Howard Collector 02 (Spring 1962.Glen Lord)[CosmicJukebox]

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The Howard Collector Spring 1962

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} ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Burlcett News from the Coleman Democrat- Voice, April 25, 1935. The One Black Stain from the Barlow microfilm. The Sku.ll in the Clouds from The Junto, January 1930.

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The Howard Collector U SPRING 1962 VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 Contents Editorial Notes Burkett News The One Black Stain Letter Incidents The Skull in the Clouds Fiction Index Addenda: Verse Index Errata 2 Mrs. T. A. Burns . 3 Robert E. Howard . 6 Robert E. Howard . 10 Tevis Clyde Smith . 13 Robert E. Howard . 15 . 19 . 35 . 36 The Howard Collector is edited and published by Glenn Lord, P. O. Box 775, Pasadena, Texas. Single copy 60 cents. English agent: Pete Mansfield, 14 Whiteford Road, Slough, Bucks., England. Copy- right © 1962 by Glenn Lord. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.

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Editorial Notes Response to the first issue of The Howard Collector has been favorable. A few copies still remain for those interested. Burkett News was excerpted from a column of that title about news happenings in the small town of Burkett, Texas, which appeared in the Coleman Democrat- Voice, a weekly newspaper of Coleman, Texas. Tevis Clyde Smith, the author of Incidents, was a close friend of Howard, a collaborator ( Red. Blades of Black Cathay) and an author in his own right, having pub- lished FRONTIER’S GENERATION as early as 1931 . August Derleth’s new anthology of macabre verse, FIRE AND SLEET AND CANDLELIGHT (Ark- ham House, 1961), contains two poems by Howard, The Sands of Time and Earth-Born. The former appeared in the first issue of THC while the latter had not been pre- viously published. Howard’s short story Pigeons From Hell was telecast on Thriller last June 6. 2

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Burkett News BY MRS. T. A. BURNS Among home town boys who have made good, we are proud to mention Robert E. Howard, son of Dr. and Mrs. I. M. Howard of Cross Plains, one time local residents. Robert, a little tow-headed boy, with his dog. Patches, roamed these hills and probably dreamed of the time when he would carve his name even higher than he could then carve it, which was on house tops, trees or what not. His favorite “brand” as he expressed it, was X — and it, too, can still be seen cut in sandstone and various other places where he played. We recall another pet of Robert’s, a coon, with which the family usually had an after dinner romp, but the coon became so mischievous that it was returned to its native haunts. Always studious and possessing a vivid imagina- tion he began writing when a mere boy. Historical facts concerning Coleman County were published by this paper under the caption, “The Ghost of Camp Colorado.” Other of his works have appeared in: Weird Tales; Oriental Stories; Magic Carpet; Top Notch; Action Stories; Sport Stories; Ghost Stories; Strange Tales; The Ring; Frontier Times; Texaco Star; Strange Detective Stories; Super- 3

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Detective Stories; Fight Stories; Argosy; Thrilling Adventures; [ack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine; etc. Quoting from the editorial “Under the Reading Lamp” of the April 8, 1935 issue of The Republican, Palouse, Washington, the following is said: “It is seldom we pause in this column to consider an author aside from some particular novel he has written, but in this ease we pause to compliment an author who never, to our knowledge, has written a book. “Robert E. Howard, instead of novels, has turned his typewriter in the direction of novelettes and short stories, since we have had the pleasure of read- ing his output. And pleasure it has been, to the extent that we, in common with a growing percent- age of the reading public will purchase any magazine in which his name appears with the table of contents. “Mr. Howard, for all his lack of longer stories and novels, has a command of the English language that can only be termed ‘vivid’. While his stories are primarily action stories, with a setting of the odd and usually supernatural for background, his characters are one of the things that makes his stories stand out from the ordinary run of action. His characters are living men and breathing women, and so well are they portrayed that before the story is finished the reader feels more than a speaking acquaintance with each. -I

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR “Mr. Howard usually approaches his stories from the racial standpoint, if one may call it that. That is, human races, and especially those of long ago, are often the subject of his stories. He frequently places his characters and actions somewhere in the dim and uncertain past, perhaps shortly after the de- struction of fabled Mu and brings those unhistorical, perhaps, but interesting times to life again in a most entertaining manner. “At present Mr. Howard’s writings are usually confined to the better class of magazines called ‘pulps’, and from which, we venture to predict, he will climb to national recognition in much the same way that Raphael Sabatini did. “Indeed there is considerable likeness between the two writers. Both write in a fluid, fluent style, both are able to build a sometimes complicated, but always entertaining plot, both are fond of going into the past for their settings and material, and lastly, both write blood-and-thunder action stories. “In case of an idle hour to spend enjoyably under the Reading Lamp, we can think of nothing more enjoyable than a magazine with one of Robert E. Howard’s stories therein. Give him a trial.” 5

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The One Black Stain Sir Thomas Doughty, executed at St. Julian’s Bay, 1578 BY ROBERT E. HOWARD They carried him out on the barren sand where the rebel captains died; Where the grim grey rotting gibbets stand as Magel- lan reared them on the strand, And the gulls that haunt the lonesome land wail to the lonely tide. Drake faced them all like a lion at bay, with his lion head upflung: “Dare ye my word of law defy, to say that this traitor shall not die?” And his captains dared not meet his eye but each man held his tongue. Solomon Kane stood forth alone, grim man of a sombre race: “Worthy of death he well may be, but the court ye held was a mockery, “Ye hid your spite in a travesty where Justice hid her face. “More of the man had ye been, on deck your sword to cleanly draw “In forthright fury from its sheath, and openly cleave him to the teeth — “Rather than slink and hide beneath a hollow word of Law.” 6

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Hell rose in the eyes of Francis Drake. “Puritan knave!” swore he, “Headsman, give him the axe instead' HE shall strike off yon traitor’s head!” Solomon folded his arms and said, darkly and sombrely : “I am no slave for your butcher’s work.” “Bind him with triple strands!” Drake roared in wrath and the men obeyed, hesitantly, as men afraid, But Kane moved not as they took his blade and pinioned his iron hands. They bent the doomed man to his knees, the man who was to die; They saw his lips in a strange smile bend; one last long look they saw him send At Drake, his judge and his one-time friend, who dared not meet his eye. The axe flashed silver in the sun, a red arch slashed the sand; A voice cried out as the head fell clear, and the watchers flinched in sudden fear, Though t’was but a sea-bird wheeling near above the lonely strand. “This be every traitor’s end!” Drake cried, and yet again; Slowly his captains turned and went, and the admiral’s stare was elsewhere bent 7

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Than where cold scorn with anger blent in the eyes of Solomon Kane. Night fell on the crawling waves; the admiral’s door was closed; Solomon lay in the stenching hole; his irons clashed as the ship rolled, And his guard, grown weary and overbold, laid down his pike and dozed. He woke with a hand at his corded throat that gripped him like a vise; Trembling he yielded up the key, and the sombre Puritan stood up free, His cold eyes gleaming murderously with the wrath that is slow to rise. Unseen to the admiral’s cabin door went Solomon from the guard, Through the night and silence of the ship, the guard’s keen dagger in his grip; No man of the dull crew saw him slip in through the door unbarred. Drake at the table sat alone, his face sunk in his hands; He looked up, as from sleeping — but his eyes were blank with weeping As if he saw not, creeping, Death’s swiftly flowing sands. He reached no hand for gun or blade to halt the hand of Kane, 8

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Nor even seemed to hear or see, lost in black mists of memory, Love turned to hate and treachery, and bitter, cankering pain. A moment Solomon Kane stood there, the dagger poised before, As a condor stoops above a bird, and Francis Drake spoke not nor stirred, And Kane went forth without a word and closed the cabin door. 9

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T /j/Z/jr Robert E. Howard to -Lactic/ Harold Preece, no date Well, Harold, how did you like my story, The Voice of El-Lil, in the new Oriental Stories? I’m very well pleased with the magazine myself. But listen — if you’ve read the story, you probably noticed a sentence which referred to non-Aryan peoples in Connaught AND Galway. That’s the printer’s mis- take, not mine; I wrote “Connaught and Galloway,” meaning, of course, the province in Scotland. I don’t know why it was changed. I find tales of the East extremely fascinating, and am beginning to believe that the old, old theory of Turkish-Gaelic affinity is well borne out. The races have much in common — cruelty, treachery, loyalty, fatalism, spend-thriftiness, beserk fighting rage, a love of music and poetry. I lately sold a tale to Oriental Stories in which I created the most somber character I have yet attempted. The story is called Hawks of Outremer, and I got $120 for it. The character is Cormac Fitz- Geoffrey: “Clean shaven and the various scars that showed on his dark, grim face lent his already for- midable features a truly sinister aspect. His low, broad forehead was topped by black, square cut hair that contrasted strongly with his cold blue eyes. Son of a woman of the O’Briens and a renegade 10

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Norman knight, GoefFrey the Bastard, in whose veins, it is said, coursed the blood of William the Con- queror, Cormac had seldom known an hour’s peace or ease in all his thirty years of violent life. Hated by the Irish and despised by the Normans he had payed back contempt and ill treatment with savage hate and ruthless vengeance.” One of the main things I like about Farnsworth Wright’s magazines is you don’t have to make your heroes such utter saints. I took Cormac FitzGeoffrev into the East on a Crusade to escape his enemies and am considering writing a series of tales about him. The tang of fall is in the air and the whisper of autumn in the skies. Summer is waning into the yellow leaves of all the yesterdays, and the heart of me is thin and old. The sky is deep and blue and mysterious with the changing of the seasons, and strange thoughts stir deep in me, but age forever steals on me in the autumn of the year, and though I am young, my soul is old and wavering like a thread-bare garment outworn. All that is deep and gloomy and Norse in me rises in my blood. I would go east into the sunshine and the nodding palm trees, but I bide and the dream of the twilight of the gods is on me, and the dreams of cold and misty lands and the ancient pessimism of the Vikings. 11

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR It seems to me, especially in the autumn, that that one vagrant Danish strain that is mine, pre- dominates above ali my Celtic blood. It is in the autumn that the wanderlust grips me, and my sleep- ing dreams are not of the lazy palm fringed lagoons, the desert caravans, the loud bazaars and the tropic jungles to which my waking thoughts turn, but of cold blue seas beneath a clear and frosty sky, of clean sandy fens stretching from the cold foam to blue mountains, of boats racing through the flying spray, and fishers’ nets, shining like silver on the shore. I never saw such things; yet they gleam plainly in my dreams. I see them with the eyes of old Samuel Waltser, who knew them and loved them in his youth, aye, and with the eyes of a thousand generations of blue-eyed, red-haired fishermen and sailors and Vikings behind him, who were his an- cestors, and who were no less ancestors of mine. Ah, well, I will not weary you with my vagaries. Bob 12

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Incidents BY TEVIS CLYDE SMITH 1. The Meeting With Set I met a serpent wise with years, Who knew the world’s old ways, For he had lived for many nights, And he had lived for many days. “Set, will you answer this for me, Sharing a secret between us two, For there is something I need to know: If he was he — and you are you?” 2. The Answer of Set “I met a werewolf in the glen: The werewolf passed me by. I saw a fighter in the ring, And watched the fighter die. I saw a man unsheathe his sword, And plunge it in his foe; I heard an arrow find its mark When speeding from the bow.” 13

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR 3. The Parting With Set I met a serpent within whose skull Dark wisdom reached to ages dim And I asked him a question I wished to know: “Was he you, and are you him?” There was a rustle in the grass, Leaving no other sound To break the stillness of the night And the answer sought and found. Copyright © 1962 by Tevis Clyde Smith. All rights reserved. 14

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The Skull in the Clouds BY ROBERT E. HOWARD The Black Prince scowled above his lance, and wrath in his hot eyes lay, “I would that you rode with the spears of France and not at my side today. “A man may parry an open blow, but I know not where to fend; “I would that vou were an open foe, instead of a sworn friend. “You came to me in an hour of need, and your heart I thought I saw; “But you are one of a rebel breed that knows not king or law. “You — with your ever smiling face and a black heart under your mail — “With the haughty strain of the Norman race and the wild, black blood of the Gael. “Thrice in a night fight’s close-locked gloom my shield by merest chance “Has turned a sword that thrust like doom — I wot ’twas not of France! “And in a dust-cloud, blind and red, as we charged the Provence line “An unseen axe struck Fitzjames dead, who gave his life for mine. 15

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR “Had I proofs, your head should fall this day or ever I rode to strife. “Are you but a wolf to rend and slay, with naught to guide your life? “No gleam of love in a lady’s eyes, no honor or faith or fame?” I raised my face to the brooding skies and laughed like a roaring flame. “I followed the sign of the Geraldine from Meath to the western sea “Till a careless word that I scarcely heard bred hate in the heart of me. “Then 1 lent my sword to the Irish chiefs, for half of my blood is Gael, “And we cut like a sickle through the sheafs as we harried the lines of the Pale. “But Dermod O’Connor wild with wine, called me a dog at heel, “And I cleft his bosom to the spine and fled to the black O’Neill. “We harried the chieftains of the south; we shattered the Norman bows. “We wasted the land from Cork to Louth; we trampled our fallen foes. “But Conn O’Neill put on me a slight before the Gaelic lords, “And I betrayed him in the night to the red O’Donnell swords. 16

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR “I am no thrall to any man, no vassal to any king. “I owe no vow to any clan, nor faith to any thing. ‘Traitor— but not for fear or gold, but the fire in my own dark brain; “For the coins I loot from the broken hold I throw to the winds again. “And I am true to myself alone, through pride and the traitor’s part. “I would give my life to shield your throne, or rip from your breast the heart “For a look or a word, scarce thought or heard. I follow a fading fire, “Past bead and bell and the hangman’s cell, like a harp-call of desire. “I may not see the road I ride for the witch-fire lamps that gleam; “But phantoms glide at my bridle-side, and I follow a nameless Dream.” The Black Prince shuddered and shook his head, then crossed himself amain: “Go, in God’s name, and never,” he said, “ride in my sight again.” The starlight silvered my bridle-rein; the moonlight burned my lance As I rode back from the wars again through the pleasant hills of France, 17

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR As I rode to tell Lord Amory of the dark Fitzgerald line If the Black Prince died, it needs must be by another hand than mine. 18

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Fiction Index This index is probably nearly complete; I would like to hear from anyone with information not listed herein. An index of unpublished fiction is planned for a future issue of THC. Although Ghost Stories and The Ring are supposed to have contained ma- terial by Howard, nothing has been located in the former under any known pen name, while the editor of the latter states that his records do not list Howard as having published in The Ring. It is pos- sible that Howard contributed regional boxing news to a column in the magazine. Information about original titles of stories was found in Howard letters and so cannot be considered complete. The abbreviation (aj) indicates that a publication was an amateur journal. The Cross Plains Revieio is the weekly newspaper of Cross Plains, Texas. Although Robert E. Ward is a questionable pen name, information is listed on stories under that by-line. The Breckenridge Elkins stories that appeared in A GENT FROM BEAR CREEK were slightly re- vised from original magazine versions, in such in- stances where the story had previous publication. This revision consisted mostly of slight additions to give a semblance of continuity to previously in- dependent stories. 19

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR For the sake of brevity the following abbrevia- tions following a title indicate that it appeared in one of the following Howard collections: AGFRC — A GENT FROM BEAR CREEK (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1937) SF— SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS (Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1946) CC— CONAN THE CONQUEROR (Gnome Press, New York, 1950; Ace Books, New York, 1953; T. V. Boardman, London, 1954) SC— THE SWORD OF CONAN (Gnome Press, New York, 1952) KC— KING CONAN (Gnome Press, New York, 1953) COC— THE COMING OF CONAN (Gnome Press, New York, 1953) CB— CONAN THE BARBARIAN (Gnome Press, New York, 1954) TC— TALES OF CONAN (Gnome Press, New York, 1955) Published Fiction PATRICK ERVIN Alleys of Darkness Magic Carpet, January 1934 Teeth of Doom (see “The Tomb’s Secret”) Tomb’s Secret, The (original title “Teeth of Doom”) Strange Detective Stories, February 1934 20

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR ROBERT E. HOWARD Alleys of Peril Fight Stories, January 1931 Almuric Weird Tales, May, June-July, August 1939 Apache Mountain War, The Action Stories, December 1935 Beyond the Black River — KC Weird Tales, May, June 1935 Black Canaan — SF Weird Tales, June 1936 Black Colossus — CB Weird Tales , June 1933 Black Hound of Death Weird Tales, November 1936 Black Stone, The — SF Weird Tales, November 1931 GRIM DEATH, edited by Christine Campbell Thomson, Selwyn, & Blount, Ltd., London, 1932 SLEEP NO MORE, edited by August Derleth, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1944 Weird Tales, November 1953 Black Talons (original title “Talons in the Dark”) Strange Detective Stories, December 1933 Black Vulmea’s Vengeance Golden Fleece, November 1938 Black Wind Blowing Thrilling Mystery, June 1936 Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth, The ( see “The Gods of Bal-Sagoth” ) 21

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Blood of Belshazzar, The Oriental Stories, Autumn 1931 Blood of the Gods Top-Notch, July 1935 Blow the Chinks Down Action Stories, October 1931 Breed of Battle Action Stories, November 1931 Bulldog Breed Fight Stories, February 1930 Cairn on the Headland, The — SF Strange Tales, January 1933 Avon Fantasi/ Reader No. 7 THE MACABRE READER, edited by Donald A. Wollheim, Ace Books, Inc., New York, 1959 Champ of the Forecastle Fight Stories, November 1930 Children of the Night Weird Tales, April-May 1931 Circus Fists Fight Stories, December 1931 College Socks Sport Story, September 25, 1931 Conan the Conqueror (see “The Hour of the Dragon”) Conquerin’ Hero of the Humboldts, The Action Stories, October 1936 Country of the Knife, The Complete Stories , August 1936 Crowd-Horror Argosy- Allstory Weekly, July 20, 22 1929

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Cupid From Bear Creek — AGFBC Action Stories, August 1935 Curly Wolf of Sawtooth, The Star Western, September 1936 Dark Man, The Weird Tales, December 1931 Weird Tales, September 1954 Dark Shanghai Action Stories, January 1932 Daughter of Erlik Khan, The Top-Notch, December 1934 Dead Remember, The Argosy, August 15, 1936 Fantastic, December 1961 Devil in Iron, The — CB Weird Tales, August 1934 Dig Me No Grave Weird Tales, February 1937 Dream Snake, The Weird Tales, February 1928 Drums of the Sunset The Cross Plains Revieiv, November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, December 7, 14, 21, 1928; January 4, 1929 Educate or Bust (see “Sharp’s Gun Serenade”) Evil Deeds at Red Cougar Action Stories, June 1936 Fangs of Gold (original title “People of the Serpent”) Strange Detective Stories, February 1934 Fearsome Touch of Death, The 23

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Weird Tales, February 1930 Feud Buster, The — AGFBC Action Stories, June 1935 Fire of Asshurbanipal, The — SF Weird Tales, December 1936 Fist and Fang Fight Stories, May 1930 Footfalls Within, The Weird Tales, September 1931 Garden of Fear, The Marvel Tales, July-August 1934 THE GARDEN OF FEAR, Robert E. Howard and others, Crawford House, Los Angeles, 1945 Fantastic, May 1961 Gates of Empire (originally announced for the April 1934 Magic Carpet which never appeared) Golden Fleece, January 1939 General Ironfist Jack Dempseys Fight Magazine, June 1934 Gent From Bear Creek, A — AGFBC Action Stories, October 1934 Gent From the Pecos, A Argosy, October 3, 1936 Max Brand’s Western Magazine, January 1950 (under title “Shave That Hawg!’) Gents on the Lynch Argosy, October 17, 1936 Gods of Bal-Sagoth, The Weird Tales, October 1931 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 12 24

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR (under title “The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth”) Gods of the North (see also note on “The Frost Giant’s Daughter”) The Fantasy Fan (aj), March 1934 Fantastic Universe, December 1956 Good Knight, The Sport Story, December 25, 1931 Graveyard Rats Thrilling Mystery, February 1936 Grisly Horror, The (original title “Moon of Zambebwei”) Weird Tales, February 1935 Guns of the Mountain — AGFBC Action Stories, May-June 1934 Haunter of the Ring, The Weird Tales, June 1934 Hawk of the Hills Top-Notch, June 1935 Hawks of Outremer Oriental Stories, Spring 1931 High Horse Rampage Action Stories, August 1936 Hills of the Dead, The — SF Weird Tales, August 1930 Horror From The Mound, The — SF Weird Tales, May 1932 Hour of the Dragon, The — CC (appeared as book under title CONAN THE CONQUEROR) Weird Tales, December 1935; January, February, March, April 1936 25

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR House of Arabu, The (see “The Witch From Hell’s Kitchen”) Hyena, The Weird Tales, March 1928 In the Forest of Villefere Weird Tales, August 1925 Iron-Jaw Dime Sports, April 1936 Iron Man, The Fight Stories, June 1930 Iron Shadows in the Moon (see “Shadows in the Moonlight”) Jewels of Gwahlur — KC Weird Tales, March 1935 Kings of the Night — 5F Weird Tales, November 1930 Knife-River Prodigal Cowboy Stories, July 1937 Lion of Tiberias, The Magic Carpet, July 1933 Lord of Samarcand Oriental Stories, Spring 1932 Lost Race, The Weird Tales, January 1927 Man-Eating Jeopard, A — SF Cowboy Stories June, 1936 The Cross Plains Review, June 19, 1936 Man With The Mystery Mitts Sports Story, October 25, 1931 Man on the Ground, The Weird Tales, July 1933 26

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Meet Cap’n Kidd — AGFBC Mirrors of Tuzun Thune, The — SF, COC Weird Tales, September 1929 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 2 Moon of Skulls, The Weird Tales, June, July 1930 Moon of Zambebwei ( see “The Grisly Horror” ) Mountain Man — AGFBC Action Stories, March-April 1934 Names in the Black Book Super-Detective Stories, May 1934 Night of Battle Fight Stories, March 1932 “No Cowherders Wanted” Action Stories, September 1936 Old Garfield’s Heart Weird Tales, December 1933 People of the Black Circle, The — SC Weird Tales, September, October, November 1934 People of the Dark Strange Tales, June 1932 People of the Serpent (see “Fangs of Gold”) Phoenix on the Sword, The — SF, KC Weird Tales, December 1932 Pigeons From Hell Weird Tales, May, 1938 Weird Tales, November 1951 Pilgrims to the Pecos Action Stories, February 1936 27

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Pistol Politics Action Stories, April 1936 Pit of the Serpent, The Fight Stories, July 1929 Pool of the Black One, The — SC Weird Tales, October 1933 Queen of the Black Coast — COC Weird Tales, May 1934 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 8 Rattle of Bones — SF Weird Tales, June 1929 Red Nails — SC Weird Tales, July, August-September, October 1936 Red Shadows Weird Tales, August 1928 Riot at Bucksnort, The Argosy, October 31, 1936 Road to Bear Creek, The — AGFBC Action Stories, December 1934 Rogues in the House- — -SF, COC Weird Tales, January 1934 TERROR BY NIGHT, edited by Christine Camp- bell Thomson, Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., London, 1934 MORE NOT AT NIGHT, edited by Christine Campbell Thomson, Arrow Books, Ltd., Lon- don, 1961 Sailor’s Grudge Fight Stories, March 1930 Scalp Hunter, The — AGFBC Action Stories, August 1934 28

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Scarlet Citadel, The— SF, KC Weird Tales, January 1933 Sea Curse Weird Tales, May 1928 Shadow Kingdom, The- — SF, COC Weird Tales, August 1929 Shadow of the Vulture, The Magic Carpet, January 1934 Shadows in the Moonlight — CB (original title “Iron Shadows in the Moon”) Weird Tales, April 1934 Shadows in Zamboula — SF, CB Weird Tales, November 1935 Sharp’s Gun Serenade — AGFBC (appeared in book under title “Educate or Bust”) Action Stories, January 1937 Shave That Hawg! (see “A Gent From The Pecos”) Sign of the Snake, The Action Stories, June 1931 Skull-F ace — SF Weird Tales, October, November, December 1929 Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1952 Skulls in the Stars— SF Weird Tales, January 1929 Slithering Shadow, The — SC Weird Tales, September 1933 Slugger’s Game, The Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine, May 1934 Sluggers of the Beach Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine, August 1934 29

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Son of the White Wolf Thrilling Adventures, December 1936 Sowers of the Thunder, The Oriental Stories, Winter 1932 Spear and Fang Weird Tales, July 1925 Stand Up and Slug! (see “Waterfront Fists”) Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts — AGFBC Swords of Shahrazar Top-Notch, October 1934 Talons in the Dark (see “Black Talons”) Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin (see “The Voice of El-Lil”) Texas Fists Action Stories, May 1931 Thing on the Roof, The Weird Tales, February 1932 TNT Punch, The Action Stories, January 1931 Tower of the Elephant, The — SF, COC Weird Tales, March 1933 Treasures of Tartary, The Thrilling Adventures, January 1935 Valley of the Worm, The — SF Weird Tales, February 1934 Vikings of the Gloves Fight Stories, February 1932 Voice of El-Lil, The Oriental Stones, October-November 1930 30

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Avon Fantasy Reader No. 14 (under title “Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin”) Vulture’s Sanctuary Argosy, November 28, 1936 Max Brand’s Western Magazine, June 1950 War on Bear Creek— AGFBC Action Stories, April 1935 Waterfront Fists Fight Stories, September 1930 Fight Stories, Summer 1940 (under title “Stand Up and Slug!”) When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear — AGFBC While Smoke Rolled Double- Action Western, December 1956 Wings in the Night — SF Weird Tales, July 1932 Winner Take All Fight Stories, July 1930 Witch From Hell’s Kitchen, The (original title “The House of Arabu”) Avon Fantasy Reader No. 18 Witch Shall Be Bom, A — CB Weird Tales, December 1934 Avon Fantasy Reader No. 10 Wolfshead — SF Weird Tales, April 1926 Worms of the Earth — SF Weird Tales, November 1932 KEEP ON THE LIGHT, edited by Christine Campbell Thomson, Selwyn & Blount, Ltd., 31

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR London, 1933 Weird Tales October 1939 Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1953 ROBERT E. HOWARD— Edited by L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP Black Stranger, The — KC (appeared in book under title “The Treasure of Tranicos”) Fantasy Magazine, March 1953 Frost Giant’s Daughter, The— COC (virtually identical to “Gods of the North”) Fantasy Fiction, August 1953 God in the Bowl, The — COC Space Science Fiction, September 1952 Treasure of Tranicos, The (see “The Black Stranger”) ROBERT E. HOWARD and ROBERT ENDERS ALLEN Boot-Hill Payoff Western Aces, October 1935 ROBERT E. HOWARD and L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP ( Posthumous collaboration; de Camp rewrote these stories into Conan tales from the original un- published Howard oriental stories) Blood-Stained God, The — TC (from the original story' “The Trail of the Blood- Stained God”) Conan, Man of Destiny (see “The Road of the Eagles”) Flame-Knife, The— TC (from the original story “Three-Bladed Doom”) 32

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Hawks Over Shem — TC (from the original story “Hawks Over Egypt”) Fantastic Universe, October 1955 Road of the Eagles, The — TC (from the original story “The Road of the Eagles”) Fantastic Universe, December 1955 (under title “Conan, Man of Destiny”) ROBERT E. HOWARD and A. MERRITT, H. P. LOVECRAFT. C. L. MOORE and FRANK BELKNAP LONG The Challenge From Beyond ( Howard’s portion begins with paragraph beginning: “From that final lap of senselessness. . . .” and ends immediately preceding paragraph begin- ning: “Out of the tent into the pale August. . . .”) Fantasa Magazine (aj), September 1935 BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP, H. P. Love- craft, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1943 ROBERT E. HOWARD and TEVIS CLYDE SMITH Red Blades of Black Cathay Oriental Stories, February-March 1931 ROBERT E. HOWARD and FRANK THURSTON TORBETT Thunder of Trumpets, A Weird Tales, September 1938 SAM WALSER Desert Blood Spicy-Adventure Stories, June 1936 Dragon of Kao Tsu, The Spicy-Adventure Stories, September 1936 33

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Murderer’s Grog Spicy-Aclventure Stories, January 1937 Purple Heart of Eriik, The S picy-Adventure Stories, November 1936 She Devil Spicy-Adventure Stories, April 1936 ROBERT E. WARD Knockout Action Stories, July 1932 Fight Stories, Summer 1940 (under title “The Long Count”) Long Count, The (see “Knockout”) 34

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Addenda: Verse Index Tided Headings Ballad of Baibars, The "The Sowers of the Thunder” Old Ballad "The Scarlet Citadel,” Chaps. 1, 3 Out of the Old Land ("by Justin Geoffrey”) "The Thing on the Roof’ Road of Kings, The "The Phoenix on the Sword,” Chaps. 2, 5 "The Scarlet Citadel,” Chap. 2 Song of Belit, The "Queen of the Black Coast,” Chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Song of the Bossonian Archers "The Scarlet Citadel,” Chap. 5 Song of Bran, The "Kings of the Night” Song of the Red Stone, The "The Blood of Belshazzar” Unpublished Verse ROBERT E. HOWARD Surrender - 44 35

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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR Errata: The Howard Collector No. 1 Page 23, line 7 : for Dreams of' Nineveh - 20 - ACE, de- lete A CE Page 28, line 2 : for Inside 4* Science Fiction Advertiser, read Inside 4- Science Fiction Advertiser ( aj ) Page 30, line 9: for Dawn Flanders, A, read Dawn in Flanders, A Page 30, line 19: for Dungeon Open, A, read Dungeon Opens, A 36

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All fled — all done, so lift me on the pyre The Feast is over and the lamps expire.

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