{"id":25127,"date":"2025-07-02T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25127"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:03:48","slug":"library-addition-robert-e-howards-writer-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25127","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Robert E. Howard&#8217;s Writer of the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last item of the three bought with those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25106\">Robert E. Howard Foundation books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Howard, Robert E. <b>Writer of the Dark<\/b>. Dark Carneval Press, 1986. First edition oversized  11 1\/2&#8243; x  8 3\/8&#8243; trade paperback original, #111 of 500 copies, a Near Fine copy with light streak of dampstaining to pageblock edges, slight dampstaining dye transfer from covers to first and last pages, just the start of a spine crease, and a touch of edgewear to covers. Collection of poetry and fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark--727x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"634\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark--727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark--213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark--768x1082.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark--1090x1536.jpg 1090w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark--1453x2048.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Howard-Writer-of-the-Dark-.jpg 1623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The size of the cover is so large I had to crank down the quality of the image to get Word Press to accept it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last item of the three bought with those Robert E. Howard Foundation books. Howard, Robert E. Writer of the Dark. Dark Carneval Press, 1986. First edition oversized 11 1\/2&#8243; x 8 3\/8&#8243; trade paperback original, #111 of 500 copies, a Near Fine copy with light streak of dampstaining to pageblock edges, slight dampstaining dye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56],"tags":[1973,1983,1979,44,499],"class_list":["post-25127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-robert-e-howard","tag-small-press-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25144,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions\/25144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}