The reprint of the Holy Gent or the Holy Grail of Howard collecting, published by Dennis McHaney. ‘A Gent from Bear Creek‘ was first published by Herbert Jenkins in England, 1937 after Howards death. The title of both an original short story, as well as a novel 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 story line, and new material was added as additional chapters.

Chapters

  • “Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts” (new)
  • “Mountain Man”
  • “Meet Cap’n Kidd” (new)
  • “Guns of the Mountains”
  • “A Gent from Bear Creek”
  • “The Feud Buster”
  • “The Road to Bear Creek”
  • “The Scalp Hunter”
  • “Cupid from Bear Creek”
  • “The Haunted Mountain”
  • “Educate or Bust” (new)
  • “War on Bear Creek”
  • “When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear” (new).

More information

Check out information about the original book from 1937 here.

Updated 1. April 2022:
The paper has been upgraded from 60 # cream colored stock to 80# glossy white stock. The text is taken from the 1937 Herbert Jenkins first edition and the dust jacket is a facsimile of that original first edition. It is linen dark blue with white lettering on the cover and an actual dustjacket

Buy it!
Publisher:Dennis McHaney
Year :2009 (hardcover) 2010 (trade paperback)
Book No. :None
Edition :1st
Format :Hardcover with dust jacket
Trade Paperback (6 x 9, perfect bound)
Pages :280
Cover art :Unknown
Illustrations :None
Howard Works

A Gent from Bear Creek (2009)

The reprint of the Holy Gent or the Holy Grail of Howard collecting, published by Dennis McHaney. ‘A Gent from Bear Creek’ was first published by Herbert Jenkins in England, 1937 after Howards death. The title of both an original short story, as well as a novel 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 story line, and new material was added as additional chapters.

Tags: Breckinridge Elkins / Herbert Jenkins / Robert E. Howard