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The Cthulhu Mythos in the Selected Works of HP Lovecraft and Robert E
The Cthulhu Mythos in the Selected Works of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard Marek Durčák Bachelor’s Thesis 2020 ABSTRAKT Cílem této práce, je ukázat Mýtus Cthulhu ve vybraných dílech H. P. Lovecrafta a Roberta E. Howarda. V první části jsou základní informace o těchto dvou autorech, se zaměřením na to, co mělo největší vliv na jejich literární díla. Ve druhé části práce je popsán Mýtus Cthulhu. Je vysvětleno, co to znamená, z čeho se skládá a jak vznikl. Poslední část práce je zaměřena na ukázání Mýtusu Cthulhu ve vybraných dílech H. P. Lovecrafta a Roberta E. Howarda. Je zde dán důraz na díla Roberta E. Howarda, s tím že se v nich často odkazuje na díla Lovecrafta. Bylo zjištěno, že I když Howard používal mnoho Lovecraftových prvků Mýtusu Chulhu, on sám mýtus do značné míry rozšířil. Také bylo zjištěno, že styl Howardových příběhů se v mnohém od Lovecrafta liší. Klíčová slova: Lovecraft, Howard, Cthulhu, Mythos, Nekronomikon, Okultismus ABSTRACT The aim of this work is to show the Cthulhu Mythos in the selected works of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. In the first part is basic information about these authors, with the focus on what influenced their works. In the second part of this work, the Cthulhu Mythos is described. It is explained what it means, what it consists of and how it was created. The last part of this work focuses on showing the Cthulhu Mythos in the selected works of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Emphasis is on the works of Robert E. -
Financial Market Presentation
FINANCIAL MARKET PRESENTATION 18 DECEMBER 2017 IP AND INVESTMENT DISCLAIMER – FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS This presentation contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements for many reasons. These forward-looking statements reflect current views with respect to future events and are by their nature subject to significant risk and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in future. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward- looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that our future results, level of activity or performance will meet these expectations. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the forward-looking statements. Unless we are required by law to update these statements, we will not necessarily update any of these statements after the date of this presentation, either to conform them to actual results or to changes in our expectations. IP AND INVESTMENT SUMMARY • Acquisition of 50% of the interactive rights for a portfolio of IP, the largest being Conan the Barbarian • Immediate benefits: 50% royalty cost reduction on Age of Conan and Conan Exiles -
The Nemedian Chroniclers #16 [AE14]
REHeapa Autumnal Equinox 2014 By Lee A. Breakiron A CIMMERIAN WORTHY OF THE NAME, PART FOUR Editor Leo Grin, in the July 2006 issue of his prozine The Cimmerian (Vol. 3, #7), effuses about “the most anticipated event of the entire centennial year: Howard Days. Yes, it was everything we dreamed it would be. Over three hundred attendees. Three days of non-stop Howard action. Thousands of dollars in auction items and swap-met swag. Stories and guests and Vietnam flashbacks, oh my. It’s all here within these pages.” (p. 3) He’d covered the two previous annual Robert E. Howard Days celebrations himself, but for this event he decided to pass off the duty to another fan in order to get a fresh perspective. His choice was newspaperman Rick Kelsey of Dallas, who brought his reporting experience to bear with good effect in his “Celebration of the Century,” his 23-page, photo-studded article covering the epochal happening. 1 REHeapa Autumnal Equinox 2014 And quite an event it was. Expanded to 3 days from 2 meant more panels, get-togethers, and things to do and talk about. It meant larger crowds and new faces, and its economic boon couldn’t have come at a better time for REH’s hometown of Cross Plains, Texas, whose residents were still recovering from the effects of the wildfire of December, 2005, though they had cleaned up so well that one had to look twice to see evidence of the devastation. Project Pride’s Era Lee Hanke testified to the larger-than-normal crowds. -
By Lee A. Breakiron the SASSER ZINES, PART
REHEAPA Summer Solstice 2011 By Lee A. Breakiron THE SASSER ZINES, PART TWO The eighth issue of REH: Two-Gun Raconteur (REH: TGR) appeared in the fall of 2005, 3 years and four issues into the 21st century revival of editor and publisher Damon C. Sasser’s long-running Robert E. Howard semi-pro fanzine, and the third issue of five on a semiannual schedule. Coming in at 40 pages plus tan-tinted covers, it presents art by Gene Day (front cover), Esteban Maroto (back cover), Bill Cavalier (inside covers), Greg Ruth, Stephen Fabian (with a six-page portfolio on REH’s heroes and heroines), and David Burton, in a run of 250 copies with a cover price of $10.50. The Howard feature is the African adventure “Black Country.” Advancing the frontiers of REH scholarship, as always, is Glenn Lord with his article “Herbert Klatt: The Fourth Musketeer” on one of the more obscure of Howard’s correspondents. The name of Herbert C. Klatt did not surface until Lord identified him as the fourth attendee, besides REH and his other literary- minded friends and correspondents, Tevis Clyde Smith, Bob, and Truett Vinson, of a wild party at Smith’s uncle’s ranch on 26 December, 1925, the one time Howard and Klatt met. Klatt was the inspiration of the character “Hubert Grotz” in REH’s semi-autobiographical novel Post Oaks and Sand Roughs (Grant, 1990). Much of the information in the article comes from a slender file of letters from Klatt to Smith that Smith’s nephew, Roy Barkley, made available to Lord after Smith’s death in 1984. -
By Lee A. Breakiron a CIMMERIAN WORTHY of the NAME, PART FIVE
REHeapa Winter Solstice 2014 By Lee A. Breakiron A CIMMERIAN WORTHY OF THE NAME, PART FIVE With the fourth volume (2007) of his prozine The Cimmerian, editor Leo Grin returned to a bimonthly publishing schedule. The distinctive color for this volume’s embellishments and limited edition covers is blue and the new illustrator is Andrew Cryer. Launching the volume is REHupan Damon Sasser with his article “Underwood for the Ages,” his account of the recovery of what is supposedly the very Underwood typewriter that Robert E. Howard used to type most of his stories. Though nearly four million of this Model 5 typewriter were manufactured between 1915 and 1931, one particular exemplar surfaced when Californian fan and collector Jay Corrinet advertised in Bay Area newspapers for persons who might have items related to REH that they might sell to him. In response, an 85-year-old man named Edward R. Farrell in San Jose wrote Corrinet, claiming to have Howard’s actual typewriter, having bought it from REH’s father, Dr. Isaac M. Howard, in 1937 when Farrell handled Underwood sales and service in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California for 40 years. Farrell said that, according to his records, the machine was built in 1928 and that there was a second typewriter in damaged condition that was not worth repairing, presumably the one REH cannibalized for parts, the latter mentioned in our previous installment. [1] Sasser reports that the second machine was lost when it was stolen from the lady who inherited most of Dr. Howard’s furniture, which included REH’s writing desk. -
By Lee A. Breakiron the CROMLECHERS
REHEAPA Vernal Equinox 2012 By Lee A. Breakiron THE CROMLECHERS In the premiere issue of Cromlech: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Criticism, dated spring 1985, editor Marc A. Cerasini states: What you hold in your hand is a labor of love as well as one of necessity, for there exist many gross misconceptions about the nature of Howard’s work. For too long phrases like “ mere adventure writer” and “simple headlong narrative drive” have been passed off as genuine criticism of Howard’s works. … Robert E. Howard was more, much more, than a better•than-average pulp hack. At his worst he was quite bad ̶ but an artist must be judged by his best efforts, and Howard was, above all, an artist. [1] Perhaps so, but the journal was subtitled “a pulp thriller and political journal” on its title page, so evidentally Cerasini did not intend to shy away from controversy, though it would prove to be more philosophical than political. Incidentally, a “cromlech” is a prehistoric megalithic monument like a dolmen or a stone circle, a reference doubtless meant to evoke fantastic visions of prehistory, as well as Crom, god of the ancient Cimmerians. So began a three-issue run of the fanzine Cromlech, a semi-pro zine that was the first to exclusively feature serious, scholarly articles about Howard. It helped fill the void for serious fans after the Howard Boom of the 1970s, whose expiration has been attributed to a market glut and a lack of unpublished Howard [2], but which had more to do with the Conan pastiches of L. -
The Nemedian Chroniclers #18 [SS15]
REHeapa Summer Solstice 2015 By Lee A. Breakiron A CIMMERIAN WORTHY OF THE NAME, PART SIX In his editorial to the February, 2008, issue (Vol. 5, #1) of his prozine The Cimmerian, Leo Grin reminds his readers about past claims that there is nothing new to say about Robert E. Howard, claims now rendered obsolete by the past 30-odd issues of TC, which have been full of new discoveries about the man and novel interpretations of his works. Grin declares that he would be purveying at least one more year of such quality fare despite (and not mentioning) the blows his commitment to REH fandom had taken, as we discussed in out last installment. Socar Myles is the volume’s new artists and amethyst is the color of its embellishments and limited edition covers. The first essay of the issue, filling half of it, is “Newer Barbarians” by former REHupan Steve Tompkins, who starts by quoting REH’s statement, in a 1932 letter to H. P. Lovecraft, that “My study of history has been a continual search for newer barbarians, from age to age.” (p. 4) The article is a long rumination about what might have happened if that search had continued. Would Howard have thrown himself into stories, epics, and even screenplays about the winning of the West – and the loss of the frontier – or might he have penned historical novels or found some way to return to weird fiction? Perhaps he would have found “more barbarians in further ages undreamed of, perhaps in the dark millennia after the Hyborian Age but before the rise of the proto-Homeric ‘sons of Aryas.’” (p.