Publication

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Skull-Face

Berkley (Berkley Medallion Books)

1978

Edition format

Paperback

Contains

Stories

Publication date: February 1978

Introduction

Contains the famous story Skull-Face (Steve Costigan), Lord of the Dead and Names in the Black Book (Steve Harrison). It also contains Taverel Manor which is a sort of follow-up no Skull-Face. This was never finished by Howard. Richard A. Lupoff wrote the rest of the story. Skull-Face was published in three parts in Weird Tales. October 1929, November 1929 and December 1929.

There is a fold out poster of the cover as well.

Notes

Stated Berkley Medallion edition, February, 1978.
Assumed 1st printing.Color fold out poster of cover art bound in.
Cover artist is uncredited. No visible signature. Kelly is confirmed by the online Robert E. Howard Bibliography.
Interior art is also uncredited. The two page illustration on page 8 and 9 is clearly signed as Hugh Rankin

Edition and production details

Language: English

Edition format: Paperback
Publication date: February 1978
Identifiers: ISBN: 0-425-03708-8 [978-0-425-03708-9]
Pages: 248
Publisher / imprint: Berkley (Berkley Medallion Books)
Cover art: Ken Kelly
Illustrations: Hugh Rankin

4 linked Howard works

Lord of the Dead story Howard writing Publications
Names in the Black Book story Howard writing Publications
Skull-Face story Howard writing Publications
Taveral Manor story Howard writing Publications

12 contents entries

"Pictures in the Flames" by Richard Lupoff
[bp] • Skull-Face (frontispiece) • interior artwork by uncredited artwork
"Skull-Face"
Pictures in the Flames-An Introduction • essay by Richard A. Lupoff 1 · introduction
"The Lord of the Dead"
Skull-Face • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 8 · artwork
"Names in the Black Book"
Skull-Face • (1929) • novella by Robert E. Howard 13 · novelette
"Taveral Manor" (Completed by Richard Lupoff)
Lord of the Dead • [Steve Harrison] • novelette by Robert E. Howard 115 · novelette
Names in the Black Book • [Steve Harrison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 153 · novelette
Taverel Manor • novelette by Robert E. Howard and Richard A. Lupoff 189 · novelette

Contributors

Ken Kelly: Cover artist
Hugh Rankin: Illustrator
Richard A. Lupoff: Introduction author

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

Robert E. Howard Steve Harrison

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Bibliographic source layer

Title: Skull-Face
Publisher: Berkley
Date: February 1978
Source file: sklfacey.htm

REH World editorial layer

Title: Skull-Face
Publisher: Berkley (Berkley Medallion Books)
Date: February 1978