Weird Tales 1928 August
Popular Fiction Publishing Company
Publication date: August 1928
Introduction
"Red Shadows" was REH's first published Solomon Kane story (Howard's original title was "Solomon Kane"). It tells a tale of wide scope, one which takes place over many years and many countries. It's a tale of unrelenting dogged persistence as Kane spends years of his life seeking to avenge the death of a complete stranger.
Notes
Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 2
Canada price C$0.30.
Perfect bound, wraps. Page numbers do not include covers.
Page numbers run from 145 through 288.
The Baudelaire poems on page 261 are prose translations by Clark Ashton Smith and are grouped under the title "Three Poems in Prose".
The letters by Meek and Hendrickson from Joshi and Michaud's H. P. Lovecraft in "The Eyrie".
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Edition and production details
- Format
- Pulp
- Publication date
- August 1928
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher / imprint
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Cover art
- Curtis C. Senf
- Illustrations
- Se above
- Media details
- Girasol November 1927
1 linked Howard work
- Red Shadowsstory
60 contents entries
- "Red Shadows"
- Future Issues (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by uncredited 145 · essay
- Non-REH Content
- Black Mora • poem by A. Leslie148 • Black Mora • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 148 · artwork
- "Black Mora" by A. Leslie (poem)
- Red Shadows • [Solomon Kane] • novelette by Robert E. Howard 149 · novelette
- "You Can't Kill a Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
- Red Shadows • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 149 · artwork
- "Vulture Crag" by Everil Worrell
- Red Shadows [2] • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 157 · artwork
- "The Rose Widow" by Charlton Lawrence Edholm
- You Can't Kill a Ghost • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 165 · artwork
- "Crashing Suns" Part 1 of 2 by Edmond Hamilton
- You Can't Kill a Ghost • short story by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.] 165 · story
- "The Man in the Green Coat" by Eli Colter
- Vulture Crag • novelette by Everil Worrell 171 · novelette
- "Sonnets of the Midnight Hours" 5. The Grip of Evil Dream by Donald Wandrei
- Vulture Crag • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 171 · artwork
- "The Witches Sabbath" Part 2 of 2 by Stephen Bagby
- The Rose Window • short story by Charlton Lawrence Edholm 187 · story
- "Dirge" by Leavenworth Macnab (poem)
- The Rose Window • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 187 · artwork
- "The Vengeance of Nitocris" by Thomas Lanier Williams
- Weird Tales, August 1928 • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of Servants of Satan 1925) 192 · artwork
- Three Poems in Prose by Charles Baudelaire 1. L'Irreparable 2. Les Sept Vieillards 3. Une Charogne (translated by Clark Ashton Smith)
- Crashing Suns (Part 1 of 2) • [Interstellar Patrol • 1] • serial by Edmond Hamilton 193
- "Folks Used to Believe: Wonderfully Preserved Relics" by Alvin F. Harlow [article]
- Crashing Suns (Part 1 of 2) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 193 · artwork
- "The Justice of the Czar" by George Fielding Eliot
- The Man in the Green Coat • novelette by Eli Colter 215 · novelette
- "The Demoiselle D'Ys" by Robert W. Chambers [reprint]
- The Man in the Green Coat • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 215 · artwork
- The Eyrie (letter column)
- The Grip of Evil Dream • [Sonnets of the Midnight Hours • 5] • poem by Donald Wandrei 231 · poem
- Sonnets of the Midnight Hours • [Weird Tales Decorations] • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 231 · artwork
- The Witches' Sabbath (Part 2 of 2) • serial by Stephen Bagby 232
- The Witches' Sabbath (Part 2 of 2) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 232 · artwork
- Dirge • poem by Leavenworth Macnab 252 · poem
- The Vengeance of Nitocris • short story by Tennessee Williams [as by Thomas Lanier Williams] 253 · story
- The Vengeance of Nitocris • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 253 · artwork
- L'Irréparable • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of L'irréparable 1857) [as by Charles P. Baudelaire] 261 · poem
- Les Sept Vieillards • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Les sept vieillards 1861) [as by Charles P. Baudelaire] 261 · poem
- Une Charogne • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Une charogne 1857) [as by Charles P. Baudelaire] 262 · poem
- Wonderfully Preserved Relics • [Folks Used to Believe] • essay by Alvin F. Harlow 263 · essay
- Folks Used to Believe • (1927) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 263 · artwork
- The Justice of the Czar • non-genre • short story by George Fielding Eliot [as by Captain George Fielding Eliot] 264 · story
- The Demoiselle d'Ys • (1895) • short story by Robert W. Chambers 268 · story
- Weird Story Reprint • (1928) • interior artwork by Hugh Rankin 268 · artwork
- Weird Tales, August 1928 [2] • [Weird Tales Decorations] • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch (variant of The Green Scarab 1925) 277 · artwork
- The Eyrie • (1924) • interior artwork by Andrew Brosnatch 278 · artwork
- The Eyrie (Weird Tales, August 1928) • [The Eyrie] • essay by The Editor 278 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by William Russell Moore 278 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by N. J. O'Neail 279 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by William Randolph 279 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by Jerry Snow 279 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by Clara Espiritu 279 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by Veith Dall 279 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by J. W. Meek 280 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by Paul Hendrickson 280 · essay
- Letter (Weird Tales, August 1928) • essay by Jack Darrow 280 · essay
Contributors
- Curtis C. Senf
- Cover artist
- Hugh Rankin, Andrew Brosnatch
- Illustrator
- Se above
- Illustrator
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Bibliographic and editorial layers
Howard Works source layer
- Title
- Weird Tales Volume 12 Number 2
- Publisher
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Date
- August 1928
- Source file
- weirdtalesV12N2-August1928.html
REH World editorial layer
- Title
- Weird Tales 1928 August
- Publisher
- Popular Fiction Publishing Company
- Date
- August 1928