Howard also wrote a travelogue of the 1935 New Mexico trip in two letters to Lovecraft and Derleth. Howard had a great interest in the Lincoln County War and its most famous fighter, Billy the Kid, and wrote of the events in many letters to H.P.
Patrice Louinet, in his essay 1 on Howard’s writing of the Conan tales argued that the feud of the inhabitants of Xuchotl was inspired by Howard’s June 1935 trip to New Mexico, when he and Truett Vinson stopped at the town of Lincoln, home of the famous Lincoln County War, to see the sites of the notorious conflict. Howard’s two trips to New Mexico in 19 with his good friend Truett Vinson provided ideas for his stories. As is well known, Howard used a lot of real life historical incidents and places as inspiration to write many of his stories. Howard’s final Conan story, “Red Nails”, relates how Conan and his fellow adventurer Valeria come upon a giant, totally enclosed city, Xuchotl, where the inhabitants have divided up into two factions and are in a deadly war to wipe each other out. Limited to 3500 copies.įour full page black and white illustrations.Ĭhapter title black and white illustrations.īlack and white spot illustrations end some chapters.We’ve got another guest post by John Bullard for you today: Most of the changes were done to make the text more “politically correct.” Racial slurs, names, and other “potentially offensive” remarks and phrases were edited, as well as some tampering with adjectives, deletions or words, and some punctuation changes. Sadly several unnecessary editorial alterations to the text have been made in these book. The series lapsed before publishing the last five of the stories and three of the fragments. These volumes accompanied by their cases are a rare find. On the right is a picture of 10 of the books with the publisher’s quarter red cloth over gray boards. These where published from 1974 to 1989 containing one or two stories per volume.
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