After completing the seven page first draft of “Rattle of Bones,” REH decided that the story needed another ending and he rewrote the last two pages of the typescript. The seven carbon copy pages of the first draft and the originals to the first version of pages 6 and 7 were archived.

This newsletter version appears as a text version accompanied by scans of the seven carbon copy first draft pages.

Contains several untitled typescripts. The untitled synopses and the note about Hernando de Guzman are copies of Howard typescripts. “The Silver Heel” synopsis is missing the first two pages.
“A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman” is a copy of Howard’s handwritten school theme paper. The untitled poem on page 15 is incomplete. The fragment on the back cover is a color copy of Howard’s typed draft, p. 15, that ends in a synopsis of the remainder of the story.

“While Smoke Rolled” is a facsimile of the Howard typescript of a draft of the story. This story has never been published in this, its original version. This version has Pike Bearfield as the hero; the published version has Breckinridge Elkins in his place. The back cover is a color copy of one of Howard’s onionskin carbons, with the text on the reverse side showing through (typed on both sides to save on paper costs).

The “Pigeons from Hell” draft is a facsimile of the Howard typescript. It is significantly shorter than the final story and does not have the element of revenge that is in the final version.
The list of ruler’s titles covers countries in the Near and Middle East.
The synopsis on the back cover is a color facsimile of the Howard typescript.

“The Cairn on the Headland” draft is a facsimile of Howard’s typescript, free of modifications made to the published story by Strange Tales editor Harry Bates.
The untitled story is a facsimile of a Howard typescript describing an imaginary boxing match.
The two poems on the back cover are a facsimile copy of a handwritten single sheet of paper.

“The Dwellers under the Tombs, Draft A” is a facsimile of Howard’s typescript, the earlier and shorter of two drafts that survive.
The map is imbedded in a facsimile of a typed page (p. 156) of “The Hour of the Dragon”.
The letter to Smith is a facsimile of the handwritten letter, with drawings imbedded.

“The Black Stone (Early Draft)” is a facsimile of a Howard typescript, with a pair of handwritten comments by the author.

“The Ballad of King Geraint” and “Zukala’s Mating Song” are slightly different from the version published in The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard.
The remainder of the content items are facsimile copies of Howard typescripts.
“The Guise of Youth” and “Roads” were originally published as two separate poems, but are likely a single poem.
As a young man, Howard contributed to The Junto, a circulating publication written by a group of his friends and himself. During circulation, the group would write comments about the content, which was then typed up and distributed with the following issue of The Junto. “The Commentary” collects such comments made by Howard, edited by Rob Roehm.

The synopsis of “The Silver Heel” here is longer (more complete) than the one published in the Fall 2007 issue. It is a facsimile of a Howard typescript from the Otis Adelbert Kline Agency files. An incomplete untitled synopsis also exists.

“Scotchogram” is an incomplete list.

The “Alleys of Peril” synopsis features “Sailor Steve O’Brien”, whereas the story features Sailor Steve Costigan.
The untitled poem is a color facsimile copy of a Howard typescript.

“Sailor Costigan / Dorgan and the Jade Monkey” is a facsimile copy of a Howard typescript, written originally featuring Steve Costigan, but with the name changed to Dennis Dorgan by Howard’s agency.
“A South Sea Storm” is a facsimile of an incomplete handwritten story Howard wrote in high school.
“Stories Written Complete” is a facsimile of a Howard typescript that lists stories Howard submitted between April or May 1929 and December of that year.

“Age”, “Your Money or Your Life” and “Hate’s Dawn” are facsimile copies of pages from The Junto, the circulating journal written by Howard and his friends.
The letter to Emil Petaja and “The Voice of Doom” are copies of Howard typescripts.
The Larry D. Thomas essay was the speech he presented as guest-of-honor at the 2009 Howard Days banquet, June 13 in Cross Plains, TX.
“West Is West” is a facsimile of Howard’s handwritten high school paper.

“Untitled ‘Knute Hansen'” is a list of boxers and their best punches.
“The Coming of El Borak” is unfinished.
Each of the Howard pieces are facsimile copies of his typescripts.

The Howard materials (except for the back cover) are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
The date on the Howard letter to H. P. Lovecraft is handwritten by Lovecraft.
The fragment on the back cover is a facsimile of a handwritten sheet; the top of the page was a school quiz, but Howard didn’t waste paper and used the bottom for a story fragment.

The Howard materials are facsimile copies of Howard typescripts.
The C. L. Moore letter to Howard is also a facsimile copy of a typescript.
“The Flavor of the Dance” is a photo of C. L. Moore taken in the 1930’s.
The check on the back cover is payment for “Vulture’s Sanctuary” and is endorsed by I. M. Howard.

“Letter of a Chinese Student” (1) and (2) are facsimile and retyped copies of articles from The Yellow Jacket, the newspaper of Howard Payne College. “Private Magrath of the A. E. F.” is a facsimile copy from the same newspaper.
“The Shadow in the Well”, “The Ghost in the Doorway” and “The Adventurer” are facsimile copies of Howard typescripts.
The cover for “Sailor Dorgan and the Jade Cobra” is from the Kline agency used in marketing the Howard story.

The Howard materials are facsimile copies of his typescripts.
The letter from Novalyne Price is from the “Cross Plains Review”, a local newspaper.

“The Castle of the Devil” is a facsimile of a Howard typescript. First apperance here.
The facsimile on the back cover is from a Howard textbook with notes written on it by him.

The letter to Clyde Smith was a gag summons sent by Howard.
The view of Main Street in Cross Plains, Texas is on a post card.
“Nekht Semerkeht” is a facsimile of a Howard typescript. First apperance here.
The book inscription shown on the back cover is from a book that is part of the Robert E. Howard Memorial Collection, Howard Payne University, Brownwood, TX.

Images out of the Sky is an anthology of poetry prepared by Tevis Clyde Smith, Robert E. Howard, and Lenore Preece. The Christopher Publishing House was interested in publishing the anthology, but wanted the authors to help pay the costs of production. The offer was declined. This issue contains the typescripts of the REH portion of the anthology.

The poems that follow the title page are facsimile copies of Howard’s contributed typescripts.
The letter to Clyde Smith accompanied the return of the Images Out of the Sky poetry from the publisher.
Images on the covers are facsimiles of the front and back of the envelope that the letter to Clyde Smith and the pages from Images Out of the Sky were shipped in.

The letter on p. 3 is a facsimile of a typescript; the letters on pp. 4, 10 and 16 are facsimiles of hand-written documents followed by transcripts of those documents.
The obituary on the back cover is a facsimile from The Ranger Daily Times, Ranger, TX.

“The Door to the Garden” and “A Rattlesnake Sings in the Grass” are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
The illustrations in “Howard the Pirate” are photographs of Howard and his neighbor Leroy Butler sword fighting while Leroy’s sister Faustine referees (a third photo is on the front cover).

“Brachan the Kelt” and “Typing Practice” are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
“The Stralsund” is a facsimile of a handwritten sheet, including doodles.
“The Value of Athletics to the School” is a facsimile of a handwritten Howard ninth grade essay, with teacher comments.

“Brachan the Kelt” and “Typing Practice” are facsimiles of Howard typescripts.
“The Stralsund” is a facsimile of a handwritten sheet, including doodles.
“The Value of Athletics to the School” is a facsimile of a handwritten Howard ninth grade essay, with teacher comments.

Howard’s items are facsimile copies of typescripts, except for the postcard.
“The Lion of Tiberias” fragment contains the initial pages of Howard’s first submission to Oriental Stories, which he later rewrote at the behest of Farnsworth Wright in the letter on p. 4.

Howard’s items are facsimile copies of typescripts, except for the First appearance:
Untitled draft (“The Haunted Mountain”)
Undated letter (unfinished, unsent)
“Baal” (Complete version)postcard.
“The Lion of Tiberias” fragment contains the initial pages of Howard’s first submission to Oriental Stories, which he later rewrote at the behest of Farnsworth Wright in the letter on p. 4.

Howard’s items are facsimile copies of typescripts, except for the First appearance:
Untitled draft (“The Haunted Mountain”)
Undated letter (unfinished, unsent)
“Baal” (Complete version)postcard.
“The Lion of Tiberias” fragment contains the initial pages of Howard’s first submission to Oriental Stories, which he later rewrote at the behest of Farnsworth Wright in the letter on p. 4.

First appearance:
“The Man on the Ground” (draft)
Untitled Synopsis: “The Black Hound of Death”
To an unknown recipient, unmailed, “Salaam: I’m writing mainly to find out about . . .”
Notes: “The House of Arabu”

First appearance:
Untitled ” ‘You,’ said Shifty Griddle . . .”
Aphorism” “The girl that is a beauty”
“A Thunder of Trumpets” (Draft A)
“Library”

Cover is a photo of Robert E. Howard from the papers of August Derleth. It also appeared in the 1944 Arkham House collection Marginalia by H. P. Lovecraft.
The back cover drawing is from the back of a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa July 1928 (“Salaam: A Warning to Orthodoxy…”). It also appears in The Howard Collector #19.
“Old Man Jacobson” is a fragment, never before published.

Cover is facsimile of a postcard from Robert E. Howard to Thurston Torbett dated April 28, 1936.
Items authored by Robert E. Howard are facsimiles of typescripts.
“The Fangs of the Yellow Cobra” is the earliest complete draft of the story “The Yellow Cobra”.

Cover photo is Harold Preece, a close friend of Howard, from the scrapbook of Lenore Preece.
Items authored by Robert E. Howard are facsimiles of typescripts.
Howard did not waste paper; the two pages of poems have text typed in the margins.

Howard items are facsimiles of typescripts, except for “The Nut’s Shell”, which is a facsimile of a hand-written manuscript, plus a typed copy.
The two poetry variants are typing practice by Howard.

Front cover illustration is the cover of The Poet’s Scroll for April 1929. This was a very limited circulation poetry magazine, published by Estil Alexander Townsend in Howe, OK, that featured a poem by Howard.
Items authored by Howard are typescripts, except for “Adventure in Arabia” and “Far in Gloomy Northland” which are hand-written.

Published to be available at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, TX.
Cover shows the front and back of an index card from the files at Greenleaf Cemetery pertaining to the Howard family grave plots.
Howard stories and poems are facsimiles of typescripts.

Howard stories and poems, except of “What I Did in Vacation”, are facsimiles of typescripts. “What I Did in Vacation” is a facsimile of a hand-written school report.
Cover is a photo of Leroy and Faustine Butler with REH.

The Howard story, poem and essay are facsimiles of typescripts.
Cover photo shows the Butler house, with the Howard house in the background.

The Howard stories and poem are facsimiles of typescripts. The essay is a facsimile of a hand-written paper.
Cover photo shows Leroy Butler with REH.

Cover photo is part of a photo shown on p. 2.
Howard stories and poems are copies of typescripts.

The Garden of Fear, a James Allison story. Essay of the ‘Holy Gent’, Howards novel published shortly after his death and so hard to find copies of.

Howard stories and poems are copies of typescripts.
Cover photo is uncredited photo of Hester Howard and an unidentified cousin.
The letters between Glenn Lord and Alla Ray Kuykendall deal with finding a copy of A Gent from Bear Creek published by Herbert Jenkins so that Donald M. Grant can photocopy it for publication.

Howard stories and letters are copies of typescripts.
Cover photo is of Truett Vinson and Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr. mock-boxing.
Page 3 is a single page from an otherwise missing undated letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Jr.
“News and Events” discusses the 2017 World Fantasy Convention in San Antonio, TX, the upcoming 2018

Cover photo shows Robert E. Howard and his friends Lindsey Tyson and Tevis Clyde Smith, property of the Tyson family.
The Howard story is a copy of a typescript.
The poster on the back cover is not credited, but is signed.

Part 2 of The Road of Eagles. The Howard story is a copy of a typescript.
“News and Events” discusses Howard Days 2018.

Cover is a photo of Hester Jane Ervin Howard (Robert E. Howard’s mother) and Patch, Howard’s dog.
Gates of Empire part 1 of 2.

Cover is a photo of young Robert Howard in the snow.
The Howard material are copies of typescripts.
Untitled (“500 Torguts”) are notes on the battle waged by the Mongol khan Galdan Boshugtu against the Turkestanis.

The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. Typescript. Part 1 of 2.
Cover is a photo of the Howard House in the late 1960s or early 1970s, before it was acquired and repaired by Project Pride.

The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. Typescript. Part 2 of 2. Recompense, poem by Howard.
Map from ‘Beyond the Black River’.

Black Colossus part 1 of 2. Including a synopsis.

Black Colossus part 2 of 2. Including a synopsis.
The poem ‘All Hallows Eve’, both published and unpublished versions.

Contains several poems by Robert E. Howard and a short story about sailor Costigan (Dennis Dorgan). The story is the ‘Jade Monkey’.

By this Axe I Rule! Kull of Valusia.
Front cover, back cover and inside back cover are photos of the refurbished Howard House in Cross Plains, TX.

Several poems by Howard and ‘The Devil in Iron’ part 1 of 2. Map of the Hoodoo Room by Howard.

Several poems by Howard and ‘The Devil in Iron’ part 1 of 2. Map of the Hoodoo Room by Howard.

Number 1, volume 15 – spring 2021. Contains several synopsis and what appears to be the carbon copy of Howard’s final typescript ‘Cupid from Bear Creek’, first published in Action Stories, August 1935.

Number 2, volume 15 – summer 2021. Contains ‘The Peaceful Pilgrim’, a supposedly earlier version of ‘Cupid from from Bear Creek’, a Breckinridge Elkins story. The typescript is a carbon of the second draft of “Pilgrim”. Also news and a report from the 2021 Howard Days by Bill Cavalier.

Number 3, volume 15 – fall 2021. Contains two typescripts of ‘The Fire of Asshurbanipal’, the non-fantastic version and the version with the fantastic ending. Also a letter from the board and the 2022 REH Foundation awards. The Fire of Asshurbanipal was published in Weird Tales January 1936.

Number 4, volume 15 – winter 2021/2022. Contains the typescript ‘Hawks of Outremer’ featuring the Irish crusader Cormac FitzGeoffrey. Also a handwritten manuscript of the play ‘Bran Mak Morn’, and the verse ‘The Road to Yesterday.

The cover is from Oriental Stories, spring, 1931. The artist was Donald von Gelb.

The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Number 1, volume 16 – Spring 2022. Contains the synopsis of The Vultures of Whapeton and part 1 of 3 of The Vultures of Wahpeton typescript..

The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Number 2, volume 16 – Summer 2022. Contains The Vultures of Whapeton part 2 of 3 of The Vultures of Wahpeton typescript. It also contains a letter to H.P. Lovecraft marked as received November 9, 1931.

The cover is from Smashing Novels Magazine for December 1936 with artwork by Howard Sherman.

The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Number 3, volume 16 – Fall 2022. Contains The Vultures of Whapeton part 3 of 3 of The Vultures of Wahpeton typescript. Also included is a copy of the handwritten verse ‘The Sword of Lal Singh’, the usual News & Events and a typescript of a letter to Emil Petaja from February 15, 1936. Rob Roehm explains how The Robert E. Howard Foundation got hold of it.

The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Number 4, volume 16 – Winter 2022/23. Contains the typescript of The Iron Shadows in the Moon (part 1 of 2). It also contains the draft A and draft B of The Hyborian Age. The cover is of another Jenkins Gent which was sold to Jason Germany, and two letters to Wilfred B. Talman that recently appeared. One of the letters can be viewed here. 

It also has a first appearance of “List of Hyborian Names, Places, and Locations”.

The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Number 1, volume 17 – Spring 2023. Contains the typescript of The Iron Shadows in the Moon (part 2 of 2). It also contains a typescript of a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa March 1930. The letter contains 4 poems (‘The Autumn of the World’, ‘A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans’, ‘Aw Come On and Fight’ and ‘The Songe of the Sage’.

In the news and event section, we get a report from the 2023 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards. And finally Paul Herman’s story about Howard’s writing desk and how he acquired it.

Dive into the newest newsletter from the Robert E. Howard Foundation, offering a wealth of exclusive content. This issue brings you a “Letter from the Board,” the first draft typescript of “The Blue Flame of Death,” and a riveting series of poems titled “Sonnets Out of Bedlam,” among other News & Events. A must-read for any Howard aficionado!

Dive into the newest newsletter from the Robert E. Howard Foundation, offering a wealth of exclusive content. This issue brings you a “Letter from the Board,” a typescript of “Blades of the Brotherhood”, and more.

The newsletter opens with a cover feature about a Christmas card from Robert E. Howard, sent to Clark Ashton Smith on December 30, 1933. It details the publication journey of Howard’s first Conan story, “The Phoenix on the Sword,” emphasizing its origins as a rewrite of an unpublished Kull story, “By This Axe I Rule!”.

The newsletter contains the first known typescript of Worms of the Earth. It also has a letter (typescript) from Howard to H.P. Lovecraft from circa January 1931. At the end, there is a summary of the Robert E. Howard Days 2024 with a list of all the winners of the REH Awards.