The longlist for the 2017 REH Foundation Awards has been announced. The awards honor achievement in Howard scholarship and in the promotion of Howard’s life and works. The Foundation’s Legacy Circle members will select the finalists, and the shortlist will be voted on by the full REHF membership. The winners will be announced at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, TX on June 10.

The Atlantean — Outstanding Achievement, Book (non-anthology/collection)

(Books may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 50,000 words, and must be substantively devoted to the life and/or work of REH. Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible.)

• BURGER, PATRICK – On the Precipice of Fascism: The Mythic and the Political in the Works of Robert E. Howard and Ernst Junger (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Publishing) Link

The Valusian — Outstanding Achievement, Book (anthology/collection)

(Books may be print or digital, must be a minimum of 50,000 words, and must be substantively devoted to the life and/or work of REH. Reprinted works without significant revisions are not eligible.)

[No eligible candidates]

The Hyrkanian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay (Print)

(Essays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays on the life and/or work of REH. Short pieces, interviews, reviews, trip reports, and other minor works do not count.)

• BUTLER, JOHN – “Howardlandia, Inc.” Weird Fiction Review #6 – Link
• CARNEY, JASON RAY—“Disintegrating Verse: The Poetry of the Shadow Modernists and the Ephemerality of the Ordinary” – The Dark Man 8.1 – Link
• CIRILLI, MATTHEW—“Literary Gothicism in Robert E. Howard’s ‘Red Nails’” – The Dark Man 8.1 – Link
• COFFMAN, FRANK – “The Poets of Weird Tales” – Spectral Realms 4 & 5 – Link
• DOWD, CHRISTOPHER —“The Irish-American Identities of Robert E. Howard and Conan the Barbarian” – New Hibernia Review 20.2 (Summer 2016) – Link
• EMERY, PHILIP—“Bersker Synecdoche: Howard’s Aesthetic of Violence” – The Dark Man 8.1 – Link
• GARSTAD, BENJAMIN—“Robert E. Howard’s Critics and the Question of Racism” – Weird Fiction Review #7 – Link
• GRAMLICH, CHARLES—“The Beautiful and the Repellent: The Erotic Allure of Death and the Other in the Writers of Weird Tales” – Weird Fiction Review #7 – Link
• HOLMES, MORGAN—“Robert E. Howard and the Clayton Magazines” – Blood ‘n’ Thunder #46-47 – Link
• HOLMES, MORGAN—“The Wild Wild West of Robert E. Howard” – Blood ‘n’ Thunder #48 – Link
• KOHOUTEK, KAREN JOAN – “The Outsider Scholar: Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Scholarly Identity” – The Dark Man 8.1 – Link
• LAI, RICK—“The Sinister Skelos: Robert E. Howard’s Demonic Wizard” – Blood ‘n’ Thunder #49-50 – Link
• McILVAINE, ROBERT—“The Influence of Joseph A. Altsheler’s Apache Gold on Howard’s ‘The Haunted Mountain’” – The Dark Man 8.1 – Link
• SHANKS, JEFFREY – “Nameless Tribes and Races of Men: Anthropological World-Building in ‘Men of the Shadows’” – Skelos #1 – Link
• SPURLOCK, J. DAVID – “Conan & Frazetta: Celebrating 50 Years of Sword & Sorcery” – San Diego Comic-Con International 2016 Souvenir Book – Link

The Cimmerian—Outstanding Achievement, Essay (Online)

(Essays must have made their first public published appearance in the previous calendar year and be substantive scholarly essays on the life and/or work of REH. Short blog posts, speeches, reviews, trip reports, and other minor works do not count.)

• ADAMS, FRED – “Esau Cairn – A Man Outside His Epoch” – Black Gate – Link
• BREAKIRON, LEE – “An American Barbarian Storms France” – REHEAPA – Link
• BREAKIRON, LEE – “Let There Be Updates” – REHEAPA – Link
• BYRNE, BOB – “Steve Harrison: REH’s Private Detective” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• COFFMAN, FRANK – “The Poem “Cimmeria” and Howard’s Use of Blank Verse” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• CORNELIUS, JIM – “Charlie Siringo — A Cowboy Detective” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• CORNELIUS, JIM – “Her Wild Old Past” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• CUPP, SCOTT A. – “The OCD of Collecting Howard” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “The Satanic Robert E. Howard (3 Parts)” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Conan and Canevin” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “The Swords of Robert E. Howard (3 Parts)” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Robert E. Howard’s Arkham” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “That Fool Olsen” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Ebony and Crystal: REH, CAS, and Fraternal Good Wishes” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Robert E. Howard and the Amateur Press (5 Parts)” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Dr. Isaac M. Howard, Pellagra, and Homeopathy” – On an Underwood No. 5  – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Conan and the Dweller (4 Parts)” – On an Underwood No. 5  – Link
• DERIE, BOBBY – “Howard, Lovecraft, & ‘The Sin-Eater’” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link
• GUENTHER, DIERK – “Gumshoes, Gats and Gals: Robert E. Howard’s Detective and Crime Stories” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• HARDY, DAVE – “Henry Plummer: The Innocents and The Vultures” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• HOLMES, MORGAN – “Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft on Immigration” – Castalia House Blog – Link
• JONES, HOWARD ANDREW – “The Ne’re-do-well Hero of “Gates of Empire” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• KOHOUTEK, KAREN JOAN – “Ishtar and Salome in the Hall of Mirrors” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• KOHOUTEK, KAREN JOAN – “When Ishtar Met the AEsir” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• KOHOUTEK, KAREN JOAN – “Others and Skull-Face” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link
• LAI, RICK—“Pools of the Black Mass” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• LOOK, DANIEL M. – “A Nontraditional Approach to the Posthumous Collaborations of de Camp and Howard” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog  – Link
• LOUINET, PATRICE – “’The Wright Hook’ (or, the origin of ‘Spear and Fang’)” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• MAYNARD, WILLIAM PATRICK – “Steve Harrison Reconsidered” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• MAZAK, KAROLY – “REH and Weird Tales” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• PRASIL, TIM – “A New Theory on Robert E. Howard’s Conrad and Kirowan Tales” – The Merry Ghost Hunter – Link
• ROEHM, ROB – “’The Howards are a moving people.’” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• ROMEO, GARY – “Those Were Books! (2 Parts)” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• TAYLOR, KEITH – “Burning Sappho” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• TAYLOR, KEITH – “The Flappers of REH’s Day” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• TAYLOR, KEITH – “Who Are Those Guys?” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• TAYLOR, KEITH – “Worship the Golden Calf” – REH: Two Gun Raconteur Blog – Link
• VICK, TODD – “An Escape from The Depression: The Fantasy Fan, Marvel Tales & The Pulps” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link
• VICK, TODD – “The Thing About Conan Is . . .” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link
• VICK, TODD – “On the Trail of Grotz: A Lone Scout, A Picture, and a Road Trip” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link
• VICK, TODD – “Cannonballs, Boxers, and Music Halls: Robert E. Howard’s Stay in San Antonio” – On an Underwood No. 5 – Link

The Venarium — Emerging Scholar

(The following candidates have recently begun making significant contributions to Howard scholarship through publications and/or presentations over the past few years. Previous winners are not eligible)

• BYRNE, BOB – Contributed to TGR Blog and organized “Discovering REH” series for Black Gate
• CARNEY, JASON RAY – Contributed article to The Dark Man; presented paper at PCA
• CIRILLI, MATTHEW – Contributed article to The Dark Man
• EMERY, PHILIP – Contributed article to The Dark Man
• GUENTHER, DIERK – Contributed to TGR blog; presented papers at PCA, ICFA, American Literature Society of Japan National Conference, and Glenn Lord Symposium
• LOOK, DANIEL – Contributed to TGR blog; presented papers at PCA, ICFA, and Glenn Lord Symposium;
• MAZAK, KAROLY – Contributed to TGR blog.
• McILVAINE, ROBERT – Contributed article to The Dark Man
• VICK, TODD – Contributed essays to On an Underwood No. 5; Editor of On an Underwood No. 5 blog; presented paper at PCA and Glenn Lord Symposium

The Stygian—Outstanding Achievement, Website

(Eligible candidates are limited to internet sites with substantive static content and material that is primarily devoted to scholarship on the life and works of Robert E. Howard. Websites must have been updated with new content at least once in the previous calendar year. Non-static social media like Facebook and Twitter would not be eligible.)

• BLACK GATE (John O’Neill) Link
• HOWARD ANDREW JONES BLOG (Howard Andrew Jones) Link
• HOWARD WORKS (Bill Thom) Link
• ON AN UNDERWOOD NO. 5 (Todd Vick) Link
• THE SWORDS OF REH FORUM (Jason Aiken, et al.) Link
• REH: TWO-GUN RACONTEUR BLOG (Damon Sasser) Link
• ROBERT-E-HOWARD.FR (Claude Ghedir and Patrice Louinet) Link
• ROBERT E. HOWARD GOODREADS GROUP (Vincent Darlage and Jim MacLachlan) Link
• REH ELECTRONIC AMATEUR PRESS ASSOCIATION (Frank Coffman, et al.) Link

The Aquilonian — Outstanding Achievement, Periodical

• THE DARK MAN (Mark Hall) Link
• REH FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER (Damon Sasser) Link

The Black Lotus – Outstanding Achievement, Multimedia

(Eligible candidates have produced a multimedia or audio/visual work or series of works, such as videos, documentaries, podcasts, animation, etc. related to the life and work of REH)

• ADKINS, JOSH, LUKE DODD, AND JON LARSON – The Cromcast (audio podcast) – Link
• AIKEN, JASON – Pulp Crazy (video podcast) – Link
• FRIBERG, BEN – Howard Days Panels (videos) – Link
• RANDALL LOBB and MARK HUSSEY – Chasing Conan (video interviews from the Riddle of Steel documentary) Link
• SHANKS, JEFFREY – REH Panel at International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (video) – Link

The Black River—Special Achievement

(The following eligible candidates have produced or contributed something special that doesn’t fit into any other category: scholarly presentations, biographical discoveries, etc.)

• FRANK COFFMAN, DIERK GUENTHER, DANIEL LOOK, JONAS PRIDA, and JEFFREY SHANKS – For participating in an REH paper session and panel at ICFA 2016.
• JASON RAY CARNEY, DIERK GUENTHER, DANIEL LOOK, and TODD VICK – For presenting papers on REH at PCA/ACA 2016
• CAVALIER, BILL “INDY” – For representing the REHF at Windy City Pulp and Paper Con
• GUENTHER, DIERK – For giving a presentation on REH at the Annual National Conference 2016 of the American Literature Society of Japan in Okayama.
• JONES, HOWARD ANDREW and BILL WARD – For their “Re-Reading Conan” series at www.howardandrewjones.com/
• KING, ROB – For creating the Cross Plains Review digital archive of back issues for the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech.
• LOUINET, PATRICE – For serving as advisor on the Conan boardgame from Monolith.
• SPURLOCK, J. DAVID – For organizing the REH and Frazetta 50th Anniversary panel at SDCC.
• TAYLOR, KEITH – For his fictional biography of Helen Taveral at the REH: Two-Gun Raconteur Blog

The Rankin — Artistic achievement in the depiction of REH’s life and/or work

(Art must have made its first public published appearance in the previous calendar year.)

• BERNAL, RICHARD – Cover art for The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins, Volume 1 – Link
• BISLEY, SIMON – Cover art for Conan the Avenger #25 depicting “A Witch Shall Be Born” – Link
• CRITCHLOW, CARL – Cover art for Conan RPG Quickstart Rules by Modiphius depicting “Beyond the Black River” – Link
• CHING, BRIAN and MICHAEL ATIYEH – Interior art for Conan the Avenger #22–25  depicting “A Witch Shall Be Born” – Link
• KEEGAN, JIM & RUTH: Artwork for “The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob,” [Various titles] – Link
• RENAUD, PAUL – Cover art for Conan the Avenger #22–24 depicting “A Witch Shall Be Born” – Link
• SMITH, ADRIAN – Artwork for Conan boardgame by Monolith (depicting various REH characters) – Link

Black Circle Award – Lifetime Achievement

(Individuals who have made significant and long-lasting contributions to REH scholarship, publishing, or the promotion of Howard’s life and works. Eligible candidates must have been publicly involved in Howard-related activities for a minimum of two decades.)

• BLOSSER, FRED
• LIN CARTER (posthumous)
• CERASINI, MARC
• De CAMP, LYON SPRAGUE (posthumous)
• HOFFMAN, CHARLES
• LOVING, BILLIE RUTH (posthumous)
• SCITHERS, GEORGE (posthumous)
• VAN HISE, JAMES
• WOLLHEIM, DONALD (posthumous)

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]