This publication was created to safeguard the copyright of Robert E. Howard’s previously unpublished works. A limited run of 12 copies was produced, with two exclusive editions bound in leather and the remainder as comb-bound paperbacks. The content includes non-Howard material in Swedish, except for Patrice Louinet’s introduction and the “Notes” section, which offers insights into the stories.

Two copies have been placed in national libraries in Sweden, reflecting the European origin of the publication.

The goal of this publication is to compile and release all remaining unpublished prose, letters, and the prose and poetry within those letters by Robert E. Howard. This release aims to establish “publication rights” across Europe under the Berne Convention. For many of these letters, it marks their first complete publication.

Most of the stories can also be found in The Last of the Trunk by The Robert E. Howard Foundation. In addition, there are several letters in this volume.

Contents

• 8 • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • essay by Patrice Louinet
• 11 • Blue River Blues • [Sailor Steve Costigan] • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 17 • The Battling Sailor • [Sailor Steve Costigan] • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 20 • The Drawing Card • [Kid Allison] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 24 • The Jinx • [Kid Allison] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 28 • The Wildcat and the Star • [Kid Allison] • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 35 • Fistic Psychology • [Kid Allison] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 37 • Untitled fragment ([… ] “Huh?” I was so dumbfounded…”) • [Kid Allison] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 39 • Fighting Nerves • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 50 • The Atavist • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 55 • A Man of Peace • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 64 • The Weeping Willow • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 67 • The Right Hook • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 72 • A Tough Nut to Crack (Clarny version) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 77 • The Trail of the Snake • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 84 • The Folly of Conceit • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 90 • The Fighting Fury • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 96 • Night Encounter • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 101 • The Ferocious Ape • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 104 • The Ghost behind the Gloves • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 105 • Misto Dempsey • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 109 • The Brand of Satan • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 116 • Incongruity • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 118 • The Slayer • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 120 • The Man Who Went Back • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 123 • Untitled Synopsis (“Hunwulf, an American, and John Brill…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 124 • Untitled fragment (“Thure Khan gazed out across…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 125 • Untitled fragment (“As he approached the two…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 126 • Untitled poem (“There was a thing of the shadow world…”) • (1982) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Shadow Thing)
• 127 • A Room in London (outline) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 128 • The Shadow in the Well • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 132 • Fate Is the Killer • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 134 • The Grove of Lovers • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 137 • The Drifter • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 139 • The Lion Gate • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 141 • Untitled fragment (“Franey was a fool. Cleary…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 142 • The Ivory Camel • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 144 • Wolves—And a Sword? • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 145 • Untitled fragment (“I’m a man of few words…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 150 • Untitled Synopsis (“James Norris…”) • (1976) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 151 • The Dominant Male • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 154 • The Paradox • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 157 • Untitled fragment (“Mike Costigan, writer and self-avowed…”) • [Mike Costigan] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 159 • The Splended Brute • [Mike Costigan] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 161 • Circus Charade • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 162 • The Influence of the Movies • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 163 • Untitled fragment (“William Aloysius McGraw’s father was red-headed…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 164 • A Man and a Brother • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 165 • Man • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 167 • The Pigskin Scholar • short fiction by Robert E. Howard (variant of Pigskin Scholar)
• 170 • The Recalcitrant • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 171 • Untitled fragment (“‘Arrange, Madame, arrange!’…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 172 • Untitled fragment (“‘Yessah,’ said Mrs ____…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 175 • The Question of the East • (2007) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 176 • In His Own Image • (2007) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 179 • The Punch • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 183 • The Female of the Species • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 186 • The Last Man • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 194 • The Treasure of Henry Morgan • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 197 • Untitled fragment (“The lazy quiet of the…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 199 • Through the Ages • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 200 • The White Jade Ring • [The Sonora Kid] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 202 • The Roving Boys on a Sandburg • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 204 • Westward, Ho! • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 207 • The Wild Man • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 210 • What the Deuce? • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 211 • The Land of Forgotten Ages • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 212 • The Funniest Bout • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 213 • The Red Stone • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 214 • A Unique Hat • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 215 • Untitled fragment (“‘A man,’ said my friend Larry…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 216 • Untitled fragment (“…that is, the artistry…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 217 • Untitled fragment (“I met him first in the Paradise saloon…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 218 • Untitled fragment (“I. I Find the ‘heathen book’…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 220 • Untitled fragment (“‘So there I was. Stranded in a …”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 221 • Untitled fragment (“November 10, 1922, A.D. Trail led through …”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 223 • Untitled fragment (“Two men were standing in the bazaar…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 224 • Untitled fragment (“When Yar Ali Khan crept…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 225 • Untitled fragment (“Who am I it matters little…”) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 229 • A Twentieth-Century Rip Van Winkle • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of A Twentieth Century Rip Van Winkle)
• 232 • The Ghosts of Jacksonville • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 233 • A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman • (1984) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 234 • Mr. Dowser Buys a Car • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 236 • A Faithful Servant • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 238 • A South Sea Storm • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 239 • The Ghost of Bald Rock Ranch • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 242 • A Fishing Trip • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 243 • Friends • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 245 • Ten Minutes on a Street Corner • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 246 • The Wings of the Bat • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 250 • Notes (The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval) • essay by uncredited
• 255 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 8, 1923 (“Hello Clyde, / May the blessings of Allah rest upon you…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (1999) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 255 • Untitled poem (“When Napoleon down in Africa…”) • (1999) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 255 •  Love Affair in the Old Stone Age • (2007) • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 256 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22, 1923 (“Clyde sahib, greeting: / I found your first letter…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 22, 1923 “Clyde sahib, greeting: / I found your first letter…”))
• 256 • Neolithic Love Song • (1987) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 256 •  The Flapper Long Live the Queen • (1999) • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 257 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1923 (“To Clyde bahadur-sahib, greeting: / I got your letter…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1923 (“To Clyde bahadur-sahib, greeting: / I got your letter…”))
• 257 • Untitled poem (“Now bright, now red, the sabers sped…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 257 • Untitled poem (“The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 258 • The Dook of Stork • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 259 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 (“Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur: / The picnic has come and went…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923 (“Clyde sahib, bohut salaam, bahadur; / The picnic has come…”))
• 260 • Untitled poem (“Bill Boozy was a pirate bold…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 261 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 (“Clyde Sahib; / You say I’ll be in Kabul…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 4, 1923 (“Clyde sahib; / You say I’ll be in…”))
• 262 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923 (“Salaam Clyde; / Maybe you think I’ve moved…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923 (“Salaam, Clyde; / Maybe you think I’ve moved…”))
• 262 • Untitled poem (“A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs…:) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 262 • Untitled poem (“A hundred years the great war raged…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 263 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, November 4, 1923 (“Bohut salaam, Clyde bahadur; / It’s been quite a while…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, November 4, 1923 (“Bohut salaam, Clyde bahadur; / It’s been quite a while…”))
• 265 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 21, 1924 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I should have written you sooner…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, April 21, 1924 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I should have written…”))
• 266 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 19, 1924 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I suppose you think I’m rather slow…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 19, 1924 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I suppose you think I’m rather slow…”))
• 266 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, September 7, 1924 (“Salaam, Clyde, / You ought to be here. / Palm-trees are waving…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (1999) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 266 • Untitled poem (“Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze…”) • (1999) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 266 •  Untitled poem (“Palm-trees are waving in the gulf-breeze…”) • (2007) • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 267 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 7, 1925 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I was in Brownwood the other day…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 7, 1925 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib; / I was in Brownwood the…”))
• 267 •  Mexican Soldiers, the Pride of the Nation • (1999) • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 267 •  Spig Acting Smart • (1999) • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 268 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 (“Salaam, Sahib; / I’m sending you a lot of junk…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 30, 1925 (“Salaam, sahib; / I’m sending you a lot of junk…”))
• 269 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, February 25, 1925 (“Salaam, Sahib; / Chapter XIX / Writers of the Bunkorian Age…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, February 25, 1925 (“Salaam,sahib; / Chapter XIX / Writers of the Bunkorian Age…”))
• 269 • Untitled poem (“Hills of the North! Lavender hills…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 269 • Untitled poem (“Dark are your eyes…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 269 • Untitled poem (“How your right thudded…”) • (1996) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Slugger’s Vow)
• 269 • Untitled poem (“I am the Spirit of War!…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 269 • Untitled poem (“I lay in Yen’s opium joint…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 270 • The Bombing of Gon Fanfew • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 271 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, March 17, 1925 (“The top o’ the marnin’, O’Clydo; / Faith and bejabbers!…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, March 17, 1925 (“The top o’ the marnin’ O’Clydo; / Faith and bejabbers!…”))
• 271 • The Sappious Few Menchew • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 272 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 6, 1925 (“Salaam, sahib; / What ho! I have never read…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (2007) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 272 • The Post of the Sappy Skipper • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 273 • The Bore of the Cowed • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 274 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925 (“Salaam; / Hot zowie, old topper…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 24, 1925 (“Salaam; / Hot zowie, old topper…”))
• 274 • Untitled poem (“When you were a set-up and I was a ham…”) • (1990) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of When You Were a Set-up and I Was a Ham)
• 275 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1925 (“Salaam, Sahib; / I believe you owe me a letter…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, July 7, 1925 (“Salaam, Sahib; / I believe you owe me a letter…”))
• 275 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 1925 (“Salaam, Clyde; / Old boy, I got your letter…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (2007) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 276 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1925 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib, / I haven’t got any answer…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1925 (“Salaam, Clyde sahib, / I haven’t got any answer…”))
• 276 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 (“Salaam; / I’m glad you passed the exams…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1925 (“Salaam; / I’m glad you passed the exams…”))
• 277 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925 (“Salaam, sahib; / Say, bo, you’re developing into a real poet…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, October 9, 1925 (“Salaam, sahib; / Say, bo, you’re developing into a real poet…”))
• 277 • Untitled poem (“I tell you this, my friend…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 278 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 (“Salaam, bahadur, bohut salaam; / By Baal I am joyed…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 (“Salaam, bahadur, bohut salaam; / By Baal I am joyed…”))
• 278 • Untitled poem (“All the crowd meek and proud…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 279 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 (“Salaam; / This is a habit of mine, always was…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926 (“Salaam; / This is a habit of mine…”))
• 280 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, April 14, 1926 (“Salaam; / Being in an (un)poetical mood…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (2007) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 281 • Destiny? (“What is there real, my girl… “) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 281 • The Dancer • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 281 • Laughter • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 282 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, May 7, 1926 (“Salaam; / I’m sending you a flock of poetry…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, May 7, 1926 (“Salaam; / I’m sending you a flock of poetry…”))
• 282 • Untitled poem (“We are the duckers of crosses…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 282 • Untitled poem (“The shades of night were falling faster…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 283 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 (“Salaam; / I’m trying to write again…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, June 23, 1926 (“Salaam; / I’m trying to write again…”))
• 283 • Untitled poem (“Give ye of my best though the dole be meager…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 283 • Untitled poem (“Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 283 • Eternity • (1991) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 284 • Serpent • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 284 • Shadows (“I am that which was, was never…”) • (2006) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Adventure (“I am the spur that rides men’s souls…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Dreamer • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Nun • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Libertine • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Prude • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Destiny (“I am a white trail…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Adventurer • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Poet • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 285 • Dancer • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Cowboy • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Girl • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Sailor • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Toper • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Deeps • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Thor • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 286 • Mystic • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 287 • Monarchs • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 287 • The Mountains of California • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 287 • Orientia • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 287 • Lust • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 288 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1926 (“Salaam, sahib; / In the first place, pardon…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 6, 1926 (“Salaam, sahib; / In the first place, pardon…”))
• 288 • The Alamo • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 288 • San Jacinto (“Flowers bloom on San Jacinto…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 288 • Romance (“Shouting I come, flouting I come…”) • (2006) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 289 • Arcadian Days • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 291 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, August 21, 1926 (“Bohut salaam, sahib; / I think you owe me one, two, three…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, August 21, 1926 (“Bohut salaam, sahib; / I think you owe me one, two…))
• 292 • Twilight on Stonehenge • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 292 • Ocean-Thoughts • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 293 • The Campus at Midnight • (1976) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 293 •  Letter to Edna Mann, October 30, 1926 (“Dear Friend; / As usual I have to start my letter…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Edna Mann, October 30, 1926 (“Dear Friend; / As usual I have to start my letter with an apology…”))
• 293 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late August / early September 1927 (“Are you the young man to whom…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late August / early September 1927 (“ARE YOU THE YOUNG MAN…”))
• 293 • Untitled poem (“Take some honey from a cat…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 294 • Revenge • (1990) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 294 • Where Strange Gods Squall (“Yes, I might have learned…”) • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 295 • Legend • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 295 • The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 295 • Untitled poem (“Against the blood red moon a tower stands…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 296 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. fall 1927 (“Salaam: / Then the little boy said to Goofus Gorilla…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. fall 1927 (“Salaam: / Then the little boy said to…”))
• 296 • Where Strange Gods Squall II (“There it was…”) • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 296 • Untitled poem (“Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 297 •  Letter to Harold Preece, ca. early 1928 (“Salaam: / You’ll have to pardon me for not having…”) • [Letters to Harold Preece] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Harold Preece, ca. early 1928 (“Salaam: / You’ll have to pardon me for not having…”))
• 297 • The Robes of the Righteous • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 297 • Untitled poem (“What’s become of Waring…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 297 • Untitled poem (“After the trumps are sounded…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 299 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, week of February 20, 1928 (“The fellow who wrote ‘The Kasidah’ strung a lot…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (1989) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 300 • Untitled play (“A typical small town drugstore…”) • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 303 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 (“Salaam: / Not having much of anything specially to say…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1928 (“Salaam: / Not having much of anything specially…”))
• 304 • Repentance • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 304 • How to Select a Successful Evangelist • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 304 • A Song of Cheer • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 305 • Untitled story (“Thoid round de Kid…”) • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 307 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 (“Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights lift amain…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. June 1928 (“Salaam; / Ho, ho, the long lights lift…”))
• 307 • The Rump of Swift • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 307 • Untitled poem (“I am Man from the primal, I…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 308 • A Young Wife’s Tale • (1987) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 308 • Lesbia • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 309 • A Roman Lady • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 310 • Song of a Fugitive Bard • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 310 • Untitled poem (“They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 311 • Nights to Both of Us Known • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 311 • Untitled poem (“A cringing woman’s lot is hard…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 312 •  Letter to Harold Preece, ca. June 1928 (“Salaam: / No, I was not trying to catch flies…”) • [Letters to Harold Preece] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Harold Preece, ca. June 1928 (“Salaam: / No, I was not trying to catch flies…”))
• 313 • A Warning to Orthodoxy • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 313 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1928 (“Salaam: / A Warning to Orthodoxy / Frozen crust that a hoof…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1928 (“Salaam: / A Warning to Orthodoxy…”))
• 314 •  Letter to Harold Preece, ca. September 1928 (“Salaam: / Tunney sure gave Heeney a tough…”) • [Letters to Harold Preece] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Harold Preece, ca. September 1928 (“Salaam: / Tunney sure gave Heeney a tough beating…”))
• 315 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1928 (“Salaam; / The reason I’m sending ‘The Junto’ to you…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1928 (“Salaam: / The reason I’m sending ‘The Junto’ to you…”))
• 316 • A Song of the Anchor Chain • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 316 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 (“Salaam: / Listen you goddamn so forth…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 (“Salaam: / Listen you goddamn so forth and so on…”))
• 317 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 (“Salaam: / I got such a laugh out of your parody…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1928 (“Salaam: / I got such a laugh out of your parody…”))
• 317 • The Ballad of Abe Slickemmore • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 318 • Nancy Hawk – A Legend of Virginity • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 321 • Untitled poem (“Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 321 • Untitled story (“Tumba Hooey was an…”) • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 322 • To a Nameless Woman • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 323 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 (“Salaam: / Heh heh! / Sappho, the Grecian hills…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November-December 1928 (“Salaam: / Heh heh! / Sappho, the Grecian hills…”))
• 323 • Untitled poem (“Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 323 • Untitled poem (“Romona! Romona!…”) • (2002) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 323 • Untitled poem (“Now come the days of high…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of A Fable for Critics)
• 324 • Untitled poem (“My brother he was an auctioneer…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 326 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 (“Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s, over by the loop…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1928 (“Salaam: / Out in front of Goldstein’s…”))
• 326 • An American • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 326 • Untitled poem (“I carved a woman…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 326 • Untitled poem (“Out in front of Goldstein’s, over by the Loop…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 326 • The Deed beyond the Deed • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 328 • Untitled poem (“There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 328 • Untitled poem (“Stay not from me, that veil of dreams…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Shadow of Dreams 1929)
• 329 • My Children • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 330 • Untitled poem (“The women come and…”) • (2002) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Slayer)
• 331 • Untitled poem (“Silence falls on Mecca’s walls…”) • (1987) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls)
• 331 • Untitled poem (“The chariots were chanting in the gloom…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Last Words He Heard)
• 332 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. late 1928 (“Salaam: / I’ll swear, if I’d laughed much more…”))
• 332 • Untitled poem (“Flappers flicker and flap and flirt …”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 332 • Untitled poem (“I hold all women are a gang of tramps… “) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 332 • Untitled poem (“Love is singing soft and low…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 332 • The People of the Winged Skulls • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 337 • Ancient English Balladel • (1987) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 337 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 (“Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel by Redbriht Howarde…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1929 (“Salaam: / Ancient English Balladel…”))
• 337 • Untitled poem (“Moonlight and shadows barred the land…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 338 • Untitled poem (“At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to win or lose…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 341 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 (“Salaam: / Black Dawn / 1. Shadows / A black moon…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929 (“Salaam: / Black Dawn…”))
• 341 • Shadows (“A black moon nailed against a sullen dawn…”) • [The Black Dawn Sequence • 1] • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 341 • Clouds • [The Black Dawn Sequence • 2] • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 341 • Shrines • [The Black Dawn Sequence • 3] • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 342 • The Iron Harp (“They sell brown men for gold in Zanzibar…”) • [The Black Dawn Sequence • 4] • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 342 • Invocation • [The Black Dawn Sequence • 5] • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 343 • The Path of the Strange Wanderers • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 343 • At the Bazaar • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 343 • Untitled story (“‘Hatrack!’ a voice came to me…”) • (2007) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 344 • Untitled poem (“By old Abie Goldstein’s pawnshop…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 344 • Untitled poem (“There was an old Dick whose name was Stiff…”) • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 345 • Bastards All! • (1987) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 350 • Songs of Bastards • (1987) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 355 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early to mid 1929 (“Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist among the stars…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of To Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early to mid 1929 (“Salaam: / Life is a yellow mist among…”))
• 356 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1930 (“Salaam; Fear Orghruagach; / Life is a cynical, romantic pig…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 356 • To a Roman Woman • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 356 • Ivory in the Night • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 356 • Untitled poem (“Life is a cynical, romantic pig…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 357 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. April 1930 (“Salaam; / Well, Fear Finn, I believe in days gone yore…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 357 • The Mutiny on the Hellroarer • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 358 • Untitled poem (“Thorfinn, thorfinn, where have you…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Return of the Sea-Farer 1978)
• 359 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1930 (“Well, Fear Finn, / I hope this letter finds you o.k…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 359 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1930 (“Salaam, Fear Finn: / Then Stein the peddler with rising joy…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 359 • Untitled poem (“Then Stein the peddler with rising joy…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 359 • Untitled poem (“I was once, I declare, a grog-shop man…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of A Ballad of Beer 1989)
• 360 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. July 1930 (“Salaam, Fear Finn: / Well, me bauld Buccaneer, I sold…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 360 • Lives and Crimes of Notable Artists • (1995) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 361 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1930 (“Well, Fear Finn: / I read your article in the…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 361 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, probably ca. December 1930 (“Fear Finn: / I’m not surprized that Byrne turned down…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 363 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. December 1930 (“Well, Fear Finn: / I don’t know when I’ll be able…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 363 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. January 1931 (“Well, Fear Finn: / You owe me a letter…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 364 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1931 (“Fear Finn: / I’ve delayed writing you, hoping…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 364 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1931 (“Well, Fear Finn: / Congratulations on your history book…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 365 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 14, 1931 (“Well, Fear Finn: / Heigho for sunny San Antonio. It’s been…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 366 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, week of May 18, 1931 (“Fear Finn: / I should have answered your letters before…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 366 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early June 1931 (“Fear Finn: / Thanks very much for the ‘Frontier Times’…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 367 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931 (“Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children and you shall be told…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa September 1931 (“Fear Finn: / Lizzen my children and you…”) 1991)
• 367 • Untitled poem (“Lizzen my children and you shall be told…”) • (1991) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 368 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1931 (“Fear Finn: / I’ve been waiting for a letter from you…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 368 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1931 (“Fear Finn: / The reason I haven’t written you sooner…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 368 •  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. October 1931 (“Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / Many thanks for the opportunity of reading…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 369 • The Last Day • (1932) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 369 • Moonlight on a Skull • (1933) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 369 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, November 1931 (“Fear Finn: / Here are the blasted verses and a few…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 370 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. early January 1932 (“Dear Clyde: / I only learned of your uncle’s death…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 370 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1932 (“Fear Finn: / Well, how runs the world these days…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 371 • Postcard to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. February 1932 (“This isn’t to flaunt my homely countenance…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 371 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1932 (“Fear Finn: / Sorry to hear you’ve been carved on again…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 372 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1932 (“Fear Finnel: / When I wzs a kie in East Texas there…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 373 •  Letter to Carl Swanson, ca. March 1932 (“Dear Mr. Swanson: I am sending you, under separate cover…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 373 •  Letter to Carl Swanson, ca. April 1932 (“Dear Mr. Swanson: I am interested in your publication…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 373 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 (“Fear Finn: / Just a bit of press-agenting…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 374 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1932 (“Fear Finn: / Well, here I am back at the old home…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 374 •  Letter to Carl Swanson, ca. late May 1932 (“Dear Mr. Swanson: I’m sorry you had to give up the idea…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 375 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. very late May 1932 (“Fear Finn: / Let us tool forth to Australia…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 376 • Postcard to H. P. Lovecraft, July 9, 1932 (“Ruins of Fort McKavett, July 9, 1933…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 376 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. August 1932 (“Fear Finn: / I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed a pome…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 377 • Dreaming in Israel • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 377 • Samson’s Broodings • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 378 •  Letter to Kirk Mashburn, ca. September 1932 (“Dear Mr. Mashburn: / Just a line (and rather belated too)…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 378 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. November 1932 (“Fear Finn: / Well, I finally got around to…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 378 • Lines to G. B. Shaw • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 379 • Musings (“To every man his trade…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 379 • A Mick in Israel • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 380 •  Letter to Donald Wandrei, ca. February 21, 1933 (“Dear Mr. Wandrei: / I’ve been intending to write…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 380 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. May 1933 (“Fear Finn: / I was in Brownwood yesterday…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 380 • Envoy • (2007) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 381 •  Letter to The Claytons Magazines, June 13, 1933 (“Gentlemen: / A few weeks ago I wrote you…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 381 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1933 (“Fear Finn: / The Galleon Press has just bought out…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 381 •  Letter to Charles D. Hornig, November 1, 1933 (“Dear Mr. Hornig: / Thanks for the copy of ‘The Fantasy Fan’…”) • [Letters to Charles D. Hornig / The Fantasy Fan] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 382 • Card to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked December 20, 1933 (“Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas…”) • [Letters to Clark Ashton Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 382 •  Letter to R. Fowler Gafford, May 20, 1934 (“Dear Fowler: / This answer to your last letter…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 383 •  Letter to Dennis Archer, May 22, 1934 (“Dear Sir: As you doubtless remember, in your…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 383 •  Letter to William Kofoed, January 8, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Kofoed: / Glad that Bloomfield can use…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 384 •  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. January 1935 (“Dear HPL: / I have finally found time to answer…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 389 •  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)
• 389 •  Letter to Charles D. Hornig, May 3, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Hornig: / I’m very sorry to learn that…”) • [Letters to Charles D. Hornig / The Fantasy Fan] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 390 •  Letter to Otis Adelbert Kline, May 13, 1935 (“Dear Kline: / I’m writing this to ask for some…”) • [Letters to Otis Adelbert Kline] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 390 •  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. May 1935 (“Dear HPL: / The reason I haven’t answered your letter…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 397 • Postcard to August Derleth, postmarked June 30, 1935 (“This card was purchased in Lincoln, N.M…”) • [Letters to August Derleth] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 398 •  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. July 1935 (“Dear HPL: / Thanks very much for the fine…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 408 •  Letter to Robert H. Barlow, December 17, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Barlow: / Thank you very much for the copy…”) • [Letters to R. H. Barlow] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 408 •  Letter to August Lenniger, December 27, 1935 (“Dear Mr. Lenniger: I have received your letter of the…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 409 •  Letter to Otis Adelbert Kline, January 8, 1936 (“Dear Kline: / A belated acknowledgment of the check…”) • [Letters to Otis Adelbert Kline] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 409 •  Letter to Otis Adelbert Kline, January 13, 1936 (“Dear Kline: / Just read yours of the 11th…”) • [Letters to Otis Adelbert Kline] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 410 •  Letter to Otis Adelbert Kline, January 18, 1936 (“Dear Kline: / Just read your letter of the 15th…”) • [Letters to Otis Adelbert Kline] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 411 •  Letter to Novalyne Price, February 14, 1936 (“Dear Novalyne: / I heard yesterday you had the mumps…”) • [Letters to Novalyne Price] • (1986) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 412 •  Letter to August Derleth, May 9, 1936 (“Dear August: / I am indeed sorry to learn of the deaths…”) • [Letters to August Derleth] • (1976) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 412 •  Letter to Frank Thurston Torbett, postmarked April 28, 1936 (“Dear Thurston: I’m sorry I have not been able…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 413 • A Warning (“You have built a world of paper and wood … “) • (1964) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 414 • Partial draft of May 13 Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, May 11, 1936 (“Dear HPL: I am indeed sorry to hear…”) • [Letters to H. P. Lovecraft] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 414 •  Letter to ‘Weird Tales’, ca. May 1936 (“Enthusiasm impels me to pause from…”) • [Letters to Weird Tales] • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter (Weird Tales, June 1936): Concise Comments 1936)
• 415 •  Letter to Novalyne Price, May 27, 1936 (“Dear Novalyne, / You needn’t have bothered about …”) • [Letters to Novalyne Price] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 415 •  Letter to “The Californian Magazine”, summer 1936 (“Thank you very much for the…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 415 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. before July 1925 (“King Bahthur’s Court / Prologue…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 415 • King Balthur’s Court • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 416 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. between mid 1926 and March 1928 (“Ha ha! You’re not going to get off so easily…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 416 • L’envoi (“Now flapper ridden flivvers whiz…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 417 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated (“Salaam: / Again glancing over your last letter…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 418 • I Praise My Nativity • (1987) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 418 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated (“The Seeker thrust warily at a door…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 418 • Surrender (“Open the window and let me go…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 418 • Dreaming • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 418 • Untitled fragment (“The Seeker thrust warily…”) • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 419 • To Certain Cultured Women • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 420 • Out of the Deep • [Voices of the Night • 1] • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Voices Waken Memory 1934)
• 420 • Untitled poem (“Over the hills the winds of the sea…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Winds of the Sea)
• 421 • Laughter in the Gulfs • [Voices of the Night • 4] • (1957) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 421 • Moon Shame • [Voices of the Night • 2] • (1957) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 421 • Babel • [Voices of the Night • 3] • (1935) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 422 • A Crown for a King • [Voices of the Night • 5] • (1976) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 423 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated (“If you don’t publish this would you…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 423 • The Viking of the Sky • (1998) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 424 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, undated (“Salaam: / Skulls Against the Dawn / Oh, who comes…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 424 • Skulls against the Dawn • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 425 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. probably late 1928 (“Salaam: / SHADOWS OF DREAMS…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 425 • Shadows of Dreams • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 425 • Drummings on an Empty Skull • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 427 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. probably late 1928, early 1929 (“Salaam: / I have forgotten whether you or Truett…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 427 • A Song of College • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 428 • That Women May Sing of Us • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 428 • Sighs in the Yellow Leaves • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 429 • Ballade • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 429 • A Song of Greenwich • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 430 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. before 1930, probably late 1928 or 1929 (“Salaam: / As my dear public remembers, I was appointed…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 430 • Untitled story (“As my dear public remembers…”) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 432 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. before 1930, after July 1925, probably circa early 1929 (“Salaam: / There once was a wicked old elf…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 432 • Untitled poem (“There once was a wicked old elf…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 432 • Untitled poem (“There are grim things did, in the East, old kid…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 433 • To Lyle Saxon • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 433 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. after 1930 (“Well, Fear Finn, I read your story…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 434 • A Challenge to Bast • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 434 • The Cuckoo’s Revenge • (1987) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 434 • The Madness of Cormac • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 435 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. after mid-1931 (“Fear Finn: / I’m damned if I can think of anything…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 435 • Untitled poem (“My empty skull is full of dust…”) • (1989) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of A Poet’s Skull)
• 436 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, date unknown (“Not even a movie in this god forsaken…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 436 •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. after mid-1932 (“Ahatou noyon, Fear Finn: / Thinking of nothing particularly…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 437 • The Werewolf Murder Case • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 438 • The Adventurer’s Mistress (“The fogs of night fling banners red…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 440 • I’ve done my part in writing it. You fellows can name it. • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 440 • Untitled poem (“There were three lads who went their destined ways…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 441 • Poem penned by Akbar Ali • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 441 • Untitled poem (“Match a toad with a far-winged hawk…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 442 • Crusade • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 442 • Renunciation • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 444 •  Thoughts of an Afghan on a raid • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 444 •  ”Relentless” Reginald and his partner in crime, “Chorus-girl” Percival Vanderbilt • (1998) • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 445 •  Drawing of a Strange Cow • interior artwork by Robert E. Howard
• 445 •  Letter to unknown recipient, undated (“Salaam: / Not much to say. My brain seems…”) • essay by Robert E. Howard
• 471 • Untitled poem (“She came in the grey of the desert dawn…”) • poem by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Coming of Bast (Draft) 2009)

Notes

Contains a First Appearance
Edited by Patrice Louinet and Rob Roehm