ManicMan
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Decided it is probably fine to post this here:
The Robert E. Howard House & Museum in Cross Plains, Texas is the house that writer Robert E. Howard lived in for most of his life from about 13 till his death. It has been run and supported by the Robert E. Howard Foundation and 'Project Pride' which are volunteer based and right now, it needs some serious restoration and maintenance.
I have no chance of visiting it, but I think Robert E. Howard's contribution to fantasy (even though he did alot of westerns and tried to move away pulp fantasy near the end of his life into a more profitable field) can't be understated. I think pretty much all modern takes (by modern, I just mean after the 1930s) of Barbarians can be traced to various versions of his Kull and Conan, Shield Maidens are taken from Red Sonya (or more, the Marvel comics character based on it, Red Sonja), Puritaton witch finders 'Solomon Kane' (hell, @epicsatsuma recently posted his painting of Bob Olley's WHQ witch hunter who to me, is SOO Solomon Kane).
the Museum has a donation page at:
rehfoundation.org
OR, due to his close friendship with H.P. Lovecraft, the H.P.L.H.S. are hosting a fundraising raffle:
store.hplhs.org
with many prizes to be won mostly from Howard's work donated by ones like Heroic Signature, Hellos House, Hippocampus Press, Chaosium, the Robert E. Howard Foundation and H.P.L.H.S. themselves. If you want, you can even buy a raffle tickets with a facsimile of the memory bit the HPL wrote following Howard's suicide. H.P.L.H.S were originally created to make role-play reproductions and they do a damn good job. Newspaper reproductions which look like they could be scraps cut out from the 1930s etc.
I thought it was more then worth pointing this out for anyone with a bit of money who wants to donated. I haven't donated much myself but was able get a few tickets just to help them a bit. Other then that, and having brought stuff from H.P.L.H.S. and having some Howard stuff, I have no direct connection or anything (hell, I don't even live in the same country ^_^)
But felt it was worth a mention here
The Robert E. Howard House & Museum in Cross Plains, Texas is the house that writer Robert E. Howard lived in for most of his life from about 13 till his death. It has been run and supported by the Robert E. Howard Foundation and 'Project Pride' which are volunteer based and right now, it needs some serious restoration and maintenance.
I have no chance of visiting it, but I think Robert E. Howard's contribution to fantasy (even though he did alot of westerns and tried to move away pulp fantasy near the end of his life into a more profitable field) can't be understated. I think pretty much all modern takes (by modern, I just mean after the 1930s) of Barbarians can be traced to various versions of his Kull and Conan, Shield Maidens are taken from Red Sonya (or more, the Marvel comics character based on it, Red Sonja), Puritaton witch finders 'Solomon Kane' (hell, @epicsatsuma recently posted his painting of Bob Olley's WHQ witch hunter who to me, is SOO Solomon Kane).
the Museum has a donation page at:
Save the REH Museum
Donations collected here go directly to the Robert E. Howard Foundation, which will forward 100% of the proceeds to Project Pride in Cross Plains, Texas, to support restoration and maintenance of the Robert E. Howard Museum. We've created a status page where you can follow the updates:
rehfoundation.org
OR, due to his close friendship with H.P. Lovecraft, the H.P.L.H.S. are hosting a fundraising raffle:
HPLHS Raffle Ticket 2026
Buy tickets in our raffle to win one of a kind artifacts from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society and support excellent Lovecraftian causes.
store.hplhs.org
with many prizes to be won mostly from Howard's work donated by ones like Heroic Signature, Hellos House, Hippocampus Press, Chaosium, the Robert E. Howard Foundation and H.P.L.H.S. themselves. If you want, you can even buy a raffle tickets with a facsimile of the memory bit the HPL wrote following Howard's suicide. H.P.L.H.S were originally created to make role-play reproductions and they do a damn good job. Newspaper reproductions which look like they could be scraps cut out from the 1930s etc.
I thought it was more then worth pointing this out for anyone with a bit of money who wants to donated. I haven't donated much myself but was able get a few tickets just to help them a bit. Other then that, and having brought stuff from H.P.L.H.S. and having some Howard stuff, I have no direct connection or anything (hell, I don't even live in the same country ^_^)
But felt it was worth a mention here