“The Brazen Peacock” is a tale of treachery and ancient relics, set in the shifting sands of the Middle East. The story unfolds as John Mulcahy is thrust into a perilous adventure by the sudden reappearance of Erich Girtmann, a man believed dead, who drags him into a world of dark cults and devil-worship.
Part two of an article written by Rick Lai about the Legend of El Borak.
1400 words, incomplete.
UNTITLED SYNOPSIS of “Black Canaan” which is a short story originally published in the June 1936 issue of Weird Tales.
VOYAGES WITH VILLAINS is from a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa July 1930. Howard. It’s a comedy where he uses himself, Smith and Vinson as “The Rogues of America”.
Robert E. Howard wrote poetry. He wrote it first in life, last in life, and throughout life. Howard completed around 300 stories for commercial sale and worked on 300 more. But he wrote over 700 poems, virtually none of them meant for commercial markets. His first publication outside of school was his poem “The Sea”, published in a local paper. His famous “All fled, all done…” couplet, borrowed from Viola Garvin, was allegedly the last words he typed. And in between, poetry gushed from him.
This second volume of a three-volume set collects the rest of all of Howard’s known poetry.
This massive volume, over 800 pages was printed in 2009. The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard from the REH Foundation. This volume collects all of Howard’s known verse (more than 700 poems), excluding only certain draft and/or variant versions of his poems which are not significantly different from published versions.
It also includes the prose poems published in Etchings in Ivory, title and first line indexes, and “Barbarian Bard: The Poetry of Robert E. Howard”.
Contains several untitled typescripts. The untitled synopses and the note about Hernando de Guzman are copies of Howard typescripts. “The Silver Heel” synopsis is missing the first two pages.
“A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman” is a copy of Howard’s handwritten school theme paper. The untitled poem on page 15 is incomplete. The fragment on the back cover is a color copy of Howard’s typed draft, p. 15, that ends in a synopsis of the remainder of the story.
Tales of Weird Menace collects Howard’s Weird Menace and Yellow Peril yarns, many of which have never seen book publication in the U.S. It includes a hefty “Miscellanea” section featuring hard-to-find fragments and synopses. This volume is 473 pages, plus introductory material.
