The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard Volume Three: 1933-1936 ultimate
Publication date: November 2022
Introduction
The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard reveals a side of Howard’s personality that readers of his fiction might not suspect existed. Full of humor, philosophical musings, travelogue, historical sketches, and opinions on contemporary politics and events – local, national, and international – Howard’s letters provide important insight into the life and times of one of the most influential pulp-era writers of the twentieth century.
This three-volume, limited-edition series collects all the known letters written by REH. The collection includes dozens of previously unpublished letters and hundreds of poems that made their initial appearance in these volumes. This three-volume set collects more than 350 letters, from the early ones to his Texas friends, most notably Tevis Clyde Smith, and continuing through correspondence with fellow writers Clark Ashton Smith, E. Hoffmann Price, and others. Also included are Howard’s letters to H. P. Lovecraft, which constitute one of the most intriguing correspondence cycles in the history of fantasy fiction.
This is the "Ultimate Edition" which just means that it's printed on demand. Each volume is printed in hardback with a dust jacket. The cover design and artwork are by Mark Wheatley. The first edition can be seen here.
This third volume of a three-volume set collects the rest of all of Howard’s known correspondence.
Notes
1934
1935
1936
Undated Material
Documents Enclosed with TCS Letters
Undated Letters to Unknown Recipients
Appendices
- 457 Appendix One: The Beast From the Abyss
- 465 Appendix Two: Newspaper Articles
- 471 Appendix Three: Newly Found Letters
- 475 Appendix Four: Photographs
- 485 Howard’s Address Lists
- 489 Index
- 491 Editors’ Notes
- 493 General Index
- 541 List of Howard’s Correspondents
- 543 List of Howard’s Poetry and Plays
- 545 List of Drawings and Photographs
Notes
- Edited by Rob Roehm & John Bullard
- Annotations by Rusty Burke
- Print on demand "Ultimate Edition"
The other volumes
The first editions
Edition and production details
- Language
- English
- Format details
- Hardcover; Trade paperback
- Edition
- 2nd edition, version 1
- Format
- hardcover
- Publisher / imprint
- REH Foundation Press
- Cover art
- Mark Wheatley
- Illustrations
- None
- Edition
- 2nd edition, version 1
- Format
- paperback
- Publisher / imprint
- REH Foundation Press
- Cover art
- Mark Wheatley
- Illustrations
- None
31 linked Howard works
- A Crown for a Kingverse
- A Dungeon Opensverse
- A Song Out of Midianverse
- A Warning (partial verse, "You have built a world of paper and wood")verse
- Altars and Jesters (1)verse
- Babelverse
- Cimmeriaverse
- Crusadeverse
- Dreamingverse
- Drummings on an Empty Skullverse
- I Praise My Nativityverse
- Laughter in the Gulfsverse
- Moon Shameverse
- One Who Comes At Eventideverse
- Out of the Deepverse
- Renunciationverse
- Skulls over Judahverse
- Surrender (2, "Open the window and let me go")verse
- The Beast from the Abyssstory
- The Dance with Deathverse
- The Diablos Trailstory
- The Iron Harp (1, a cycle of five poems)verse
- The Lost San Saba Mineverse
- The Winds of the Seaverse
- To a Certain Cultured Womanverse
- To a Woman (2, "Though fathoms deep . . .")verse
- Untitled ("Match a toad with a far-winged hawk")verse
- Untitled ("There were three lads who went their destined ways")verse
- Untitled ("They were there, in the distance dreaming")verse
- Untitled (The Seeker thrust …)story
- With a Set of Rattlesnake Rattlesstory
18 contents entries
- Introduction by Rusty Burke xi · introduction
- First Edition Notes on the Text by Rob Roehm xvii
- Second Edition Notes from the Editor by John Bullard xiv
- List of First Edition Letter Numbers with Their New Second Edition Numbers xxi · letter
- 457 Appendix One: The Beast From the Abyss
- 465 Appendix Two: Newspaper Articles
- 471 Appendix Three: Newly Found Letters
- 475 Appendix Four: Photographs
- 485 Howard’s Address Lists
- 489 Index reference
- 491 Editors’ Notes
- 493 General Index reference
- 541 List of Howard’s Correspondents
- 543 List of Howard’s Poetry and Plays
- 545 List of Drawings and Photographs
- Edited by Rob Roehm & John Bullard
- Annotations by Rusty Burke
- Print on demand "Ultimate Edition"
Contributors
- Mark Wheatley
- Cover artist
Additional related terms
Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.