Two Weeks to Howard Days!

The countdown has begun! Howard Days 2025 is only two weeks away! Robert E. Howard fans and enthusiasts will begin arriving in Cross Plains, Texas, in anticipation of enjoying themselves at The Best Two Days in Howard Fandom! And Project Pride & the City of Cross Plains, the Robert E. Howard Foundation and members of REHupa (the Robert E. Howard United Press Association) will be on hand to insure a great time will be had by all!

Many thanks go out to Teri Brown and the gang at the Cross Plains Review for the fantastic logo artwork shown above! It is already being shown around Cross Plains and The Review will open its doors Friday morning for tours and souvenir shopping. While you're there, you can go across the street for the special REH postal cancellation and then visit the Cross Plains Library to view original Howard items there. A compact REH Tour of downtown Cross Plains!

And let's not forget the theme of this year's event: 100 Years of Robert E. Howard. No, not his age; we will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of his first professional story. "Spear and Fang" was published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales - and launched the career of an original American writer who created not only the Sword & Sorcery genre of fiction, but the Weird Western as well.

One of the best things about Howard Days is how it humanizes Bob Howard. We have all his stories in print to talk about, analyze, debate and discuss; and we have lists of favorite stories, characters and themes; and we have photos of him and drawings that he did and letters that he wrote. But what Howard Days does is help us look at Bob Howard the Man: we talk about him as a person - what he was like and who he was. We do get a feel for Bob from his writings, but he becomes a real person when we sit and talk about him, speculate about him, wonder what he would have been like or what he might have done had he lived to old age. 

This is Howard Fellowship and it is the very best thing about Howard Days. Fans from all over the world come to a tiny town in Texas to visit his home and talk with like-minded people about the Life, Work and Legacy of the incomparable Robert E. Howard.

We hope to be seeing (and talking to) you in a couple of weeks. Y'all come!

Howard Days Fans Have Arrived!

 OK, so fans arriving three weeks early to Howard Days may be a bit much, we have to tell you now that it's true: the Fans are here!

Well, our feeble attempt attempt at humor notwithstanding, the Pavilion will be a cooler place for Howard Days 2025! Working in conjunction with Project Pride, the Robert E. Howard Foundation has seen to the installation of three giant ceiling fans in the roof of the Pavilion next to the Robert E. Howard Museum.

Besides being a wonderful gathering of Robert E. Howard aficionados from all over the world and The Best Two Days in Howard FANdom (get it?!) Howard Days is also notable for being "as hot as the slag heaps of Hell" (to use Bob's own words).

Three 10' fans should alleviate at least some of that situation and allow for pleasant Howard Fellowship under the Pavilion roof. Many thanks to the hard work of Mr. Paul Herman and the REH Foundation for helping cooler heads to prevail!

UP TO DATE NEWS FLASH: The Friday night REH Celebration Banquet has filled the 150 seats available. They are currently taking names for the Wait List, so if you've missed out on a reservation, email Arlene at projpride@gmail.com and she'll put you on the list. (There are always no-shows and give-ups, so don't despair). And you can still come to the Community Center and hear Guest of Honor speaker Mark Wheatley and place bids in the Silent Auction - just no chicken-fried steak for you.

Next up date in a few days!

Howard Days is One Month Away!

 We're getting down to the nitty gritty! Howard Days in Cross Plains, Texas starts one month from today! Time to start that check list and tighten up your plans for visiting the Robert E. Howard Museum June 13th & 14th. Hundreds of "Howard Heads" from all over the world will be found there, enjoying the Fellowship provided by interest in Ol' Two-Gun Bob Howard.

And there will be Howard fans starting to congregate in Cross Plains as early as Tuesday June 10, so coming early gets the festivities off to a great start. And the Museum is open on Thursday the 12th from 2 to 4. Come hang out!

First off, a reminder about reservations. The only true cost of this entire weekend is getting a ticket to the Friday night Celebration Banquet at the Cross Plains Community Center. All the rest of HD activities: tours, panels, dealers area, library viewings, postal cancellation, readings, hanging out in the Pavilion - are provided for fans at no cost!

And as the Banquet is the social event of the weekend, please send your $25 per person to Arlene Stephenson at Projpride@yahoo.com and you'll be in with the in crowd at Howard Days! As of today, there are only around 30 seats left and they're going fast, so don't get left out!

The Howard Days Silent Auction is held along with the Banquet at the American Legion Hall next to the Community Center. 100% of the proceeds from this auction goes to Project Pride and their year-round maintenance of the REH Museum. We'll be needing your help on this with donations of primarily REH items: books, paperbacks, magazines, pulps, fanzines, comics, chapbooks, 2D & 3D original art, records & CD's, items from Howard's time, Texas memorabilia - you get the idea!

You can either send these items to Project Pride, POB 534, Cross Plains, TX 76443 or you may bring items Thursday or Friday to the Museum.

Updates will be happening every few days now, so stay tuned. And even if you decide to come last minute - don't worry! It's Texas - there's plenty of room for y'all!

                                        Just a few of the items you may find at the Howard Days Silent Auction!