First published in Weird Tales, June 1929. In Germany Kane meets a traveler named Gaston L’Armon, who seems familiar to Kane, and together they take rooms in the Cleft Skull Tavern. At this time in his career, Howard was an inexperienced professional writer. Several times when he sent his drafts story to Weird Tales, he was careful to prepare carbons. When the first draft of Rattle of Bones was written, Howard decided that it needed another ending. The draft consisted of seven pages of which he rewrote the last two and changed the ending. This was what he sent to Weird Tales and what was published. The REH Foundation printed the first version of the 1928 story in their very first issue of ‘The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter’ in the spring of 2007.

Contents

• 724 • The House of Golden Masks • [Jules de Grandin] • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• 724 •  The House of Golden Masks • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
• 733 •  The House of Golden Masks [2] • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
• 741 • The Abysmal Invaders • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 741 •  The Abysmal Invaders • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
• 759 • The World-Wrecker (Part 3 of 3) • serial by Arlton Eadie
• 759 •  The World-Wrecker (Part 3 of 3) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak]
• 768 • The Doomed • poem by Dorothy Marie Peterkin
• 769 • Black Tancrède • [Gerald Canevin] • novelette by Henry S. Whitehead
• 769 •  Black Tancrède • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak]
• 780 •  Folks Used to Believe • (1927) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
• 780 • The Mouse Legend • [Folks Used to Believe] • essay by Alvin F. Harlow
• 781 • The Last of the Mayas (Part 1 of 2) • serial by Arthur Thatcher
• 781 •  The Last of the Mayas (Part 1 of 2) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
• 807 •  Weird Tales, June 1929 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Weird Tales, January 1925 1925)
• 808 • Rattle of Bones • [Solomon Kane] • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 809 •  Rattle of Bones • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak]
• 813 • When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead • short story by Robert Peery
• 813 •  When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak]
• 819 • The Rosicrucian Lamp • novelette by Stephen Bagby
• 819 •  The Rosicrucian Lamp • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin [as by Doak]
• 838 • The House on the Highway • short story by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth]
• 841 • The Legend of Denarius • short story by Louis Sarno
• 843 •  Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin
• 843 • The Wind That Tramps the World • [John Steppling] • (1925) • short story by Frank Owen
• 850 •  Weird Tales, June 1929 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Green Scarab 1925)
• 851 •  The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch
• 851 • The Eyrie (Weird Tales, June 1929) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor
• 851 •  Letter (Weird Tales, June 1929) • essay by Alvin V. Pershing [as by A. V. Pershing]
• 851 •  Letter (Weird Tales, June 1929) • essay by Jack T. Whitfield
• 852 •  Letter (Weird Tales, June 1929) • essay by Jack Conroy
• 852 •  Letter (Weird Tales, June 1929) • essay by Bernard Austin Dwyer
• 853 • Future Issues (Weird Tales, June 1929) • essay by uncredited
• 854 •  Letter (Weird Tales, June 1929) • essay by T. Windsor
• 858 • Vampire • poem by Bertrande Harry Snell

Notes

Weird Tales Volume 13 Number 6
Page numbers run from 721 to 864 excluding covers.
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