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The Dark Man and Others

Arkham House

Edition format
Hardcover

Publication date: 1963

Introduction

The Dark Man and Others is a posthumously-published anthology of fifteen short stories by American author Robert E. Howard, named after his short story "The Dark Man", and covering the genres of adventure fiction, horror, historical fiction, fantasy, sword and sorcery, weird fiction and the weird West. It was first published in 1963 by Arkham House, and was edited by August Derleth.

Eleven of the stories had previously been published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, and one each in Argosy, Oriental Stories and Strange Tales.

Notes

Introduction by August Derleth

No statement of printing or edition.
Colophon states that 2000 copies were printed. Actual number is 2029 copies per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House.
Derleth Thirty Years of Arkham House: 71.
Joshi Sixty Years of Arkham House: 71.
Jaffery The Arkham House Companion: 75.
Nielsen Arkham House Books: 75.

 

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Hardcover with dust jacket
Publication date
Arkham House
Pages
284
Cover art
Frank Utpatel
Illustrations
None

15 linked Howard works

31 contents entries

  1. "The Voice of El-Lil"
  2. "Pigeons From Hell"
  3. "The Dark Man"
  4. "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth"
  5. "People of the Dark"
  6. "The Children of the Night"
  7. "The Dead Remember"
  8. "The Man on the Ground"
  9. "The Hyena"
  10. "The Garden of Fear"
  11. "The Thing on the Roof"
  12. "Dig Me No Grave"
  13. "The Dream Snake"
  14. "In the Forest of Villefere"
  15. "Old Garfield's Heart"
  16. Introduction (The Dark Man and Others) • essay by August Derleth vii · introduction
  17. The Voice of El-Lil • (1930) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 3 · novelette
  18. Pigeons from Hell • (1938) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 32 · novelette
  19. The Dark Man • [Turlogh O'Brien] • (1931) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 68 · novelette
  20. The Gods of Bal-Sagoth • [Turlogh O'Brien] • (1931) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 99 · novelette
  21. People of the Dark • (1932) • short story by Robert E. Howard 144 · story
  22. The Children of the Night • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1931) • short story by Robert E. Howard 167 · story
  23. The Dead Remember • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 185 · story
  24. The Man on the Ground • (1933) • short story by Robert E. Howard 191 · story
  25. The Garden of Fear • [James Allison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 198 · novelette
  26. The Thing on the Roof • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1932) • short story by Robert E. Howard 217 · story
  27. The Hyena • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard 229 · story
  28. Dig Me No Grave • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1937) • short story by Robert E. Howard 244 · story
  29. The Dream Snake • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard 260 · story
  30. In the Forest of Villefère • [De Montour] • (1925) • short story by Robert E. Howard 268 · story
  31. Old Garfield's Heart • (1933) • short story by Robert E. Howard 273 · story

Contributors

August Derleth
Editor, Introduction author
Frank Utpatel
Cover artist

Additional related terms

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

Bran Mak MornJames AllisonRobert E. HowardTurlogh O'Brien
Source provenance

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