{"id":101,"date":"2006-07-01T01:55:52","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2006-07-01T01:55:52","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:55:52","slug":"howard-at-the-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/howard-at-the-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard at the Post Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

While spending the requisite hours at the post office mailing packages containing the June issue and Volume 2 of The Cimmerian Library (yes, they are finally <\/em>on the way), I was surprised to bump into not one but two people who had heard of Robert E. Howard.<\/p>\n

First, my teller asked me what was in the packages. “Books,” I said.<\/p>\n

“What kind of books?”<\/p>\n

“Sort of like a literary journal about an author.”<\/p>\n

“Neat. Which author?”<\/p>\n

“Robert E. Howard.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, I think I’ve heard of him. That guy who wrote the Conan books, right? I read those when I was a kid.”<\/p>\n

It’s not very often you get that kind of name recognition for REH. After a bit more small talk, the guy asked, “So what’s in the latest issue.”<\/p>\n

“Oh some stuff about a festival that happens each year in his home town.”<\/p>\n

That’s when a customer at the next teller pipes up with, “That happens in Cross Plains, right?” Now I start wondering if I’m on candid camera.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, Cross Plains.”<\/p>\n

“OK. I’m into pulps and stuff, that’s why I’ve heard about it. Bob Weinberg told me he went down there a few years ago.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, that’s right, he was Guest of Honor.”<\/p>\n

“He owns the rights to Weird Tales<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

“Well, not anymore. He sold them to Wildside Press.”<\/p>\n

“Oh, really?”<\/p>\n

The final exchange was kind of fun. The guy asks, “So how many people do you get down there? Most pulp gatherings like that have only twenty people or so.” I was able to proudly reply, “A slow year is about a hundred, but this year is Howard’s centennial, so we had about three hundred.” The guy, probably used to PulpCon or Burroughs Dum-Dums, seemed suitably impressed.<\/p>\n

Like Mark said a few posts back, Howard’s name is seeping into various nooks and crannies of the literary world. Growing his name and reputation, one reader at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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