Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard edited by Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale

Format: Softcover, 295 pages

Publisher: MonkeyBrain Books, November, 2006

ISBN: 1932265228

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This year marks the centenary of the birth of pioneering Texan pulp writer Robert E. Howard, and in celebration of the event Scott Cupp and Joe R. Lansdale have assembled a collection of original stories by Texas writers inspired by Howard, written in his style, or featuring Howard or his creations as characters.

Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard is a co-publication of MonkeyBrain Books and the Fandom Association of Central Texas with the cooperation of Paradox Entertainment, and will be a limited-edition anthology. Each attendee of the 2006 World Fantasy Convention, hosted this year by FACT, will be presented a copy, but at this time there are no plans to make copies commercially available, and no plans for a trade edition.

Contents:

Dean Andersson - Slim and Swede and the Damned Dead Horse

Neal Barrett, Jr. - The Heart

Jayme Blaschke - Prince Koindrindra Escapes

Lillian Stewart Carl - The Diamonds of Golconda

Bill Crider and Charlotte Laughlin - The Heart of Ahriman

Scott Cupp - One Fang

Brad Denton - The King Comes to Texas

Mark Finn - A Whim of Circumstance

Melissa Mia Hall - The Sea of Grass on the Day of Wings

Rick Klaw and Paul Miles - A Penny a Word

Ardath Mayhar - The Pillar in the Mist

Michael Moorcock -The Roaming Forest

Chris Nakashima-Brown - The Bunker of the Tikriti

Lawrence Person - The Toughest Jew in the West

James Reasoner - Wolves of the Mountain

Jessica Reisman - Two Hearts in Zamora

Carrie Richerson - The Warrior and the King

Chris Roberson - The Jewel of Leystall

Howard Waldrop - Thin, On the Ground

Livia Washburn - Boomtown Bandits

Gene Wolfe - Six From Atlantis

cover illustration by Gary Gianni.