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The Female of the Species

Unfinished story. 2800 words written. Might be the same as ‘The Feminine of the Species’ which Howard submitted to Argosy-Allstory in 1922-1923. Howard listed this story in a list he included in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa February 1929.

Howard Biography

Short biography – written by Rusty Burke.
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) ranks among the greatest writers of action and adventure stories. The creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, ‘El Borak,’ Sailor Steve Costigan and many other memorable characters, Howard (known as REH to his millions of fans), in a career that spanned barely 12 years, wrote well over a hundred stories for the pulp magazines of his day.

Dark Agnes: A critical overview of Robert E. Howard’s Sword Woman

Written by Jessica Amanda Salmonson  Robert E. Howard was a great storyteller. Perhaps not a skilled writer in technical terms, but nonetheless, his fiction is powerful in an awkward, honest, direct manner — not unlike many of his heros. Certainly his style is appealing, as his popularity has continued in spite of his imitators’ every  [ read more . . . ]

The Last of the Trunk Och Brev i Urval

This publication was created to safeguard the copyright of Robert E. Howard’s previously unpublished works. A limited run of 12 copies was produced, with two exclusive editions bound in leather and the remainder as comb-bound paperbacks. The content includes non-Howard material in Swedish, except for Patrice Louinet’s introduction and the “Notes” section, which offers insights into the stories.

The Last of the Trunk

Finally, in this volume, the last of the trunk is being revealed. Virtually all the remaining prose, complete or not, is included. More than 100 works appear in this volume. While this collection may not feature his most memorable or impressive work (those works are already in print), it does fill in lots of blank spaces for the scholars and collectors, and perhaps yields a little more understanding of this great Texas writer.

This massive volume, well over 650 pages and over 180,000 words, is printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 300 copies, each individually numbered. Cover artwork is by Tom Foster, cover design by Dennis McHaney.