Hello Friends,
I just thought I'd properly introduce myself. I, like you, are a fan
of Smith and thought I'd join this group...
:)
Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Benjamin S. from Western
Australia. I am a member of the Robert E. Howard United Press
Association (REHupa), the Esoteric Order of Dagon (E.O.D) the H. P.
Lovecraft equivalent, as well as being the creator and moderator of
my own Amateur Press Association, S.S.W.F.T (Sword & Sorcery as well
as Weird Fiction Terminus). I have edited five projects that have
been (or will be) released by the end of this year, with another
four in production. They are as follows; Fritz Leiber & H. P.
Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark - ( published through Wildside Press)
and co-edited with S. T. Joshi; Robert E. Howard: Power of the
Writing Mind - (published through Mythos Books); Hyborian Heresies:
A Scholarly Excavation into the World of Robert E. Howard, by Dale
E. Rippke (published through WildCat Books); Fantasy Commentator:
Fritz Leiber Theme Issue - (to be published through A. Langley
Searles) as guest editor; and, The Fantastic Worlds of Karl Edward
Wagner - (to be published through James Van Hise) as well as co-
edited by Van Hise. I am also the general editor of a new fantasy
journal, entitled "Studies in Fantasy Literature" (published through
Seele Brennt).
I just thought I'd make you aware that in the first issue of my new journal, STUDIES IN FANTASY LITERATURE #1, contains an essay by independent scholar Steve Tompkins entitled "Coming in from the Cold: "Incursions of Outsideness" in Smith's Hyperborea". It is truly an excellent essay. For more info, go directly to: [
www.seele-brennt.com] . It's a sister journal to Scott Connor's excellent LOST WORLDS journal.
Anyway, I will let you be now. I look forward to chatting with you
all and hope to make some new friends! This place looks awesome...
:)
Cheers & God Bless
Benjamin S.