>\n&#8220;The Fire That Spread Around the World&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n2)<\/p>\n<p>STREET, DANNY<br \/>\n&#8220;A Death By Incarceration?&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Treasures of Our Own&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n8)<\/p>\n<p>SZUMSKYJ, BENJAMIN<br \/>\n&#8220;Cimmerian Gloves: Studying Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Ace Jessel from the Ringside&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;For the Love of Robert E. Howard&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #9)<br \/>\n&#8220;Savage Songs from a Sinful Sea: Robert E. Howard&#8217;s <em>Faring Town<\/em> Trilogy&#8221; from <em>Wormwood<\/em> #6, Spring 2006<\/p>\n<p>TETRO, MICHELE<br \/>\n&#8220;Words from the Outer Dark: The Poetical Works of Robert E. Howard&#8221; (from <em>Two-Gun Bob<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>TOMPKINS, STEVE<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Black Stone&#8217; In A Red Setting: Howard&#8217;s Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream&#8221; (from <em>The Chronicler of Cross Plains<\/em> #2)<br \/>\n&#8220;Green Roaring Tides of the Atlantean Sea: Kull&#8217;s Emerald Epic&#8221; (from <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> #10)<br \/>\n&#8220;Introduction to <em>Kull: Exile in Atlantis<\/em>&#8221; (from <em>Kull: Exile of Atlantis<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Sailor Steve Meets Winston Smith&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n9)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SECOND PLACE WINNER:<\/strong><\/span> &#8220;The Shortest Distance Between Two Towers&#8221; (from <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> V3n3)<\/p>\n<p>TROUT, STEVEN<br \/>\n&#8220;Gothic Influences&#8221; (from <em>The Man from Cross Plains<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Aquilonian<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Periodical<\/em><br \/>\n(for the purposes of this award, a periodical is any publication which has a stated intention of being a continuous series of items, even if only one issue appeared during the year in question, and even if the periodical&#8217;s length would otherwise qualify it as a book)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>GRIN, LEO: <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> Volume 3<\/p>\n<p>HALL, MARK: <em>The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SASSER, DAMON: <em>REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> and <em>Chronicler of Cross Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p>VAN HISE, JAMES: <em>Sword &amp; Fantasy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Stygian<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Outstanding Achievement, Website<\/em><br \/>\n(Nominees are limited to Internet sites with a main purpose of archiving REH scholarship. Chat groups and e-mail lists do not qualify. To get on the ballot, each website must have updated their content at least once in the past year.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>FINN, GRIN, [redacted], TOMPKINS: <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> Blog<\/p>\n<p>GRIN, LEO: The REHupa website<\/p>\n<p>HERMAN, PAUL: HowardWorks<\/p>\n<p>RIPPKE, DALE: Heroes of Dark Fantasy<\/p>\n<p>WATERMAN, EDWARD A.: The Barbarian Keep<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Venarium Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Emerging Scholar<\/em><br \/>\n(Nominees have never won a Cimmerian Award before, and in the last year displayed the beginnings of what could be a movement into the upper echelon of Howard movers and shakers. You can only be nominated for this award once, in the year you make your first big push into the wider world of Howard publishing and scholarship.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>HAEFELE, JOHN: John&#8217;s first major Howard essay appeared in December of 2005. Titled &#8220;REH in the Necronomicon Press,&#8221; it delved deeper than ever before into the wide presence of REH in that publisher&#8217;s catalogue. This year he wrote a second essay that indisputably put him at the forefront of REH scholarship, V3n9&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Skull-Face and Others<\/em> at Sixty,&#8221; an essay that dug up a host of new information about the early years of Howard publishing. And all of this was capped by a Cimmerian Library booklet dedicated to nudging August Derleth scholarship forward. Few can compete with the depth and breadth of John&#8217;s Howardian research during the past year, and he&#8217;s only getting started.<\/p>\n<p>LENO, BRIAN: Brian first made a name for himself in <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> by handily outpointing HPL scholar S. T. Joshi in The Lion&#8217;s Den &#8212; we haven&#8217;t heard from poor S. T. since! In February of 2006 Brian published &#8220;Lovecraft&#8217;s Southern Vacation,&#8221; presenting a host of intriguing theories about the story &#8220;Pigeons from Hell,&#8221; and how REH may have written it with Lovecraft more firmly in mind than we ever gave him credit for in the past. This one essay generated more wordage in The Den than any other last year, in the process giving <em>Cimmerian<\/em> readers a wonderful education about the relationship between HPL and REH. Finally in the December <em>TC<\/em> Leno brings us &#8220;Diary of a Bad Man,&#8221; his look into one of the strangest of Howard fans. In a single year, Brian vaulted himself into the center of the Howardian maelstrom, and by the look of it he&#8217;s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>STREET, DANNY: Danny hails from England, and has been a member of REHupa for several years. But in 2006 he made large strides in the public arena, publishing several notable Howard essays. In <em>The Cimmerian<\/em> Danny gave us the important piece &#8220;Treasures of Our Own,&#8221; which brought to light several new copies of the world&#8217;s most prized Howard book, 1937&#8217;s <em>A Gent from Bear Creek<\/em>. He also managed to research and revise the total number of known copies of this book in existence, bumping up the number to an even dozen. Add in his contribution to Dennis McHaney&#8217;s <em>Man from Cross Plains<\/em> book, and it&#8217;s clear that Danny is set to become a frequently seen name on the Contents pages of your favorite Howard publications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black River Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Special Achievement<\/em><br \/>\n(The following nominees have produced something special that doesn&#8217;t fit into any other category: scholarly art, biographical discoveries, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>BURKE, RUSTY and ANCIANO, MARCELO: for their heroic efforts in preserving the bid for Howard at the World Fantasy Convention, without which REH and Texas would have been passed over as the themes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>HERRON, DON: for finding both the original Kline typescript to <em>A Gent from Bear Creek<\/em> and the collection of books owned by Dr. I. M. Howard.<\/p>\n<p>KEEGAN, JIM and RUTH: for Jim and his wife Ruth&#8217;s continued writing and illustrating of &#8220;The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob,&#8221; a well-received comic strip running in Dark Horse&#8217;s Conan comic book, using real research from Howard&#8217;s letters.<\/p>\n<p>SASSER, DAMON: for discovering that the short version of &#8220;Three-Bladed Doom&#8221; that had been passed off as &#8220;pure Howard&#8221; for thirty years actually suffered from serious editorial emendations in all of its published appearances, and for publishing the pure-text for the very first time in his essay &#8220;The Swift and the Doomed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STREET, DANNY: for finding two additional copies of the ultra-rare Herbert Jenkins <em>A Gent from Bear Creek<\/em>, for his research cataloging the total number of extant copies in existence, and most of all for his confirming that there was indeed a &#8220;cheap edition&#8221; of the Jenkins <em>Gent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black Circle Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Lifetime Achievement<\/em><br \/>\n(Given only sporadically as warranted, The Black Circle of Howard Fandom constitutes entering a highly select group of luminaries. To appear on this ballot, nominees must have at least twenty documented years in Howard fandom and receive at least 25% of all votes cast in a past year nominating cycle. The resulting nominees are put on the ballot for a winner-take-all vote. In years where no one has earned a place on the ballot, no award is given. Awards given posthumously will go to the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>BURKE, RUSTY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>WINNER: <\/strong><\/span>HERRON, DON<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Black Circle Award<\/strong> &#8212; <em>Nominees for next year&#8217;s Award<\/em><br \/>\n(use your votes here to nominate people for next year&#8217;s Black Circle Award ballot. All nominees who get at least 25% of this nominating vote will appear on the ballot. Once someone gets onto the Black Circle ballot &#8212; like Rusty and Don have &#8212; they are removed from the nominating list below, and they remain on the final winner-take-all ballot above from then on, until they either win or stand alone on the ballot and fail a 60% approve vote, in which case they are bumped back down to the nominating ballot for possible reappraisal in future years.)<\/p>\n<p>BLOSSER, FRED<br \/>\nBYRNE, JACK (posthumous)<br \/>\nCAVALIER, BILL &#8220;INDY&#8221;<br \/>\nCERASINI, MARC<br \/>\nDe CAMP, LYON SPRAGUE (posthumous)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NOMINEE:<\/strong><\/span> ELLIS, NOVALYNE PRICE (posthumous)<br \/>\nHOFFMAN, CHARLES<br \/>\nLOVING, BILLIE RUTH (posthumous)<br \/>\nMAREK, JOE<br \/>\nMcCOLLUM, RICK<br \/>\nMcHANEY, DENNIS<br \/>\nPRICE, ROBERT<br \/>\nSASSER, DAMON<br \/>\nSCHWEITZER, DARRELL<br \/>\nSCITHERS, GEORGE<br \/>\nTHOMAS, ROY<br \/>\nTROUT, STEVE<br \/>\nWAGNER, KARL EDWARD (posthumous)<br \/>\nWEINBERG, ROBERT<br \/>\nWRIGHT, FARNSWORTH (posthumous)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded for outstanding achievement in Robert E. Howard studies during the calendar year 2006 (Howard&#8217;s Centennial). The winners of the third annual Cimmerian Awards were announced on the evening of Friday, June 8th 2007, live at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains. 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