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Writer of the Dark

Dark Carneval Press

1986
Edition format
Paperback
Contains
PoetryStories

Publication date: October 1986

Introduction

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. 

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".

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Trade Paperback
Publication date
October 1986
Pages
180
Publisher / imprint
Dark Carneval Press
Cover art
Bodo Schäfer & Thomas Kovacs
Illustrations
Bodo Schäfer

17 linked Howard works

38 contents entries

  1. "Foreword" by Thomas Kovacs
  2. Foreword (Writer of the Dark) • (1986) • essay by Thomas Kovacs ii · introduction
  3. "Introduction" by Glenn Lord
  4. Introduction (Writer of the Dark) • (1986) • essay by Glenn Lord iv · introduction
  5. Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. October 1928 "Salaam; I could have gone ..."
  6. 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) vi · essay
  7. "Skulls" (poem)
  8. Skulls • (1984) • poem by Robert E. Howard 1 · poem
  9. "Ghost Dancers" (poem)
  10. Ghost Dancers • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard 2 · poem
  11. "Long Ago" (1, poem)
  12. Long Ago • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard 4 · poem
  13. "Tiger Girl" (poem)
  14. Tiger Girl • (1976) • poem by Robert E. Howard 5 · poem
  15. "Let the Gods Die" (poem)
  16. Let the Gods Die • (1976) • poem by Robert E. Howard 6 · poem
  17. "Swamp Murder" (poem)
  18. Swamp Murder • (1975) • poem by Robert E. Howard 7 · poem
  19. "The Cooling of Spike McRue" (poem)
  20. The Cooling of Spike McRue • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard 8 · poem
  21. "A Legend" (poem)
  22. A Legend • (1986) • poem by Robert E. Howard 10 · poem
  23. "The Song of the Gallows Tree" (poem)
  24. The Song of the Gallows Tree • (1980) • poem by Robert E. Howard 11 · poem
  25. "Song Before Clontarf" (poem)
  26. Song Before Clontarf • (1975) • poem by Robert E. Howard 12 · poem
  27. "The Ghost With the Silk Hat"
  28. The Ghost with the Silk Hat • [Steve Bender] • novelette by Robert E. Howard 13 · novelette
  29. "Graveyard Rats"
  30. Graveyard Rats • [Steve Harrison] • (1936) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 61 · novelette
  31. "Teeth of Doom"
  32. Teeth of Doom • [Steve Harrison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Tomb's Secret) [as by Patrick Ervin] 91 · novelette
  33. "The Mark of a Bloody Hand"
  34. The Mark of a Bloody Hand • (1986) • short story by Robert E. Howard 115 · story
  35. "Spears of Clontarf"
  36. Spears of Clontarf • non-genre • [Turlogh O'Brien] • (1978) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 124 · novelette
  37. "A Gent from the Pecos"
  38. A Gent from the Pecos • non-genre • [Pike Bearfield] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 161 · story

Contributors

Bodo Schäfer
Illustrator

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Glenn LordPatrick ErvinPike BearfieldRobert E. HowardSteve BenderSteve HarrisonTevis Clyde SmithThomas KovacsTurlogh O'Brien

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Bibliographic source layer

Title
Writer of the Dark
Publisher
Dark Carneval Press
Date
October 1986
Source file
writerofthedark.html

REH World editorial layer

Title
Writer of the Dark
Publisher
Dark Carneval Press
Date
October 1986
Source provenance

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