Tales of Weird Menace: Ultimate Edition presents Robert E. Howard’s Weird Menace and Yellow Peril stories, restored from his original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Most texts come from the Glenn Lord Collection, Texas A&M, and the Cross Plains Library. “Skull-Face” is primarily sourced from its original typescript, while “The Story Thus Far” follows its first publication.

This edition features revised texts for “Moon of Zambebwei” and “The Noseless Horror,” restores the original typescripts for “The Night Was Damp” and “Yellow Laughter,” expands “Taverel Manor” from 15 to 24 pages, and adds new synopses for “Sons of Hate,” “Black Hound of Death,” and “Moon of Zambebwei.”

With over 500 pages, a new cover by Mark Wheatley, an introduction by Don Herron, and editing by Paul Herman and Rob Roehm, this volume is the definitive collection of Howard’s dark and thrilling tales.

Contents

• iii • Acknowledgments
• vii • Lines of Succession
• introduction by Don Herron

Tales of Weird Menace

• 3 • Skull-Face
• 99 • The Noseless Horror
• 115 • The Brazen Peacock
• 135 • Black John’s Vengeance
• 149 • Talons in the Dark
• 167 • The Hand of the Black Goddess
• 203 • Sons of Hate
• 245 • Moon of Zambebwei
• 277 • Black Hound of Death
• 305 • The Devils of Dark Lake
• 331 • Guests of the Hoodoo Room
• 379 • Black Wind Blowing

Miscellanea

• 405 • Taverel Manor (unfinished)
• 431 • The Return of the Sorcerer (unfinished)
• 441 • “From the black, bandit-haunted mountains . . .” (untitled and unfinished)
• 443 • The Red Stone (unfinished)
• 445 • “The night was damp…” (untitled and unfinished)
• 451 • The Ivory Camel (unfinished)
• 457 • Yellow Laughter (fragment)
• 459 • The Jade God (unfinished)
• 465 • Spectres in the Dark (unfinished)
• 479 • The Spell of Damballah (unfinished)
• 485 • “James Norris…” (untitled synopsis)
• 487 • Sons of Hate (partial synopsis 1)
• 489 • Sons of Hate (partial synopsis 2)
• 491 • Sons of Hate (partial synopsis 3)
• 493 • The Devils of Dark Lake (untitled synopsis)
• 499 • The House of Om (synopsis)
• 511 • The Black Hound of Death (synopsis)
• 513 • Moon of Zambebwei (untitled synopsis)
• 517 • “The Story Thus Far…” (Skull-Face)

Notes

Edited by Rob Roehm and Paul Herman
Built and prepared for publication by Ståle Gismervik – Savage Studios.

The first edition printing was limited to 150 copies. Subsequent printings of 50 copies each up to a total of 300 copies.

The new Ultimate Edition is available as print-on-demand.

“The Story Thus Far” consists of the short paragraphs that appeared at the start of the second and third portions of “Skull-Face” as it appeared in WEIRD TALES. It is not known if REH wrote these or Farnsworth Wright.