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.
Hand-made chapbook with the first appearance of five of Robert E. Howards poems.
Hand-made chapbook with the first apperance of the poem ‘A Song of the Naked Lands’.
Hand-made chapbook with the first apperance of the poem ‘A Song of the Naked Lands’.
Hand-made chapbook with the poem ‘The Road to Rome’.
Hand-made chapbook with the first apperance of the poem ‘Black Dawn’.
Opening line: “A black moon nailed against a sullen dawn / The gods have said: “Life is a mystic shrine.” / Mohammed, Buddha, Moses, Satan, Thor! / They sell brown men for gold in Zanzibar / Break down the world and mold it once again!”.
