HPLHS Raffle
Save the Robert E. Howard House
From time to time, the HPLHS conducts a raffle to raise funds for a great cause. It came to our attention that the home of Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas is in serious need of restoration and needs funds to do it. So we've reached out to some friends in the community and assembled our biggest prize package yet.
Who was Robert E. Howard? He was a friend and correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft. He was a fellow author of pulp fiction. And where Lovecraft created Cthulhu, Howard created Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Solomon Kane and other great characters in his all-too-short writing career. The Robert E. Howard Foundation maintains his home as a museum in Texas. Time has taken its toll on the house, and together we can raise some money to help with its restoration.
How Does It Work?
Our raffle tickets are a mere $2. Buy as many as you like. For each ticket that you purchase, we will enter one copy of your invoice number into our drawing. When the stars are right, we'll draw invoice numbers out of our Mystical Cardboard Box. If you win, we send you one of our fabulous prizes. The more tickets you buy, the greater your chance of winning a great item and the more you contribute to a great cause. Our last raffle allowed us to donate more than $5,000 to Doctors Without Borders.
Two Options
- Raffle Tickets - buy them individually, get as many as you like. You'll be entered in the raffle, but we won't send you anything unless you win.
- "In Memoriam" Pack - We've made a facsimile version of the brief memory of Robert E. Howard that HPL wrote following Howard's suicide in 1936. If you order this, it comes with 25 raffle tickets AND we will mail you the facsimile document.
- Mix and Match - why not both? Boost your chances of winning by getting the Pack with some extra tickets.
A PRIZE PACK BIGGER THAN CONAN'S BICEPS!
Our friends and colleagues in the Lovecraft community have generously helped us assemble our biggest assortment of prizes yet.
From Heroic Signatures - where legends come to life
- Savage Sword of Conan Book vol 1
- Conan the Barbarian Book vol 1-3
- The Tower of the Elephant Illustrated
- Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring
- Hyborian Age jigsaw puzzle
- Conan, Valeria, Subotai (War Paint) from Super7 - action figures
- City of the Dead - novel by John C. Hocking
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plus a selection of additional Robert E. Howard items
From Helios House - publisher of beautiful original volumes
- Miskatonic Missives Volume 1 - 3 book set
- Miskatonic Missives, Vol. 1, Book 3 - a letter from HPL to REH
- The Gentleman from Angell Street - a new edition of the HPL biography
From Hippocampus Press - specializing in the Lovecraft circle
- A Means to Freedom - the correspondence between HPL and REH
- Two Gun Bob - literary criticism of REH
- Weird Talers
- REH: a Closer Look - an examination of the life and works of REH
From Chaosium - publishers of fine games
- Call of Cthulhu Starter Set - dive into the game that started it all
- RuneQuest Starter Set - a game of mythic adventure
- Malleus Monstrorum - an encyclopedia of gods and monsters
- Trail of Tsathoggua - a Call of Cthulhu in Hyperborea
From the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press - publishers REH's works
- Pictures in the Fire- this is a first edition, #300 of 300 copies printed - a gem for collectors
From Stygian Fox - publishers of Call of Cthulhu game supplments and more
- Occam's Razor- a collection of modern day CoC scenarios
From Tim Lonegan, HPLHS member and collector of extraordinary stuff:
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Weird Tales, April 1938 containing the HPL poem 'To Clark Ashton Smith' and the REH poem 'The Singer in the Mist', condition Very Good
- Weird Tales, May 1938. Contains the HPL poem 'Where Once Poe Walked' and the REH novelette 'Pigeons from Hell', condition Good+
- Weird Tales, November 1938. Contains the HPL story 'The Nameless City' (this is a reprint) and the REH poem 'Recompense', condition Fine
From the HPLHS - purveyors of Lovecraftian fun
- The Spark Devil
- The H.P. Lovecraft Experience
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HPLHS Black Stone Pack - featuring Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Black Stone, an autographed script from creators Sean Branney & Andrew Leman, and a custom Black Stone nightlight by Andrew Leman.
PREVIOUS RAFFLES
Our previous raffles generated thousands of dollars for the H.P. Lovecraft Providence Statue project, for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico, and to benefit indigenous Alaskans and earthquake recovery in Turkey. Winners from across the world have won very special items made by the HPLHS. Take a chance and buy a ticket - you'll be supporting a great cause and you might be our next winner.
FAQ
Q: I bought a ticket in the last raffle. Am I still eligible to win this prize?
A: No. Each raffle is self-contained. When we have a winner, then we toss out all the non-winning entries and start afresh.
Q: What are my odds of winning?
A: There's only so many HPL fans out there willing to support a great cause like this. Our first raffle had odds of 1:265. This raffle has more prizes than any of our previous raffles so your odds of winning have never been better.
Q: I live overseas. Would you really ship these items to me for free?
A: Yup. It's not so much that it's free - but the fine folks at the HPLHS will pay for the shipping costs.
Q: I bought ten tickets but I only got one PDF of a raffle ticket with one number on it. What gives?
A: The PDF is really just a souvenir so you get something for your purchase. We actually use your invoice number to track your entry in the raffle and we use it to notify you if you won. We do keep track of how many tickets each customer buys and we if you bought ten tickets, we put ten slips with your invoice number in the Mystic Cardboard Box of Eldritch Wonders from which we draw a winner. You might win multiple prizes.
Q: When will these prizes actually be awarded?
A: We plan on drawing the winners on March 15, 2026 - the anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft's death.
Q: Is it true that card-carrying HPLHS members can get a bonus stamp for buying tickets?
A: Yes! Any official card-carrying HPLHS member who buys 50 or more tickets qualifies for a special bonus stamp for their membership card.
'Krom!' Conan ejaculated, as REH wrote probably far too often. Such a tempting batch of goodies being offered in this raffle. I'm not a gambling man, and don't expect to win, but I spent most of my youth reading Conan and Solomon Kane, so its a way of recognising that contribution to my own literary education with a donation.
I like the reproduction of the letter with the typewriter marks. Nice tribute.
Probably the finest online raffle ticket I've never actually seen that I've ever had the pleasure of reviewing.
Bought and fingers crossed, I need some good stuff in my life.
My copy of Miskatonic Missives (Vol. 1) – Collector’s Slipcase Edition and The Blood-Red Sphinx accessories from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society arrived about a week ago — and they are absolutely fantastic.
The amount of work that has gone into this set is impressive. The books themselves are beautifully produced, filled with annotations and color photos, and the extras are great fun: replica newspaper pages, a detective badge, photos of the actress featured in the radio play, and more. It really feels like opening a small archive rather than just a book set.
Honestly, my quick photos don’t do them justice.
One of the reasons I finally pulled the trigger is that the HPLHS is currently running a raffle to support preservation of the Robert E. Howard House — and this very book set is one of the prizes. I bought a few raffle tickets, but I’ve had my eye on this set for quite a while and figured… why not.
