The Zebra paperback edition. Black Vulmea’s vengeance is a collection of three adventure short stories about pirates by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in 1976 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 2,750 copies. The title story first appeared in the magazine Golden Fleece in 1938. This book is based on the Grant 1976 hardcover edition.
The Zebra collection with three El Borak tales. “The Lost Valley of Iskander” is an El Borak short story by Robert E. Howard. It was not published within Howard’s lifetime, the first publication was in the FAX Collector’s Editions hardback The Lost Valley of Iskander in 1974.[1] Its original title was “Swords of the Hills”.
In this story, El Borak discovers a legendary valley in which live Greek descendants of Alexander the Great invading army. Meanwhile, the vital package he carries must be carried to British India before the Hungarian, Hunyadi, can stop him or thousands will die.
A Gent from Bear Creek was first published by Herberg Jenkins in England, 1937 after Howard’s death. This version is published by Zebra and is basically the same as the Donald M. Grant also from 1975 and unfortunately has a few errors and editorial changes, including removal of all italics.
The title of both an original short story, as well as a novel was 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.
The Zebra collection contains many well-known stories by Howard. Pigeons from Hell, The Gods of Bal-Sagoth, and many more.
The Zebra edition. The Sowers of the Thunder is a historical fiction short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, originally published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932. It takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the General’s friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh O’Donnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.
‘Worms of the Earth’ is a short story by American fantasy fiction writer Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the magazine Weird Tales in November 1932, then again in this collection of Howard’s short stories. The story features one of Howard’s recurring protagonists, Bran Mak Morn, a legendary king of the Picts.
Also contains the Dark Man with Turlogh O’Brien and several other Bran Mak Morn stories.
The Iron Man & Other Tales of the Ring is a collection of short stories about boxing by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in 1976 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,600 copies.
Contains boxing stories by Howard. One of these tales was first published in The Magic Carpet Magazine in January 1934, two others were printed posthumously in ‘The Howard Collector’. Brief introduction by Darrell C. Richardson.
The Vultures of Waheton was originally published with two different endings in the December 1936 issue of Smashing Novels Magazine under the title “The Vultures of Whapeton”. This is a collection of four of Howard’s serious (as opposed to the Breckenridge Elkins humorous tall-tales series that were modeled after Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan) Western stories. The title story appeared in a 1936 issue of Smashing Novels Magazine. None of the others were printed during his lifetime.
Sleep No More is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories edited by August Derleth and illustrated by Lee Brown Coye, the first of three similar books in the 1940s. It was first published by Rinehart & Company in 1944. Featuring short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and other noted authors of the macabre genre, many of the stories made their initial appearance in Weird Tales magazine. The anthology is considered to be a classic of the genre, and is the initial foray by Coye into the field of horror illustration.
