For the first time ever, a collection featuring all of Howard’s drafts and fragments. The third volume in a four-part series from the REH Foundation Press collects all the drafts for the last six of Howard’s Breckinridge Elkins short stories. All from Howard’s original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Howard’s raw text, including typos and weird spellings, is preserved. Footnotes describe where Howard inserted text either by typing in between lines or by hand.

These books will be print-on-demand, and the first release is a beautiful boxed set featuring four hardcover books with matching covers, gold-foiled dust jackets, and sprayed edges. Later, there will be more regular, normally priced hard- and softcover books. 

For the third volume, Howard scholar and professor Dierk Günther wrote the essay.

Contents

• iii • Acknowledgments
• ix • Editor’s Note
• ix • A Note on Language, Style, and Fidelity
• xi • Bruises, Broken Bones and LOLs • by Dierk Günther

Pistol Politics

• 5 • Editorial Notes
• 5 • Pistol Politics • (notes written by REH)
• 7 • Pistol Politics – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 13 • Pistol Politics – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 27 • Pistol Politics – draft 3 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 33 • Pistol Politics – draft 4 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 35 • Pistol Politics – draft 5 • (untitled, complete)
• 53 • Pistol Politics – draft 6 • (untitled, complete)
• 71 • Pistol Politics • (false start #1)
• 73 • Pistol Politics • (false start #2 and #3)

Evil Deeds at Red Cougar

• 79 • Editorial Notes
• 79 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar • (untitled synopsis)
• 81 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar – draft 1 • (untitled, complete)
• 99 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 119 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar – draft 2-1 • (untitled, alternate ending)
• 121 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar – draft 2-2 • (untitled, alternate ending)
• 123 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar – draft 3 • (untitled, complete)
• 143 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar • (false start #1)
• 145 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar • (false start #2)

Gents on the Rampage

• 151 • Editorial Notes
• 151 • Gents on the Rampage • (untitled synopsis)
• 153 • Gents on the Rampage – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 165 • Gents on the Rampage – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 181 • Gents on the Rampage – draft 3 • (titled and complete)
• 201 • Gents on the Rampage • (false start)

Gents in Buckskin

• 207 • Editorial Notes
• 207 • Gents in Buckskin – draft 1 • (untitled, complete)
• 215 • Gents in Buckskin – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 231 • Gents in Buckskin – draft 3 • (untitled, complete)
• 253 • Gents in Buckskin – draft 4 • (titled and complete)

Politics at Lonesome Lizard

• 277 • Editorial Notes
• 277 • Politics at Lonesome Lizard – draft 1 • (untitled, complete)
• 283 • Politics at Lonesome Lizard – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 297 • Politics at Lonesome Lizard – draft 3 • (titled and complete)

Sharp’s Gun Serenade

• 319 • Editorial Notes
• 319 • Sharp’s Gun Serenade – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 323 • Sharp’s Gun Serenade – draft 2 • (untitled, incomplete)