“The Ghost with the Silk Hat” was originally published in WRITER OF THE DARK by Dark Carneval Press. Nearly three dozen changes were made to the text. The text included in THE MAN FROM CROSS PLAINS was taken from the typescript and a few corrections are noted at the back of the book.
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Part two of a five-part article about Robert E. Howard and the Spicy stories. Rescued from the late Two-Gun Raconteur blog created by Damon C. Sasser.
Unfinished and untitled 350 words story, starting with “(From the black, bandit-haunted mountains of Kang . . .)”, sets a vivid scene of intrigue and imminent danger. From the perilous mountains of Kang to the bustling streets of Canton, the tale unfolds with a sense of foreboding and tension.
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Jul
The Sonora Kid’s Winning Hand. Short fiction by Robert E. Howard featuring The Sonora Kid.
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Jul
“The Sheik” is a short, humorous story written by Robert E. Howard during his high school years. Published in the Brownwood High School newspaper, The Tattler.
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Jul
“The Phoenix on the Sword” is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian was written by Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in December 1932. The tale, in which Howard created the character of Conan, was a rewrite of the unpublished Kull story “By This Axe I Rule!”, with long passages being identical.
Guns of the Mountains.
“A Gent from Bear Creek” is the title of both an original short story, as well as a novel created by combining several previous short stories with some new material; the previously published short stories were altered a little to create chapters with a continuous storyline, and new material was added as additional chapters.
This short story was altered slightly to become Chapter 5 of the novel, A Gent From Bear Creek.
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Apr
Apr
‘Cultured Cauliflowers’ is an unpublished manuscript by Patrick Ervin found after Howard’s death. ‘Cultured Cauliflowers’ was edited and retitled ‘In High Society’. Cross Plains Library has one original draft of this story and a retyped draft by the Otis Adelbert Kline Agency.
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Mar
The Black Stone. This etext was first published in Weird Tales May and June 1935. Taken from Project Gutenberg.
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