Tales of Weird Menace collects Howard’s Weird Menace and Yellow Peril yarns, many of which have never seen book publication in the U.S. It includes a hefty “Miscellanea” section featuring hard-to-find fragments and synopses. This volume is 473 pages, plus introductory material.

This volume was printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 300 copies, each individually numbered. Cover design and painting by Jim & Ruth Keegan; introduction by Don Herron; and edited by Rob Roehm.

Contents

• v • Acknowledgements (Tales of Weird Menace) • essay by uncredited
• vii • Introduction (Tales of Weird Menace) • essay by Don Herron
• 3 • Skull-Face • (1929) • novella by Robert E. Howard
• 95 • The Noseless Horror • (1970) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 111 • The Brazen Peacock • (1975) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 131 • Black John’s Veneance • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1974) • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Black Bear Bites)
• 145 • Talons in the Dark • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 163 • The Hand of the Black Goddess • [Butch Gorman & Brent Kirby] • (1983) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 197 • Sons of Hate • [Butch Gorman & Brent Kirby] • (1994) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 237 • Moon of Zambebwei • (1935) • novelette by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Grisly Horror)
• 267 • Black Hound of Death • (1936) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 293 • The Devils of Dark Lake • (1974) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 319 • Guests of the Hoodoo Room • (1984) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 365 • Black Wind Blowing • (1936) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 391 • The Red Stone • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 392 • Untitled fragment (“The night was damp, misty, the air possessing…”) • [Gordon] • (1976) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 397 • The Ivory Camel • (2007) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 402 • Yellow Laughter • (2008) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 404 • The Story Thus Far … • (1934) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 406 • Taverel Manor (fragment) • (1978) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 421 • The Jade God • (1992) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 426 • The Return of the Sorcerer • (1976) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 435 • Untitled Synopsis (“James Norris…”) • (1976) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 437 • Spectres in the Dark • (1985) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 450 • The Spell of Damballah • (1987) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 456 • Untitled Synopsis (Sons of Hate – partial) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 457 • Untitled Synopsis (“The Devils of Dark Lake”) • [Steve Gorman] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
• 462 • The House of Om (synopsis) • (1984) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard

Notes

Edited by Rob Roehm
First printing limited to 150 copies. Subsequent printings of 50 copies each up to a total of 300 copies.
“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.