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The Vultures: Showdown at Hell's Canyon

Fictioneer Books

Edition format
Contains

Publication date: 1973 (first) | 1975 (second)

Introduction

The Vultures of Waheton was originally published with two different endings in the December 1936 issue of Smashing Novels Magazine under the title “The Vultures of Whapeton.” It was preceded by the following note from the editor, Cliff Campbell:
Of course, giving a story two endings is sort of unorthodox. But Smashing Novels, ever since its first issue, hasn’t been a particularly orthodox magazine. We’ve tried, and we are trying, to give you different stories with different slants, and we’ve been doing our darndest to give you the best stories possible.
 

Notes

Jacket, cover and spine list the title only as “The Vultures”.
Seven interior black & white illustrations.

First printing limited to 1,100 copies.
The second edition print run was approximately 1/3 that of the first edition.
The dust jacket of the second edition has a quarter inch white strip at the top and bottom of the front of the jacket. The first edition has the art all the way to the edge of the jacket.
The first edition has black cloth whereas the second edition has burgandy cloth.
Second edition features illustrated endpapers by Stephen Fabian.

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Hardcover with dust jacket (5.75 x 8.5 inches)
Publication date
1973 (first) | 1975 (second)
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0877071152
Pages
190
Publisher / imprint
Fictioneer Books
Cover art
Stephen Fabian
Illustrations
Stephen Fabian

3 linked Howard works

7 contents entries

  1. "The Vultures"
  2. The Vultures: Showdown at Hell's Canyon • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian artwork
  3. "Showdown at Hell's Canyon"
  4. The Vultures • non-genre • novella by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Vultures of Wahpeton 1936) 9 · novelette
  5. "Afterword" by Glenn Lord
  6. Afterword (The Vultures of Wahpeton) • non-genre • essay by Glenn Lord 133 · essay
  7. Showdown at Hell's Canyon • non-genre • novelette by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Judgment of the Desert) 139 · novelette

Contributors

Glenn Lord
Afterword author
Stephen Fabian
Cover artist, Illustrator

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Bibliographic and editorial layers

Bibliographic source layer

Title
The Vultures
Publisher
Fictioneer Books
Date
1973 1975 (Second edition)
Source file
vulturef.htm

REH World editorial layer

Title
The Vultures: Showdown at Hell's Canyon
Publisher
Fictioneer Books
Date
1973 (first) | 1975 (second)
Source provenance

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