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The Early Adventures of El Borak

REH Foundation Press

2010
Edition format
Hardcover

Publication date: March 2010

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Introduction

The REH Foundation Press is proud to present The Early Adventures of El Borak. This volume contains those hard-to-find stories from the Cryptic publications of the 1980s, as well as several other related items, including the first publication of a synopsis for “Blood of the Gods.” The vast majority of the pieces in this collection are fragments and juvenilia.This volume checks in at 350 pages, and will be printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 150 copies, each individually numbered. Cover design and painting by Jim & Ruth Keegan; introduction by David Hardy; and edited by Rob Roehm.Contents

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Hardcover with dust jacket
Publication date
March 2010
Pages
xiv plus 350
Publisher / imprint
The REH Foundation Press
Cover art
Jim & Ruth Keegan
Illustrations
None

41 linked Howard works

3 Howard works in this publication

55 contents entries

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction: "The Making of El Borak" by David Hardy
  3. The Coming of El Borak
  4. "The Iron Terror"
  5. Untitled "Gordon, the American"
  6. "The Coming of El Borak"
  7. "Khoda Khan’s Tale"
  8. "El Borak" (2, "Were you ever stranded …" )
  9. Untitled "I emptied my revolver …"
  10. "The Land of Mystery"
  11. "The Shunned Castle"
  12. "The White Jade Ring"
  13. "A Power Among the Islands"
  14. "North of Khyber"
  15. "Intrigue in Kurdistan"
  16. Lal Singh, Oriental Gentleman
  17. "The Sword of Lal Singh" (poem)
  18. "The Tale of the Rajah’s Ring"
  19. "The Further Adventures of Lal Singh"
  20. "Lal Singh, Oriental Gentleman"
  21. The Adventures of Yar Ali Khan
  22. "The Song of Yar Ali Khan" (poem)
  23. "The Lion Gate"
  24. Untitled "When Yar Ali Khan crept"
  25. Untitled "Two men were standing"
  26. Untitled "Now bright, now red" (poem)
  27. Steve Allison: The Sonora Kid
  28. "The Sonora Kid—Cowhand"
  29. "The Sonora Kid’s Winning Hand"
  30. "Red Curls and Bobbed Hair"
  31. Untitled "Madge Meraldson set her …"
  32. Untitled "The Hades Saloon and gambling hall, …"
  33. Untitled "A blazing sun in a blazing sky …"
  34. Untitled "The way it came about that Steve Allison …"
  35. Untitled "The hot Arizona sun had not risen …"
  36. Untitled "Steve Allison settled himself down …"
  37. "Brotherly Advice"
  38. "Desert Rendezvous"
  39. "The West Tower"
  40. Miscellanea
  41. "Under the Great Tiger" by REH & Tevis Clyde Smith
  42. Untitled "A Cossack and a Turk"
  43. "Spears of the East"
  44. Untitled "… that is, the artistry"
  45. Untitled "Thure Khan gazed out"
  46. Untitled Synopsis: "Blood of the Gods"
  47. Maps, Sketches and Lists
  48. Possibly for "Blood of the Gods" (map)
  49. For an unidentified story (map)
  50. Found on the back of typescript pages for "Three-Bladed Doom) (drawing)
  51. "Thoughts of an Afghan on a Raid" (drawing)
  52. "Where East and West shall meet" (drawing)
  53. List of names found in El Borak stories (manuscript)
  54. List of Middle Eastern Rulers (typescript)
  55. "A Biographical Sketch of Robert E. Howard" by Alvin Earl Perry - Contains the following REH letter: Letter to Alvin Earl Perry, ca. early 1935, "The first character I ever created …"

Contributors

Rob Roehm
Editor
David Hardy
Introduction author
Jim Keegan
Cover artist
Ruth Keegan
Cover artist

Characters / Featuring

El BorakThe Sonora KidSteve AllisonLal SinghYar Ali Khan

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Tevis Clyde Smith
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