Shrieks and Chants from Pale Shadows: Verses of Perversion and Mania

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34 linked Howard works

• A Challenge to Bast verse Poetry Publications
• A Roman Lady verse Poetry Publications
• A Song from an Ebony Heart verse Poetry Publications
• A Young Wife's Tale verse Poetry Publications
• Altars and Jesters (1) verse Poetry Publications
• And there were lethal women verse Poetry Publications
• Astarte's Idol Stands Alone verse Poetry Publications
• Black Dawn verse Poetry · Shadows (1) Poetry · Clouds Poetry · Shrines Poetry · The Iron Harp (2) Poetry · Invocation Publications
• Daughter of Evil verse Poetry Publications
• Desire verse Poetry Publications
• Egypt verse Poetry Publications
• Flaming Marble verse Poetry Publications
• Fragment verse Poetry Publications
• Lesbia verse Poetry Publications
• Lilith verse Poetry Publications
• Love verse Poetry Publications
• Love's Young Dream verse Poetry Publications
• Lust verse Poetry Publications
• Moon Shame verse Poetry Publications
• Prelude verse Poetry Publications
• Silence Falls On Mecca'sWalls verse Poetry Publications
• Skulls and Orchids story Howard writing Publications
• Strange Passion verse Poetry Publications
• The Coming of Bast verse Poetry Publications
• The Dust Dance (1, "For I, with the . . .") verse Poetry Publications
• The Gods Remember (2, "The glories of the ages") verse Poetry Publications
• The Heart of the Sea's Desire verse Poetry Publications
• The Palace of Bast verse Poetry Publications
• The Sea Girl verse Poetry Publications
• Tiger Girl verse Poetry Publications
• To a Certain Cultured Woman verse Poetry Publications
• To a Roman Woman verse Poetry Publications
• Untitled ("A cringing woman's lot is hard") verse Poetry Publications
• Zukala's Love Song verse Poetry Publications

36 contents entries

1. "Introduction" by Charles Hoffman
2. "Prelude" (poem)
3. "Lilith" (poem)
4. "Egypt" (poem)
5. "The Coming of Bast" (poem)
6. "A Challenge to Bast" (poem)
7. "The Palace of Bast" (poem)
8. "The Gods Remember" (2, poem)
9. "The Dust Dance" (1, poem, lines 53 to 72)
10. "Astarte's Idol Stands Alone" (poem)
11. "Flaming Marble" (poem)
12. "Lesbia" (poem)
13. "Skulls and Orchids"
14. "A Roman Lady" (poem)
15. "To a Roman Woman" (poem)
16. "Flaming Marble"
17. "Altars and Jesters" (1, poem)
18. "Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" (poem)
19. "Daughter of Evil" (poem)
20. "Black Dawn" (poem)
21. "Moon Shame" (poem)
22. "Zukala's Love Song" (poem)
23. "The Heart of the Sea's Desire" (poem)
24. "The Sea Girl" (poem)
25. "Tiger Girl" (poem)
26. Untitled "And there were lethal women" (poem)
27. "A Young Wife’s Tale" (poem)
28. Untitled ("A cringing woman’s lot is hard") (poem)
29. "Strange Passion" (poem)
30. "To a Certain Cultured Woman" (poem)
31. "Lust" (poem)
32. "A Song from an Ebony Heart" (poem)
33. "Love" (poem)
34. "Love's Young Dream" (poem)
35. "Fragment" (poem)
36. "Desire" (poem)