Last month’s Howard Days, the annual celebration of the life and work of the father of sword-and-sorcery, Robert E. Howard, in Howard’s hometown of Cross Plains, Texas, drew fans from around the world to honor one of the greatest mythmakers of the modern age. Part of the yearly celebration are the awards given by the Robert E. Howard Foundation for excellence in Howard Scholarship of all kinds. Everything from printed media to blog posts, visual art, scholarly essays, even a audio drama, can be seen in the list below — the REHF Awards cast a wide net for Howard-related material, which is only fitting for a writer whose work has had such a broad and lasting impact on our culture. Below you can see the winners, with links where appropriate to their winning works. Congratulations to them (and a special shout out to Tales From the Magicians’ Skull contributor Jason Ray Carney!), as well as all the nominees, and a heartfelt salute to everyone’s whose creative endeavors in the field of Howard Studies and the larger world of sword-and-sorcery in general help to fan the flames of this “earthier sort of fantasy.” THE ATLANTEAN—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, BOOK Dennis McHaney (Ed.): Robert E. Howard in the Pulps (Lulu.com) THE HYRKANIAN—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, ESSAY John Bullard & Bill Cavalier: “‘Is That Robert E. Howard?’: A Look At Two Photographs” THE CIMMERIAN—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, SCHOLARSHIP Willard M. Oliver: “Howard and Strange Tales” in The Dark Man vol. 12, no. 2, Mar 2022 THE VENARIUM—EMERGING SCHOLAR Antonio Marco Collares (Brazilian scholar focusing on Robert E. Howard, involved in many projects) THE BLACK LOTUS—OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, WEB-BASED Ståle Gismervik: The REH World website and associated articles, interviews, and resources hosted there. THE COSTIGAN—LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT Andrew Leman & Sean Branney (writers): Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Black Stone THE RANKIN—ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT Mahmud Asrar – cover/page artist for King Conan #1-6 (Marvel) THE BLACK RIVER—SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Jason Ray Carney – Editor of The Dark Man, organizer of SpiralCon and the Trigon Awards, promoted Robert E. Howard through a TED Talk and an article in the LA Review of Books – “Reading Sword-and-Sorcery to Make the Present Less Real” THE BLACK CIRCLE AWARD Fred...