Our pal Morgan “The Morgman” Holmes just dropped his new review of the latest biography of Robert E. Howard on the Arkhaven Comics site. Keeping his hand in, even as he populates his own Substack site with the extensive archives of posts he did for the old REHupa blog — with plans to begin moving years of posts he did for Castalia House over, as well. I only skimmed around in the Will Oliver bio of REH, since I know almost all that material well enough. Couldn’t believe that certain of Howard’s greatest stories don’t even get a mention, much less coverage, in the main text. But he’s going for a meat-and-potatoes life, the day-to-day, not so much the life of the mind — although that creative life is the major reason anyone would be tempted to start a biography of a writer. In particular, Morgan doesn’t seem too happy with the tedious roster of ancestors, an unhappy holdover from James Boswell long ago kicking off his Life of Dr. Sam: Johnson with that sort of thing. Boswell became…
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