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Robert E. Howard's Weird Works Volume 7: Beyond The Black River: Beyond the Black River v. 7 (Weird Works of Robert E. Howard) (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Wildside Press (29 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0809511371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809511372
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16.8 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The seventh volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard continues reprinting Howard's fantasy from Weird Tales and Strange Tales in order of original publication. All texts have been meticulously restored to their original pulp appearances.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Barbarism must ultimately triumph.", 13 Jan 2009
By D. C. Stolk (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This is the seventh volume in publisher Wildside Press' "The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard" series, collecting all his fantasy work for the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales. And of course, with a story like "Beyond the Black River" collected in this volume, which many consider one of the best Conan stories Howard ever wrote, what more do you need to add to put some icing on the cake? Well, a couple of other Howard stories of course!
"Beyond the Black River" is an American Frontier story transplanted into the Hyborian world of Conan the Barbarian: on the Aquilonian frontier, with our hero facing an evil Pictish wizard, who has united the tribes of Picts in driving the settlers out of the Pictish Wilderness or massacring them on the spot. The only one standing in their way? Conan the Barbarian, sword in hand. Besides being a great tale, this story also provided Howard's most-used quote: "Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the wim of circumstance. And barbarism must ultimately triumph." It's not just a reference to Howard's own beliefs; this grim outlook also powered his unsurpassed story-telling ability that many tried to imitate but all failed to do.
This volume also has the Conan stories "Jewels of Gwahlur" and "Shadows in Zamboula". The average pulp tales-plot of these stories would have long ago moved them into the dustbin of history, but Howard's writing, during the later years of his short life, had achieved such a headlong pace that it was impossible to resist. Even at it's most "pulp-ish". He usually grabbed his readers by the throat from the first sentence, and swept them along from start to finish in a avalanche of luridly painted word-images of exotic settings and blood-soaked, grim-faced heroes, towering over their enemies and crushing skulls left and right while triumphing over uninmagible odds - leaving the reader breathless at the end of the tale and ever clamoring for more stories.
Also collected in this volume - and hard to find anywhere else - is "The Challenge from Beyond", a 'round-robin' story written by C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long and a horror story placed in the Old South: "The Grisly Horror".
My only small complaint: I know, Wildside is a specialty press and I'm glad they're publishing Robert E. Howard. But come on! 35 dollars for a 190-page hardcover? That's a tad much, even if R.E. Howard is worth every cent. It could have been collected in a five-volume series. Or better yet, publish a ten-volume series of ALL his work! Many of which is out-of-print, hardly in print at all or extremely hard to get. Now that would have Howard-fans salivating at the prospect!
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