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Robert E. Howard’s writings

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Search and combine catalogue filters700 Works

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Written span1920–1936

19201936

Published span1922–2026

19222026

Howard received$8–$300

$8$300

Uses Howard's net receipt when known; older recorded income is used only as a fallback. Leave at the full span to include Works with unknown income.

1109 A.D.

consists of notes Howard prepared while working on historical fiction for Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine in the early 1930s.1 textual state0 Characters1 publicationExplore Work →Writing

44-40 or Fight

44-40 or Fight is a lost short story.1 textual state0 Characters0 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Blazing Sun in a Blazing Sky

A Blazing Sun in a Blazing Sky is an unfinished Western fragment about two young gunmen traveling the Arizona ranges while fearing that Miguel Gonzales may be hiding…2 textual states0 Characters5 publicationsExplore Work →Schoolwork

A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman

A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman is a humorous school story about the mischievous Tub and a prank on the laundryman Fe Chu Chong in a small…2 textual states0 Characters8 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Dream

2 textual states0 Characters16 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Elkins Never Surrenders

A Elkins Never Surrenders is an early Breckinridge Elkins form of the story later reworked around Bearfield Elston.5 textual states10 Characters8 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Elston to the Rescue

Published as:The Curly Wolf of SawtoothA Elston to the Rescue is a Bearfield Elston reworking of the earlier Breckinridge Elkins story A Elkins Never Surrenders.2 textual states0 Characters13 publicationsExplore Work →Schoolwork

A Faithful Servant

A Faithful Servant was written while Howard attended Cross Plains High School and is dated February 9, 1921.2 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Schoolwork

A Fishing Trip

A Fishing Trip is a short humorous tale in which Weary McGrew and a companion go fishing near Crystal City, Texas, and discover that Weary has hooked something…2 textual states0 Characters5 publicationsExplore Work →Short Story

A Gent from Bear Creek

Published as:A Gent from Bear Creek (short story)A Gent from Bear Creek is both the title of an original Breckinridge Elkins short story and of the later fix-up novel assembled from revised stories plus new…7 textual states21 Characters15 publicationsExplore Work →Novel

A Gent from Bear Creek

The novel A Gent from Bear Creek was assembled from revised Breckinridge Elkins stories together with new linking and original material.8 textual states126 Characters19 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Gent from the Pecos

Also published as:Shave that Hawg!Sold to Munsey by Binder for $80.00 (Howard earned $72) circa June 1936.8 textual states0 Characters15 publicationsExplore Work →Play

A Glass of Vodka - A Play

1 textual state0 Characters2 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Horror in the Night

2 textual states0 Characters9 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Korean Night

A Korean Night is an earlier Sailor Costigan draft connected with the “Yellow Cobra” story sequence.1 textual state0 Characters0 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Man and a Brother

A Man and a Brother is a short humorous story, roughly 300 words long, set in the town of Malville.1 textual state0 Characters4 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Man-Eating Jeopard

A Man-Eating Jeopard is a Buckner Jeopardy Grimes story.3 textual states0 Characters22 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Man of Peace

A Man of Peace follows Slade O’Shane, a smaller man in a community that prizes size and brute strength.3 textual states0 Characters5 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Matter of Age

A Matter of Age is represented in the current source packet by title only; no reliable descriptive or publication information accompanies this legacy Introduction.2 textual states0 Characters7 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A New Game for Costigan

A New Game for Costigan is a Steve Costigan story connected with a later Dennis Dorgan reworking.5 textual states0 Characters8 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A New Game for Dorgan

Manuscript bylinePatrick ErvinA New Game for Dorgan is the Dennis Dorgan form of a story first logged by Kline as A New Game for Costigan.2 textual states0 Characters0 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Night Ashore

A Night Ashore is currently represented in the source packet by title only; no reliable descriptive information accompanies this legacy Introduction.1 textual state0 Characters0 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Pirut Story

A Pirut Story is a brief humorous piece built almost entirely around exaggerated pirate dialect and an exchange involving Captain Alfonzo Goofus and the captain of another ship.2 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Power Among the Islands

A Power Among the Islands is an unfinished South Seas story opening aboard the schooner Marquesas.2 textual states0 Characters13 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Room in London

A Room in London survives as an outline or list of notes rather than a completed story.2 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A South Sea Storm

2 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Student of Sockology

Published as:College SocksCollege Socks is the Kid Allison form of the story represented by the Work A Student of Sockology.4 textual states0 Characters8 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Thunder of Trumpets

A Thunder of Trumpets, a collaboration by Robert E.5 textual states0 Characters26 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Touch of Color

2 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Essay

A Touch of Trivia

A Touch of Trivia is a personal essay in which Howard ranges across his reading, historical interests, education, writing habits, and the influences that shaped his view of…2 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Tough Nut to Crack

2 textual states0 Characters4 publicationsExplore Work →Schoolwork

A Twentieth-Century Rip Van Winkle

A Twentieth-Century Rip Van Winkle follows William McGarthy, a Texan who leaves home to travel the world, spends twenty years isolated on a Pacific island, and returns to…2 textual states0 Characters5 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Two-Fisted Santa Claus

Manuscript bylinePatrick ErvinPlaying Santa Claus is the Dennis Dorgan form associated with A Two-Fisted Santa Claus and is credited to Patrick Ervin in the surviving agency material.6 textual states0 Characters11 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Unique Hat

A Unique Hat is a very short humorous piece—about 177 words—presented as an exaggerated sales pitch for a supposedly remarkable hat.2 textual states0 Characters4 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

A Witch Shall Be Born

A Witch Shall Be Born is a Conan story set in Khauran, where Queen Taramis is displaced by her twin sister Salome and Conan is drawn into the…5 textual states0 Characters185 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Adventures in Arabia

Adventures in Arabia is a brief item believed in the legacy catalogue to be connected with Howard’s school work.1 textual state0 Characters3 publicationsExplore Work →

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DEVELOPMENT HISTORY

REH Writings
changelog

A running record of public catalogue, editorial, research and migration changes. The newest release is shown first.

0.76.1-alpha2026-08-19CURRENT

Fix the dark REH Writings admin theme so it applies to every REH Writings submenu/shortcut screen, not only the top-level dashboard. This removes the light-background/light-text mismatch seen on Publication work links, Full-text & Character research, Manuscripts & TSS and similar shortcut pages.
Restyle Publication work links summary cards for the dark admin theme.
Split the Publication work-link audit into Needs review, Verse not in Writings, and All affecting publications views. The default review queue now excludes expected unmapped verse.
Clarify that unmapped verse is expected while REH Writings does not yet catalogue most poems; Publications simply omits the Howard writing link until a reviewed Writings identity exists.
Keep source Works that are not used by any publication out of the on-screen review queue while retaining them in the complete unresolved CSV audit.
No schema, bridge contract, Publications Integration API, or seed changes. Schema remains 3.4.0.

0.76.0-alpha2026-08-19

Add the durable Writings-owned publication_source_work_map bridge from Howard Works / REH Publications source Work identities to permanent REH Writings Works.
Seed 896 reviewed mappings from existing legacy migration evidence, unique reviewed title identity, explicit synopsis/descriptor parent-title evidence, structured form-label normalization and a small reviewed spelling/typographic exception set. Source IDs are never adopted as Writings IDs.
Add the Publication work links admin audit with source-Work totals, publication-impact counts, unresolved/ambiguous review rows, manual Work-ID reconciliation and CSV export.
The initial reviewed bridge resolves 830 of the 834 story-source identities that actually appear in Publications. Four source-story records remain deliberately unresolved because no safe permanent Writings identity has been established; verse remains intentionally partial because many poems are outside the Writings catalogue.
Register the authoritative reh_publications_howard_writing_resolution companion resolver so REH Publications can render Howard writing only when Writings has a safe permanent identity.
Require REH Publications Integration API 1.13 for source-Work inventory/batch lookup. Writings continues to avoid Publications private tables.
Advance schema to 3.4.0. Backup/handoff automatically includes the new mapping table.

0.75.27-alphaFinal reviewed title-family batch before Publications handover

Batches the remaining high-confidence Work/title-state cleanup into one guarded reconciliation release so REH Writings can reach a clean stopping point before work returns to REH Publications.
Consolidates Waterfront Law / The TNT Punch / The Waterfront Wallop under Waterfront Law as Howard's original Work title. The TNT Punch survives as the January 1931 publication state; The Waterfront Wallop survives as the Fall 1941 publication state, with Mark Adam scoped to that later state. The previously imported $75 money values are withdrawn and replaced conservatively by one reviewed $70 income/earnings fact, matching Howard's letter to Tevis Clyde Smith without inventing a gross/net distinction the evidence does not establish.
Normalizes the existing Manila Manslaughter / The Pit of the Serpent Work internally so The Pit of the Serpent is canonical and primary. Manila Manslaughter remains the Fall 1937 republication title, with its existing Mark Adam publication byline retained at exact Text/publication scope.
Retires the empty legacy Weary Pilgrims on the Road title wrapper into the substantive Breckinridge Elkins Work currently headed Pilgrims to the Pecos, then normalizes that surviving Work to Howard's original title Weary Pilgrims on the Road. Pilgrims to the Pecos remains the publication title; the three First Cuts draft Texts stay intact, and the documented $60 sale to Action Stories on October 8, 1935 remains the structured sale fact. No speculative $54 receipt is created.
Normalizes the existing Sucker! / Winner Take All Work internally so Winner Take All is canonical and primary. Sucker! remains the Winter 1939–1940 republication state, with the existing Mark Adam byline retained on that later publication state.
Resolves the duplicate surviving Killer's Debt fragment representation without claiming that the fragment is certainly the lost complete *A Killer's Debt*. The exact untitled fragment beginning ... fabulous amount stated in the exaggerated legend, becomes the canonical surviving fragment state; the old *The Killer's Debt* wrapper retires as duplicate editorial provenance and remains searchable as an editorial title. Notes retain the possible—but unproven—relationship to the lost story submitted to *Adventure* on June 7, 1931 and Street & Smith on June 20, 1931.
Adds guarded same-Work title/state normalization to the reconciliation engine, including primary-Text reassignment, exact Text metadata updates, safe retirement of duplicate editorial wrapper Texts, title preservation, content correction, byline rescoping, conservative total-income correction, merge history and undo.
The known title-identity research queue for these cases is now empty. Uncertain literary relationships remain recorded as evidence/notes rather than being forced into Work merges.
Schema remains 3.3.0. Installation itself is non-mutating; the batch still requires explicit CONSOLIDATE REVIEWED WORK STRUCTURE confirmation and retains live-scope guards plus undo snapshots.

0.75.26-alphaRing-Tailed Tornado lineage reconciliation

Promotes the Ring-Tailed Tornado / A Ringtailed Tornado / Texas John Alden / untitled synopsis family from the research-only queue into guarded Work Identity & Title Reconciliation.
Keeps one conceptual Howard Work and normalizes its canonical heading to Ring-Tailed Tornado, the documented Howard title. The previous A Ring-tailed Tornado form remains searchable as a publication-title form.
Preserves A Ringtailed Tornado Text #47 as a distinct Kline agency rewrite state under the surviving Work rather than pretending that the agency-rewritten Breckinridge Elkins text is an ordinary Robert E. Howard Text. Its source publication/editorial scope is promoted to exact Text scope.
Preserves Texas John Alden Text #498 separately as a posthumous published state of the Kline-agency rewrite because exact textual equality with Text #47 has not been verified. The Patrick Ervin credit remains a publication byline tied to *Masked Rider Western* (May 1944), not a Howard-chosen pseudonym.
The old $24.75 Texas John Alden income value is retained only as an undifferentiated legacy fact at exact Text #498 scope. The reconciliation deliberately does not reinterpret it as the Work’s gross sale amount or Howard’s lifetime/net receipt.
Rehomes Untitled synopsis (Ring-Tailed Tornado) Text #969 intact under the surviving Work and promotes its legacy Work-level route/publication/editorial evidence to the exact synopsis state.
No exact-text merge is asserted between Text #47 and Text #498. The two agency/publication records survive independently until direct textual comparison establishes whether they are identical.
The remaining non-actionable structural queue is The TNT Punch / Waterfront Law plus the deliberately unresolved possible Killer’s Debt / A Killer’s Debt relationship.
Schema remains 3.3.0. Installation itself changes nothing; these reviewed moves require the existing explicit CONSOLIDATE REVIEWED WORK STRUCTURE confirmation and retain guarded undo snapshots.

0.75.25-alphaExact-state title wrapper reconciliation

Resolves The Blue Flame of Death mapping: reviewed HowardWorks and Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter evidence identifies it as Howard’s title for the first draft of The Blue Flame of Vengeance. Legacy Work #332 / Text #523 can now retire into permanent Draft 1, Text #1121; the title survives as an exact Text-scoped version title and Draft 2 #1122 remains untouched.
Resolves both Drums of Tombalku legacy wrappers: Work #616 / Text #904 (Three men squatted beside the . . .) maps to permanent Draft 1 #1837, and Work #676 / Text #964 (Amalric, a son of a nobleman . . .) maps to permanent Synopsis #167.
Publication appearances and retained source-page scope follow the surviving exact Textual Version through the existing guarded supporting-Work reconciliation engine. Redundant title-only legacy Introduction rows are retired rather than creating duplicate active editorial prose.
Removes Blue Flame and Drums of Tombalku from the non-actionable Work-identity research queue. The remaining queue is Ring-tailed Tornado/Texas John Alden, TNT Punch/Waterfront Law and the possible Killer’s Debt relationship.
Fixes the previous changelog header typo: the initial Work Identity & Title Reconciliation release was 0.75.23-alpha, while 0.75.24-alpha added the four reviewed alternate-title wrapper retirements.
Schema remains 3.3.0. Installation performs no reconciliation; the three new exact-state cases require the existing explicit MERGE REVIEWED SUPPORTING WORKS confirmation and retain guarded undo snapshots.

0.75.24-alphaReviewed alternate-title wrapper consolidation

Promotes two previously research-only title families into guarded Work Identity & Title Reconciliation after bibliographic and live-scope review.
Outlaw Trails (Work #228 / Text #367) and The Devil’s Jest (Work #361 / Text #557) are now reviewed empty title wrappers of The Devil’s Joker (Work #362). Their old titles are preserved as searchable alternate titles; the genuine Devil’s Joker textual states #558, #559, #1144 and #1546 remain untouched.
The Trail of the Dinosaur (Work #555 / Text #838) and The Trail of the Mammoth (Work #556 / Text #839) are now reviewed empty title wrappers of The Land of Forgotten Ages (Work #450). Both old titles survive as searchable alternate titles; the substantive fragment and Draft #1207, editorial material and publication history remain under Work #450.
All four new repairs use the existing guarded CONSOLIDATE REVIEWED WORK STRUCTURE workflow, live dependency checks and undo snapshots. Installation itself changes nothing.
The unresolved queue now starts with Blue Flame, Drums of Tombalku, Ring-tailed Tornado/Texas John Alden, TNT Punch/Waterfront Law and the possible Killer’s Debt relationship.

0.75.23-alphaWork identity & title reconciliation

Reframes the existing guarded cross-Work rehome engine as Work Identity & Title Reconciliation, separating actionable evidence-backed repairs from a visible non-actionable research queue.
Adds two reviewed structural cases: legacy Work #614 Untitled draft (The Haunted Mountain) is a pure wrapper and can retire into The Haunted Mountain without inventing a fourth surviving draft; Text #907 Untitled fragment (The Honor of Beffum.) survives as an exact excerpt Text under For the Honor of the School.
Adds exact-scope promotion for rehomed single-state legacy Works. When the old Work existed only to represent one excerpt/state, its Work-level page route, editorial/source rows, publication appearances and applicable facts/bylines can move to that surviving Text ID rather than being blurred back to whole-Work scope.
Pure wrapper editorial prose can now be retired while the wrapper route/title is preserved as searchable historical provenance.
Adds a review-only identity queue for the unresolved Outlaw Trails / Devil’s Jest / Devil’s Joker, Land of Forgotten Ages / Trail of the Dinosaur / Trail of the Mammoth, Blue Flame of Death, Drums of Tombalku, Ring-tailed Tornado / Texas John Alden, TNT Punch / Waterfront Law, and Killer’s Debt questions. These rows never block or enter the one-click batch.
The Killer’s Debt case is explicitly non-mutating: the surviving untitled fragment may relate to the lost complete *A Killer’s Debt*, but no merge/rename is offered without stronger evidence.
Schema remains 3.3.0. Installation performs no Work merge/rehome; reviewed changes still require the explicit CONSOLIDATE REVIEWED WORK STRUCTURE confirmation and retain guarded undo snapshots.

0.75.22-alphaCorrective money enrichment

Extends Review & authority → Genres, money & credited names with optional financial_remove proposal values for exact corrective withdrawal of sale_amount / howard_received facts.
Guarded bulk apply removes a money fact only when the proposal names the exact currently exported value and the active fact was created by the enrichment audit. A changed value, conflicting active value, or catalogue-manual fact remains review-only.
Supports an atomic remove-then-add correction in one Work proposal, so a mistaken earlier howard_received promotion can be reclassified as sale_amount without leaving duplicate conflicting structured facts.
Proposal preview and apply reports now show financial withdrawals separately from additions. Older 1.0 proposal packages remain compatible because financial_remove is optional.
Schema remains 3.3.0. Installation performs no catalogue mutation; corrective changes still require proposal import plus the explicit APPLY SAFE ENRICHMENT confirmation.

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