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Tales of Weird Menace

REH Foundation Press

Publication date: TBA 2025

Introduction

Tales of Weird Menace: Ultimate Edition presents Robert E. Howard’s Weird Menace and Yellow Peril stories, restored from his original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Most texts come from the Glenn Lord Collection, Texas A&M, and the Cross Plains Library. “Skull-Face” is primarily sourced from its original typescript, while “The Story Thus Far” follows its first publication.

This edition features revised texts for “Moon of Zambebwei” and “The Noseless Horror,” restores the original typescripts for “The Night Was Damp” and “Yellow Laughter,” expands “Taverel Manor” from 15 to 24 pages, and adds new synopses for “Sons of Hate,” “Black Hound of Death,” and “Moon of Zambebwei.”

With over 500 pages, a new cover by Mark Wheatley, an introduction by Don Herron, and editing by Paul Herman and Rob Roehm, this volume is the definitive collection of Howard’s dark and thrilling tales.

Notes

Edited by Rob Roehm and Paul Herman
Built and prepared for publication by Ståle Gismervik - Savage Studios.

The first edition printing was limited to 150 copies. Subsequent printings of 50 copies each up to a total of 300 copies.

The new Ultimate Edition is available as print-on-demand.

"The Story Thus Far" consists of the short paragraphs that appeared at the start of the second and third portions of “Skull-Face” as it appeared in WEIRD TALES. It is not known if REH wrote these or Farnsworth Wright.

Edition and production details

Format details
Hardcover; Trade paperback
Format
hardcover
Publication date
TBA 2025
Pages
xiv plus 522
Publisher / imprint
Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Cover art
Mark Wheatley
Illustrations
None
Format
paperback
Publication date
TBA 2025
Pages
xiv plus 522
Publisher / imprint
Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Cover art
Mark Wheatley
Illustrations
None

34 linked Howard works

44 contents entries

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Acknowledgments iii
  3. "Lines of Succession" by Don Herron (Introduction)
  4. Lines of Succession vii
  5. "Skull-Face"
  6. introduction by Don Herron introduction
  7. "The Noseless Horror"
  8. "The Brazen Peacock"
  9. "Black John’s Vengeance"
  10. "Talons in the Dark"
  11. "The Hand of the Black Goddess"
  12. "Sons of Hate"
  13. "Moon of Zambebwei"
  14. "Black Hound of Death"
  15. "The Devils of Dark Lake"
  16. "Guests of the Hoodoo Room"
  17. "Black Wind Blowing"
  18. Miscellanea
  19. "Taverel Manor" (unfinished)
  20. "The Return of the Sorcerer" (unfinished)
  21. Untitled (From the black, bandit-haunted mountains … ) ( unfinished)
  22. “From the black, bandit-haunted mountains . . .” (untitled and unfinished) 441
  23. "The Red Stone" (unfinished)
  24. Untitled (The night was damp …) ( unfinished)
  25. “The night was damp...” (untitled and unfinished) 445
  26. "The Ivory Camel" (unfinished)
  27. "Yellow Laughter" (fragment)
  28. "The Jade God" (unfinished)
  29. "Spectres in the Dark" (unfinished)
  30. "The Spell of Damballah" (unfinished)
  31. Untitled (James Norris) (synopsis)
  32. “James Norris...” (untitled synopsis) 485
  33. "Sons of Hate" (partial synopsis 1)
  34. "Sons of Hate" (partial synopsis 2)
  35. "Sons of Hate" (partial synopsis 3)
  36. Untitled (The Devils of Dark Lake) (synopsis)
  37. The Devils of Dark Lake (untitled synopsis) 493
  38. "The House of Om" (synopsis)
  39. "Black Hound of Death" (synopsis)
  40. The Black Hound of Death (synopsis) 511
  41. Untitled (Moon of Zambebwei) (synopsis)
  42. Moon of Zambebwei (untitled synopsis) 513
  43. "The Story Thus Far …" (Skull-Face) (See Notes)
  44. “The Story Thus Far...” (Skull-Face) 517 · story

Contributors

Mark Wheatley
Cover artist

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

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Howard Works source layer

Title
Tales of Weird Menace
Publisher
REH Foundation Press
Date
March 2025
Source file
TalesofWeirdMenace-2nd-REHFPress.html

REH World editorial layer

Title
Tales of Weird Menace
Publisher
REH Foundation Press
Date
TBA 2025
Source provenance

This record combines the preserved Howard Works bibliography with a reviewed REH World editorial overlay. Editorial values are displayed when present; Howard Works remains the source and fallback.