The Hardboiled Manuscripts, Volume 1

Introduction

Notes

Edition and production details

Language

English

37 contents entries

1. Acknowledgments v · Front matter
2. A Field He Detested xi · Foreword · Ståle Gismervik
3. On Editing Robert E. Howard: A Note on Language, Style, and Fidelity xix · Editorial essay · Ståle Gismervik
4. Lord of the Dead — editorial notes 3 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
5. Lord of the Dead — synopsis 5 · Synopsis
6. Lord of the Dead — draft 1 7 · Draft · Untitled; complete
7. Lord of the Dead — draft 2 29 · Draft · Untitled; incomplete: first page missing
8. Lord of the Dead — draft 3 61 · Draft · Titled; complete
9. The Mystery at Tannernoe Lodge — editorial notes 99 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
10. The Mystery at Tannernoe Lodge — draft 1 101 · Draft · Untitled; unfinished; eight-page surviving typescript
11. The Teeth of Doom — editorial notes 111 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
12. The Teeth of Doom — synopsis 113 · Synopsis
13. The Teeth of Doom — draft 1 115 · Draft · Untitled; complete
14. The Teeth of Doom — draft 2 131 · Draft · Untitled; complete
15. The Teeth of Doom — draft 3 151 · Draft · Untitled; missing manuscript page restored from Strange Detective Stories and identified in reading text
16. The Black Moon — editorial notes 177 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
17. The Black Moon — draft 1 179 · Draft · Untitled; complete
18. The Black Moon — draft 2 193 · Draft · Titled; complete
19. The Voice of Death — editorial notes 211 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
20. The Voice of Death — draft 1 213 · Draft · Untitled; incomplete: first three pages missing
21. The Voice of Death — draft 2 221 · Draft · Untitled; incomplete
22. The Voice of Death — draft 2 false start 227 · False start · Separate textual entry
23. The Voice of Death — draft 3 229 · Draft · Untitled; complete
24. The Voice of Death — draft 4 243 · Draft · Untitled; complete carbon
25. The Voice of Death — draft 5 259 · Draft · Titled; complete; bylined
26. People of the Serpent — editorial notes 277 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
27. People of the Serpent — draft 1 279 · Draft · Untitled; incomplete
28. People of the Serpent — draft 2 303 · Draft · Untitled; complete
29. People of the Serpent — draft 3 331 · Draft · Untitled; complete
30. The House of Suspicion — editorial notes 361 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
31. The House of Suspicion — draft 1 363 · Draft · Untitled; complete
32. The House of Suspicion — draft 2 383 · Draft · Untitled; complete
33. The House of Suspicion — draft 3 409 · Draft · Titled; complete
34. The Names in the Black Book — editorial notes 439 · Editorial notes · Ståle Gismervik
35. The Names in the Black Book — draft 1 441 · Draft · Untitled; complete
36. The Names in the Black Book — draft 2 481 · Draft · Untitled; complete
37. The Names in the Black Book — draft 3 521 · Draft · Titled; missing manuscript page 28 restored from the pulp text. DUPE scans are a second record of the same physical typescript.

Contributors

Robert E. Howard

Author

Ståle Gismervik

Compiler and transcriber; foreword and editorial notes

Mark Wheatley

Frontispiece illustrator

Characters / Featuring

Subjects and genres