Contains a collection of the best material from the eighteen issues of the Howard Collector by Glenn Lord.

Contents

• xiii • Preface (The Howard Collector) • essay by Glenn Lord
• 1 • Two Against Tyre • (1970) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 20 • Sea Curse • [Faring Town] • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 29 • The Curse of the Golden Skull • [Kull of Valusia] • (1967) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 34 • Death’s Black Riders • [Solomon Kane] • (1968) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 36 • Untitled Fragment (“Beneath the glare of the sun…”) • (1967) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 39 • Spanish Gold on Devil Horse • (1972) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 92 • The Heathen • (1970) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 97 • The Thessalians • (1927) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 102 • Ye College Days • (1927) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 107 • Cupid Vs. Pollux • (1927) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 112 • Musings of a Moron • (1968) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 115 • Sunday in a Small Town • (1969) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 119 • West Is West • non-genre • (1922) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 122 • Knife, Bullet and Noose • [The Sonora Kid] • (1965) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 137 • Sentiment • (1967) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 138 • Midnight • (1961) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 139 • Kelly the Conjure-Man • (1964) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 144 • With a Set of Rattlesnake Rattles • (1937) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 146 • The Beast from the Abyss • (1971) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 157 • Hope Empty of Meaning • (1971) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 158 • Life (“They bruised my soul with a proverb…”) • (1973) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 160 • Solomon Kane’s Homecoming (Variant) • [Solomon Kane] • (1971) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 164 • Visions • (1972) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 165 • Harvest • (1972) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 166 • On with the Play • (1972) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 167 • Roads • (1972) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 168 • The Bar by the Side of the Road • (1972) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 170 • Marching Song of Connacht • (1972) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 171 • The Legacy of Tubal-Cain • (1973) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 172 •  Letter: Robert E. Howard to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked March 15, 1933 • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • (1969) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked March 15, 1933 (“Dear Mr. Smith: / I hardly know how to thank you…”) 1976)
• 173 •  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, dated July 1933 (“Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I am sending on to you…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter: Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, July 1933 (“Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I am sending on to you…”) 1971)
• 175 •  Letter: Robert E. Howard to August Derleth, dated July 1933 • [Letters to August Derleth] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to August Derleth, July 1933 (“Dear August: / Thanks immensely for the opportunity of reading…”) 1976)
• 177 •  Letter: Robet E. Howard to R. H. Barlow, dated June 1, 1934 (“Dear Mr. Barlow: / Concerning the illustrations you mentioned…”) • [Letters to R. H. Barlow] • (1973) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 178 •  Letter: Robert E. Howard to R. H. Barlow, dated June 14, 1934 (“Dear Mr. Barlow: / If I ever decide to dispose of…”) • [Letters to R. H. Barlow] • (1973) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 179 •  Letter: Robert E. Howard to Emil Petaja, dated December 17,1934 • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Card to Emil Petaja, December 17, 1934 (“Dear Mr. Petaja: / Thank you very much for the splendid…”) 2008)
• 180 •  Letter: Robert E. Howard to Farnsworth Wright, dated May 6, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Wright: / I always hate to write…”) • [Letters to Farnsworth Wright] • (1967) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Farnsworth Wright, May 6, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Wright: / I always hate to write a letter like this…”) 1976)
• 183 •  Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, dated July 23, 1935 • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • (1964) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Clark Ashton Smith, July 23, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Smith: / I’m ashamed of my long delay in answering…”) 1972)
• 184 •  Letter: Robert E. Howard to August Derleth, dated May 9, 1936 • [Letters to August Derleth] • (1964) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to August Derleth, May 9, 1936 (“Dear August: / I am indeed sorry to learn of the deaths…”) 1976)
• 184 • Untitled poem (“You have built a world of paper and wood…”) • (1964) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of A Warning (“You have built a world of paper and wood … “))
• 191 • Robert Ervin Howard [2] • (1944) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price
• 196 • Burkett News • (1935) • essay by Mrs. T. A. Burns
• 199 • Perhaps for Howard • (1973) • poem by W. Fraser Sandercombe
• 200 •  Letter: E. Hoffmann Price to H. P. Lovecraft, dated June 25, 1936 • (1945) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price
• 206 •  Letter: Dr. I. M. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft, June 29, 1936 • (1970) • essay by Dr. I. M. Howard
• 211 • Around the Supper Table • (1937) • essay by James C. White
• 213 •  Letter: Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffmann Price, June 21, 1944 • (1971) • essay by Dr. I. M. Howard
• 219 • The Warrior • (1939) • poem by Emil Petaja
• 220 • R. E. H. • (1936) • poem by R. H. Barlow
• 221 •  Letter: E. Hoffmann Price to Francis T. Laney, July 22, 1944 • (1967) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price
• 225 • I Speak of Shattered Spring • (1966) • poem by Dale H. Exum [as by Dale Harding Exum]
• 226 •  Letter: E. Hoffmann Price to “The Acolyte” • (1945) • essay by E. Hoffmann Price
• 230 • To Robert Ervin Howard • (1966) • poem by Wade Wellman
• 231 •  Letter: Harold Preece to Lenore Preece, January 16, 1965 • (1969) • essay by Harold Preece
• 237 •  Letter: Harold Preece to Glenn Lord, January 11, 1966 • (1966) • essay by Harold Preece
• 245 • Acheron – A Revisionary Theory • (1971) • short story by Robert Yaple
• 251 • Arenjun • (1973) • poem by Ed Lesko, Jr.
• 252 • Howard’s Cannibalizing • (1970) • essay by Fred Blosser
• 258 • Dust • (1972) • poem by Bryce D. Thompson
• 259 • Conan’s Parents • (1972) • essay by Fred Blosser
• 263 • Nameless Cults: A History • (1972) • short story by Charles O. Gray
• 266 • After “Recompense” • (1965) • poem by Wade Wellman

Cover art by Sanjulian

Notes

Edited by Glenn Lord