The Dark Barbarian - The Writings of Robert E. Howard: A Critical Anthology

Edition and production details

Language

English

28 linked Howard works

• A Dawn in Flanders verse Publications
• A Lady's Chamber verse Publications
• A Song of Defeat verse Publications
• A Song of the Naked Lands verse Publications
• Age Comes to Rabelais verse Publications
• Crete verse Publications
• Dreams of Nineveh verse Publications
• Echoes from an Anvil verse Publications
• Hope Emptyof Meaning verse Publications
• Lines Written In theRealization That I Must Die verse Publications
• Reuben's Brethren verse Publications
• Roads verse Publications
• Solomon Kane's Homecoming (1, original) verse Publications
• Surrender (1, "I will rise . . .") verse Publications
• The Dust Dance (1, "For I, with the . . .") verse Publications
• The Dust Dance (2, "The sin and jest of the times am I") verse Publications
• The King and the Oak verse Publications
• The Outgoing of Sigurd the Jerusalem-Farer verse Publications
• The Riders of Babylon verse Publications
• The Road of Azrael verse Publications
• The Sands of Time verse Publications
• The Song of Horsa's Galley verse Publications
• The Tempter verse Publications
• Timur-Lang verse Publications
• Today verse Publications
• Which Will Scarcely Be Understood verse Publications
• Zukala's Hour verse Publications
• Zukala's Love Song verse Publications

15 contents entries

1. "Introduction" by Don Herron
2. "Howard's Fantasy" by Fritz Lieber
3. "Robert E. Howard: Frontiersman of Letters" by Donald Sydney-Fryer
4. "Barbarian Bard: The Poetry of Robert E. Howard" by Steve Eng
5. "Through Black Boughs: The Supernatural on Howard's Fiction" by Dennis Rickard
6. "The Western Fiction of Robert E. Howard" by Ben P. Indick
7. "Robert E. Howard: Hard-Boiled Heroic Fantasist" by George Knight
8. "Robert E. Howard: Professional Writer" by Glenn Lord
9. "The Dark Barbarian" by Don Herron
10. Appendix A: "Robert E. Howard's Library"
11. Appendix B: "Howard's Suicide"
12. Bibliography
13. Author and Subject Index
14. Title Index
15. Notes on the Contributors

Contributors

Don Herron

Introduction author