Hand-made chapbook with the poem ‘Altars and Jesters’. Opening line: “God is God and Mahommed his prophet…”.
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13 previously unpublished poems collected for the first time, with the exception of Empire, of which supposedly a shorter version appeared in Weird Tales.
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Contains an interview with Novalyne Price Ellis by Rusty Burke.
“Day of the Stranger” is a play.
“Speech about Robert E. Howard” was presented at the 1988 World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans.
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Selected letters from Howard to Tevis Clyde Smith, August Derleth, Lovecraft and others. Included in the letters are poems and stories.
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Selected letters from Howard to Tevis Clyde Smith, Harold Preece, Lovecraft and others. Included in the letters are poems and stories.
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The All-Around Magazine was a fanzine published by Smith; the covers and page 3 are shown.
“So Far the Poet…” is a series of handwritten notes Smith made in preparing to write a biography of Howard for Jonathan Bacon.
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A collection of poems. Introduction by Tevis Clyde Smith.
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First published as “Secret of Lost Valley” in Startling Mystery Stories, Spring 1967. A weird western.
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A sampling of early poetry drafts.
All of the poems come from Howard’s original typescripts and carbons with the following exceptions:
“Black Mass”, first published version, is from STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES, Fall 1967.
“The Tower of Zukala”, first published version, is from Glenn Lord’s provided retype, as used in A RHYME OF SALEM TOWN AND OTHER POEMS, REH Foundation, 2007.
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Contains numerous short quotes from REH letters about his travels around Texas. If taken literally, Cimmeria is plainly showing as overlapping some of Norway on his original map, very far from Texas, but of course the climate and landscape can be similar with shifting temperatures and hills and valleys.