Cover is a photo of Robert E. Howard from the papers of August Derleth. It also appeared in the 1944 Arkham House collection Marginalia by H. P. Lovecraft.
The back cover drawing is from the back of a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa July 1928 (“Salaam: A Warning to Orthodoxy…”). It also appears in The Howard Collector #19.
“Old Man Jacobson” is a fragment, never before published.
First appearance:
Untitled ” ‘You,’ said Shifty Griddle . . .”
Aphorism” “The girl that is a beauty”
“A Thunder of Trumpets” (Draft A)
“Library”
First appearance:
“The Man on the Ground” (draft)
Untitled Synopsis: “The Black Hound of Death”
To an unknown recipient, unmailed, “Salaam: I’m writing mainly to find out about . . .”
Notes: “The House of Arabu”
Howard’s items are facsimile copies of typescripts, except for the First appearance:
Untitled draft (“The Haunted Mountain”)
Undated letter (unfinished, unsent)
“Baal” (Complete version)postcard.
“The Lion of Tiberias” fragment contains the initial pages of Howard’s first submission to Oriental Stories, which he later rewrote at the behest of Farnsworth Wright in the letter on p. 4.
Howard’s items are facsimile copies of typescripts, except for the First appearance:
Untitled draft (“The Haunted Mountain”)
Undated letter (unfinished, unsent)
“Baal” (Complete version)postcard.
“The Lion of Tiberias” fragment contains the initial pages of Howard’s first submission to Oriental Stories, which he later rewrote at the behest of Farnsworth Wright in the letter on p. 4.
Howard’s items are facsimile copies of typescripts, except for the postcard.
“The Lion of Tiberias” fragment contains the initial pages of Howard’s first submission to Oriental Stories, which he later rewrote at the behest of Farnsworth Wright in the letter on p. 4.
“Brachan the Kelt” and “Typing Practice” are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
“The Stralsund” is a facsimile of a handwritten sheet, including doodles.
“The Value of Athletics to the School” is a facsimile of a handwritten Howard ninth grade essay, with teacher comments.
“Brachan the Kelt” and “Typing Practice” are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
“The Stralsund” is a facsimile of a handwritten sheet, including doodles.
“The Value of Athletics to the School” is a facsimile of a handwritten Howard ninth grade essay, with teacher comments.
“The Door to the Garden” and “A Rattlesnake Sings in the Grass” are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
The illustrations in “Howard the Pirate” are photographs of Howard and his neighbor Leroy Butler sword fighting while Leroy’s sister Faustine referees (a third photo is on the front cover).
The letter on p. 3 is a facsimile of a typescript; the letters on pp. 4, 10 and 16 are facsimiles of hand-written documents followed by transcripts of those documents.
The obituary on the back cover is a facsimile from The Ranger Daily Times, Ranger, TX.
