This is a great collection of poems and stories by Robert E. Howard. Published by Dark Carneval Press by Thomas Kovacs in 1986. Beautiful illustrations by Bodo Schäfer. 

Contents

• ii • Foreword (Writer of the Dark) • (1986) • essay by Thomas Kovacs
• iv • Introduction (Writer of the Dark) • (1986) • essay by Glenn Lord
• vi •  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa 1930 (“Salaam: / I could have gone with you…”) • [Letters to Tevis Clyde Smith] • (1986) • essay by Robert E. Howard (variant of Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1928 (“Salaam: / I could have gone with you for dinner…”) 1989)
• 1 • Skulls • (1984) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 2 • Ghost Dancers • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 4 • Long Ago • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 5 • Tiger Girl • (1976) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 6 • Let the Gods Die • (1976) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 7 • Swamp Murder • (1975) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 8 • The Cooling of Spike McRue • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 10 • A Legend • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 11 • The Song of the Gallows Tree • (1980) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 12 • Song Before Clontarf • (1975) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 13 • The Ghost with the Silk Hat • [Steve Bender] • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 61 • Graveyard Rats • [Steve Harrison] • (1936) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 91 • Teeth of Doom • [Steve Harrison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Tomb’s Secret) [as by Patrick Ervin]
• 115 • The Mark of a Bloody Hand • (1986) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 124 • Spears of Clontarf • non-genre • [Turlogh O’Brien] • (1978) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 161 • A Gent from the Pecos • non-genre • [Pike Bearfield] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard

Notes

As of early 2000 there were 500 sets of pages, with 200 bound in a reddish orange paper with a rat design, and 120 more in an undecorated tan paper (“after he lost the first cover design”). Another “80 were lost in a flood,” with 100 more as yet unbound, but intended to appear as hardcovers.
Edited and published by Thomas Kovacs out of Zurich.
No ISBN or price.
Published to mark the 50th anniversary of Howard’s death.
A limited edition of 500 copies was printed.
200 copies bound and numbered in 1986 with red wraps (this publication).
3 hardcover copies were also bound, one for the publisher, one for Bodo Schäfer (illustrator) and one for Glenn Lord.
Another 150 copies were bound and numbered in tan covers without an illustration in 2002. Some of the tan copies bound in “The Rhyme of the Three Slavers”.