The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard volume 1, Ultimate Edition, is now available on Amazon in both hardcover and paperback. For people outside the US, this is especially good news since the total cost is reduced. The main reason for the delay on both the paperback and Collected Letters volume 2 and 3 have […]
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Jul
Jul
OUT OF THE DEEP is a sequel of sorts to SEA CURSE (Weird Tales, May 1928). It was submitted to Weird Tales in 1928 but got rejected.
UNTITLED STORY (Thure Khan gazed out across the shifting vastness . . .) 200 words, unfinished.
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Aug
The first page of a letter that Otis Adelbert Kline sent to Magic Carpet. It shows how they marked it before sending it to the typesetter. Patrick Ervin changed the character from Costigan to Dorgan and Howard’s name to Patrick Ervin. The story itself was going to appear in the next issue, but then Magic Carpet when out of business.
In this parody of a murder mystery, Vilo Pants and his companions engage in a chaotic investigation to solve the mystery of a corpse that falls out of a closet, only to discover the true cause of the man’s condition in a comically absurd conclusion. From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa May 1932.
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Alternative title: Untitled (“I carved a woman out of marble when”). Published in Poet’s Scroll January 1929. 14 lines.
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Feb
Conan simply grew up in my mind a few years ago when I was stopping in a little border town on the lower Rio Grande. I did not create him by any conscious process. He simply stalked full grown out of oblivion and set me at work recording the saga of his adventures.
UNTITLED STORY (The way it came about that Steve Allison, Timoleon . . .) Originally untitled. Steve Allison and Timoleon (Timmy) Lycurgus Cassanova de Quin are in the mountains of Thibet just for the fun of it. A fragment. 1100 words, unfinished. Featuring The Sonora Kid.
The story sets up an intriguing adventure in a remote and exotic location, blending elements of exploration, humor, and potential conflict. However, being unfinished, the narrative leaves the readers in suspense about the characters’ encounters and discoveries in Thibet.
UNTITLED STORY (determined. So I set out up the hill-trail as if on a hunt and . . .). 700 words, incomplete.
What the Nation Owes to the South is an essay written for the Brownwood Bulletin and published on May 26th, 1923.