For the first time ever, a collection featuring all of Howard’s drafts and fragments. The second volume in a four-part series from the REH Foundation Press collects all the drafts for eight of Howard’s Breckinridge Elkins stories. All from Howard’s original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Howard’s raw text, including typos and weird spellings, is preserved. Footnotes describe where Howard inserted text either by typing in between lines or by hand.

These books will be print-on-demand, and the first release is a beautiful boxed set featuring four hardcover books with matching covers, gold-foiled dust jackets, and sprayed edges. Later, there will be more regular, normally priced hard- and softcover books. 

For the second volume, Howard scholar and biographer Mark Finn wrote an essay.

Contents

• ii • Acknowledgments
• ix • Editor’s Note
• ix • A Note on Language, Style, and Fidelity
• xi • True Lies and Texas Accents • by Mark Finn

A Elkins Never Surrenders

• 5 • Editorial Notes
• 5 • A Elkins Never Surrenders – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 23 • A Elkins Never Surrenders – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 43 • A Elkins Never Surrenders – draft 3 • (untitled, complete)

War on Bear Creek

• 67 • Editorial Notes
• 67 • War on Bear Creek – draft 1 • (untitled, complete)
• 87 • War on Bear Creek – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)

The Feud Buster

• 111 • Editorial Notes
• 111 • The Feud Buster – draft 1 • (untitled, complete)
• 121 • The Feud Buster – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)
• 137 • The Feud Buster – draft 3 • (untitled, complete)

The Peaceful Pilgrim

• 159 • Editorial Notes
• 159 • The Peaceful Pilgrim – draft 1 • (untitled, complete)
• 177 • The Peaceful Pilgrim – draft 2-cc • (untitled, complete — carbon copy)
• 195 • The Peaceful Pilgrim – draft 2 • (untitled, incomplete)

Cupid from Bear Creek

• 201 • Editorial Notes
• 201 • Cupid from Bear Creek • (untitled synopsis)
• 203 • Cupid from Bear Creek – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 211 • Cupid from Bear Creek – draft 2 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 225 • Cupid from Bear Creek – draft 3 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 235 • Cupid from Bear Creek – draft 4 • (untitled, complete)

The Riot at Cougar Paw

• 255 • Editorial Notes
• 255 • The Riot at Cougar Paw • (untitled synopsis)
• 257 • The Riot at Cougar Paw – draft 1 • (untitled, complete, short)
• 265 • The Riot at Cougar Paw – draft 2 • (untitled, complete)

The Apache Mountain War

• 287 • Editorial Notes
• 287 • The Apache Mountain War • (untitled synopsis)
• 289 • The Apache Mountain War – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 297 • The Apache Mountain War – draft 2 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 301 • The Apache Mountain War – draft 3 • (untitled, complete)
• 319 • The Apache Mountain War – draft 4 • (untitled, complete)

Pilgrims to the Pecos

• 343 • Editorial Notes
• 343 • Pilgrims to the Pecos – draft 1 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 359 • Pilgrims to the Pecos – draft 2 • (untitled, incomplete)
• 377 • Pilgrims to the Pecos – draft 3 • (untitled, complete)