A list of all payments Howard received for the sale of his stories. You can sort by date published or the amount of income. By default it’s sorted by publication date.
140 entries
| In the Forest of Villefère | In the Forest of Villefère was first published in Weird Tales in August 1925. The four-page story follows de Montour through a supposedly haunted forest, where he meets an unusual traveling companion. Howard received $8 for it; that payment is… | Carolus le Loup, de Montour | $8 | 1925 |
| Spear and Fang | Spear and Fang was first published in Weird Tales in July 1925. After years of rejection slips, Howard sold the caveman story for $16; it centers on conflict between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals and was his first professional fiction sale.In a… | A-æa, Ga-nor, Ka-nanu | $16 | 1925 |
| Wolfshead | Wolfshead is the title of a short story about lycanthropy by Howard, first published in the April 1926 issue of Weird Tales. The title was also used for a posthumously-published collection of seven novelettes by the same author, named after… | Baron von Schiller, Carlos, de Montour, Dom Vincente da Lusto, Don Florenzo de Seville, Gola, Jean Desmarte, King Solomon, Luigi Verenza, Marcita, Pierre, Ysabel | $50 | 1926 |
| The Lost Race | The Lost Race belongs to the Bran Mak Morn cycle, although Bran does not appear in the story. Written in 1924, it was sold to Weird Tales for $30, returned for revision, and finally published in January 1927.Howard later discussed… | Berula, Buruc the Cruel, Cororuc | $30 | 1927 |
| The Dream Snake | The Dream Snake, first published in Weird Tales in February 1928, concerns a man haunted by a recurring dream in which an unseen giant snake draws closer each night. The story may have been based on a dream of Howard’s… | Faming | $20 | 1928 |
| Drums of the Sunset | “Drums of the Sunset” was serialized in the Cross Plains Review from November 6, 1928 through January 4, 1929. Howard received $20 for the serialization.The reconstructed text combines different surviving sources. Chapter 1 and the first five paragraphs of Chapter… | Allison, Bill Hansen, Gila Murken, Hard Luck Harper, Joan Farrel, Mark Edwards, Steve Harmer | $20 | 1928 |
| The Hyena | The Hyena is an early horror story set in East Africa. Howard wrote and sold it by late 1924, probably between December 1 and 17, but it did not appear in Weird Tales until March 1928. Howard received $25 for… | Steve, Senecoza, Ludtvik Strolvaus, Ellen Farel | $25 | 1928 |
| Red Shadows | “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 in many countries. It’s a tale of unrelenting dogged persistence… | Gulka, Jean, Juan, King Songa, La Costa, La Mon, Le Loup, Solomon Kane, the Black God, the gorilla that kills Gulka, the Rat, the she-gorilla slain by Gulka | $80 | 1928 |
| Sea Curse | Written and sold in 1928, “Sea Curse” earned Robert E. Howard $17 from Weird Tales (May 1928). In a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (Letter #101), Howard listed the piece as “Sea-Curse” and described it with the succinct note: action… | Joe, John Kulrek, Lie-lip Canool, Moll Farrell | $17 | 1928 |
| Crowd-Horror | "Crowd Horror" is set against the backdrop of professional boxing, illustrating the dramatic and emotional journey of Slade Costigan, a gifted but troubled boxer, whose career is profoundly affected by his psychological struggles, particularly his reaction to the crowd's influence.… | Ace Banning, Battling Harrigan, Battling Nelson, Brown Ghost of Atlanta, Buffalo Gonzalez, Flynn, Gene Tunney, Gloria, Jack Dempsey, Jack Root, James J. Corbett, James J. Jeffries, Joe Goddard, Joe Grim, Joe Handler, John L. Sullivan, Johnny Hilan, Johnny Varella, Mike Boden, Sailor Sloan, Slade Costigan, Stanley Ketchel, Steve Harmer, Terry McGovern, Tom Heeney, Tom Sharkey, Tommy Hansen, Young Firpo, Young Griffo | $100 | 1929 |
| The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune | The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune is a Kull story first published in Weird Tales in September 1929. It was one of only three Kull stories published during Howard’s lifetime. Howard submitted it to Weird Tales in 1927, and it was… | Brule the Spear-slayer, Ka-nu, Kaanuub, Kull, the Elder Race court girl, Tuzun Thune, Valka | $20 | 1929 |
| The Pit of the Serpent | Published under the name Mark Adam. First published in Fight Stories volume 5, number 5, Fall 1937. See the original publication in Fight Stories Volume 2, number 2 as "The Pit of the Serpent". | Bat Slade, Blue Whale, Boatswain Hagney, Dauntless, Flat-Face O’Toole, Juan, Leviathan, Mike Leary, Mushy Hansen, Old Man, One-Round Grannigan, Raquel La Costa, Sailor Handler, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, Swede Hjonning, the dip, the Oily Bird, Young Griffo | $90 | 1929 |
| Rattle of Bones | First published in Weird Tales, June 1929. It was submitted in 1928. Howard got $20 for the story. In Germany, Kane meets a traveler named Gaston L’Armon, who seems familiar to Kane, and together they take rooms in the Cleft… | Gaston l'Armon, Solomon Kane, the innkeeper of the Cleft Skull Tavern, the Russian sorcerer's skeleton | $20 | 1929 |
| The Shadow Kingdom | The Shadow Kingdom is the first Kull story and is set in Howard’s Thurian Age. Howard completed an early form in the summer of 1927, rewrote it later that summer, and sold the story that September for $100, payable on… | Brule the Spear-slayer, Eallal, Ka-nu, Kaanuub, Kull, Lion-fang, Tu, Valka | $100 | 1929 |
| Skull-Face | "Skull-Face" unfolds within the grim and shadowy realms of opium dreams and ancient secrets. Written by Robert E. Howard and published as a serial in the pages of Weird Tales, beginning in October 1929, and ending in December 1929. The… | Ahmed Shah, Baron Rokoff, Finnegan, Ganra Singh, Hansen, Hassim, John Gordon, Kamonos, Kathulos of Egypt, Leary, Li Kung, Major Fairlan Morley, Murken, Professor Ezra Schuyler, Santiago, Sir Haldred Frenton, Stephen Costigan, Von Lorfmon, Yar Khan, Yun Shatu, Yussef Ali, Zuleika | $300 | 1929 |
| Skulls in the Stars | Skulls in the Stars. First published in Weird Tales, January 1929. Howard got $30 for this story. It was also submitted to Argosy-Allstory. In England, Kane is on his way to the hamlet of Torkertown, and must choose one of… | Ezra, Gideon, Satan, Solomon Kane | $30 | 1929 |
| The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux | There exist two typescripts for this story. The first corresponds to the final version submitted to Fight Stories and ARGOSY. It is written in the third person and the ghostly elements are less marked. Ghost Stories bought this story for… | Ace Jessel, John Taverel, Mankiller Gomez, Maul Finnegan, Tom Cribb, Tom Molyneaux | $95 | 1929 |
| The Bull Dog Breed | The Bull Dog Breed is a thrilling short story of resilience, camaraderie, and the unbreakable bond between a man and his dog. Set against the gritty backdrop of the South Seas, the story follows Sailor Steve Costigan, a member of… | Bill O’Brien, Jack Dempsey, Joe Grim, Mike, Mike Costigan, Mushy Hansen, Olaf Larsen, Old Man, Penrhyn, Red O’Donnell, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, the gray wolfdog, Tiger Valois, Tom Roche | $90 | 1930 |
| Champ of the Forecastle | "The Champion of the Forecastle" is a rousing tale of rivalry, honor, and the unexpected turns of friendship set against the gritty backdrop of a seafaring life. Steve Costigan, our steadfast protagonist, finds himself once again embroiled in a confrontation… | Steve Costigan, Sven Larson, Bill O’Brien, Mushy Hansen, Mike, Segrida, Olaf Ericson, Knut, Fritz, Sea Girl | $65 | 1930 |
| Fist and Fang | Published under the pseudonym Mark Adam. See the original title, "Fist and Fang" for more information. | Abie Hussenstein, Battling Santos, Bill O’Brien, Firpo, Joe Handler, Kid Allison, MacGregor, Mike, Old Man, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, Togo, Tom York | $100 | 1930 |
| The Hills of the Dead | The Hills of the Dead, a Solomon Kane story, was published in Weird Tales in August 1930, for which Howard received $70. In Africa, Kane again encounters N’Longa, the witch doctor introduced in Red Shadows, who gives him the protective… | Kran, N'Longa, Satan, Solomon Kane, the lion that attacks Zunna, the snake-like being in the grass, Zunna, Zunna's mother | $70 | 1930 |
| The Iron Man | The magazine version published as The Iron Man in Fight Stories in June 1930 is substantially shorter than Howard’s longer text Iron Men, by about 10,000 words. Howard received $200 for the story.The story follows heavyweight boxer Mike Brennon through… | Mike Brennon, Steve Amber, Spike Ganlon, Young Firpo, Iron Mike Costigan | $200 | 1930 |
| Kings of the Night | Kings of the Night (first published in Weird Tales, November 1930). It was submitted to Strange Stories, but Farnsworth Wright accepted it for Weird Tales. The first story to feature Bran as a king and describes him as a direct… | Bocah, Bran Mak Morn, Brule the Spear-slayer, Cormac of Connacht, Dark God of Shadows, Domnail, Gonar, Gron, Julius Caesar, Kull, Marcus Sulius, Rognar, Strongbow, Wulfhere | $120 | 1930 |
| The Moon of Skulls | The Moon of Skulls is a Solomon Kane story set in Africa. Howard first sent it to Jungle Stories; Macfadden Publications returned the manuscript on August 15, 1929, explaining that the magazine had been transferred to another publisher. The story… | El Gar, Golgor, Honen, Hotah, Lilith, Lord Hildred Taferal, Marylin, Nakari, Nakari's father, Nakura, Sir John Taferal, Solomon Kane, the last Atlantean high priest, Valka | $200 | 1930 |
| Sailor’s Grudge | First published in Fight Stories volume 2 number 10 March 1930 as 'Sailor's Grudge'. It was published again in Fight Stories volume 5 number 7 in 1938 under the name Mark Adam and with the changed title. | Bert, Bob Fitzsimmons, Honey Precious, Hornswoggle, Marjory Harper, Mike, Reginald Van Veer, Sea Girl, Spike Monahan, Steve Costigan, Terry O’Rourke, the director, Tommy Marks | $75 | 1930 |
| The Touch of Death | Old Adam Farrel lay dead in the house wherein he had lived alone for the last twenty years. A silent, churlish recluse, in his life he had known no friends, and only two men had watched his passing… little did… | Adam Farrel, Dr. Stein, Falred | $18 | 1930 |
| The Voice of El-lil | Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin is a title associated in the legacy catalogue with The Voice of El-lil. | Akbar, Asshurbanipal, Bill Kirby, Cerdic, Cyrus the Persian, Enlil, Gorat, Hengist, Hereward, John Conrad, Naluna, Sargon of Akkad, Selim, Soga-goroth, Yotai Lao | $90 | 1930 |
| Waterfront Fists | Stand Up and Slug! First published under the original title Waterfront Fists in Fight Stories September 1930. It was published again in Fight Stories Volume 6 in number 4, Summer of 1940 but then under the name, Mark Adam, and… | Abe Gold, Bill O’Brien, Gloria Flynn, Jack Dempsey, Joe Cromwell, Mike, Mushy Hansen, Red Roach, Ruffian, Salana, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, Sven Larson, Tony Andrada | $90 | 1930 |
| Winner Take All | Sucker! First published in Fight Stories volume 6 number 2 Winter 1939-1940. Published under the name Mark Adam. Originally published as Winner Take All in Fight Stories Volume 3 number 2, July 1930. | Bill O’Brien, Heinie Steinman, Jerry Rourke, Joan Wells, Mike, Panther Cortez, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, To Ying, Water Snake | $80 | 1930 |
| Alleys of Peril | Alleys of Peril is a Steve Costigan boxing story first published in the January 1931 issue of Fight Stories. Howard developed it from an earlier Mike O’Brien form after a rejection, and the catalogue records $80.00 in income. A later… | Bill O’Brien, Cap’n Branner, Cap’n Branner’s police dog, Castleton, Jack Ridley, Mike, Mike Brennon, Old Man, Red McCoy, Sea Girl, Smoky, Snake, Squint-Eye, Steve Costigan, the Cockney, the Dutchman, To Yan, Water Snake, Whale, White Tigress, Wladek | $80 | 1931 |
| The Black Stone | “The Black Stone” is a horror short story first published in Weird Tales, November 1931. Howard’s records note payment as $56 (sold for $64). The tale inaugurates two key Mythos touchstones in Howard’s fiction: the mad poet Justin Geoffrey and… | Alexis Ladeau, Attila, Count Boris Vladinoff, Dostmann, Justin Geoffrey, Muhammad, Selim Bahadur, Suleyman the Magnificent, Von Junzt | $56 | 1931 |
| The Blood of Belshazzar | The Blood of Belshazzar is a story in the Cormac Fitzgeoffrey series about a knight fighting in the Crusades. Cormac Fitzgeoffrey only appears in two of these tales: Hawks of Outremer and The Blood of Belshazzar, both written in 1931.… | Alexander the Great, Belshazzar, Cormac FitzGeoffrey, Cyrus the Persian, Darius, Erlik, Jacob, Justus Zehor, Kadra Muhammad, Kai Shah, Kojar Mirza, Musa bin Daoud, Nadir Tous, Naka, Queen Tomyris, Shalmar Khor, Skol Abdhur, Tisolino di Strozza, Toghrul Khan, Xerxes, Yussef el Mekru | $115 | 1931 |
| Breed of Battle | "Breed of Battle" is a tale of loyalty, honor, and the fierce bonds between a man and his dog, set against the backdrop of the rough-and-tumble world of early 20th-century Singapore's waterfront. Sailor Steve Costigan, a seaman known for his… | Steve Costigan, Mike, Porkey Straus, Joe Ritchie, Terror, Philip D’Arcy, Johnnie Blinn, Grieson ("Limey"), Fritz Steinmann, Sea Girl | $80 | 1931 |
| The Children of the Night | The Children of the Night was accepted by Weird Tales circa October 1930 and published in the April/May 1931 issue; Howard received $60. The story reflects ideas Howard discussed with H. P. Lovecraft concerning witch-cults and the “little people,” themes… | Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Aryara, Bran Mak Morn, Canute, Charles Robert Maturin, Clemants, Cthulhu, Edgar Allan Poe, Flinders Petrie, Franz Boas, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gol-goroth, Horace Walpole, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Il-marinen, James Elroy Flecker, John Conrad, John O’Donnel, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Ketrick, Kirowan, Marquis of Grosse, Professor Hendrik Brooler, Taverel, Tsathoggua, Von Junzt, Yog-Sothoth | $60 | 1931 |
| Circus Fists | “Circus Fists” is a Steve Costigan story. Howard sent it to Fiction House on July 22, 1931; it was accepted and published in Fight Stories in December 1931. Howard received $70 for the story. | Ace Brelen, Amir, Battling Bingo, Bill Cairn, Bill O’Brien, Flash Larney, Honest Jim Donovan, Jack Lynch, Joe Beemer, Maxie Heimer, Mike, Monagan, Mushy Hansen, Old Man, Oswald, Red O’Donnell, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, Sultan, Sven Larson, Tony Vitello | $70 | 1931 |
| The Dark Man | The Dark Man (first published in Weird Tales, December 1931) - Turlogh tries to rescues the daughter of King Brian Boru from a tribe of Vikings. This story features a cameo of another Howard character, Bran Mak Morn. It was… | Athelstane the Saxon, Bran Mak Morn, Brian Boru, Brogar, Cormac O’Brien, Dermod, Gonar, Grok, Halfgar, Jerome, Moira, Murtagh na Kilbaha, Osric, Oswick, Sweyn, Thor, Thorfel the Fair, Tostig, Turlogh Dubh O'Brien | $85 | 1931 |
| The Footfalls Within | The Footfalls Within is a Solomon Kane story in which Kane encounters a slave caravan after finding the body of a young woman killed by the slavers. Weird Tales accepted the story circa December 1930 and published it in September… | Ali, Bast, Hassim ben Said, Kemal Bey, King Solomon, Moses, Muhammad, N'Longa, Solomon Kane, the Horror, Yussef the Hadji | $56 | 1931 |
| The Ghost of Camp Colorado | The Ghost of Camp Colorado is an article Howard wrote for the Texaco Star Company’s magazine. A titled draft survives, along with an incomplete start of its first page; the version published in the April 1931 Texaco Star is fuller.… | Big Foot, Breeze 21st 31984, Captain Maltby, Captain Michael MacNamara, Captain Sol Ross, Captain Theodore O’Hara, Cynthia Ann Parker, General Fitzhugh Lee, General James B. Hood, General Kirby Smith, General Robert E. Lee, Henry Sackett, James P. Major, Jape, Major Van Dorn, Miss Mary MacNamara, Peta Nocona | $28.26 | 1931 |
| The Gods of Bal-Sagoth | The legacy prose appears to describe the later publication-title history rather than the Work as a whole. The title The Blonde Goddess of Bal-Sagoth is recorded as a publication title, while The Gods of Bal-Sagoth was already published in Weird… | Athelstane the Saxon, Brunhild, Gelka, Gol-goroth, Gothan, Groth-golka, Kotar, Rane Thorfin’s son, Ska, The Nameless Thing, Thor, Turlogh Dubh O'Brien, Zomar | $140 | 1931 |
| Hawks of Outremer | HAWKS OF OUTREMER is a story in the Cormac Fitzgeoffrey series about a knight fighting in the Crusades. Cormac Fitzgeoffrey only appears in two of these tales: Hawks of Outremer and The Blood of Belshazzar, both written in 1930. In… | Alexius, Conrad von Gonler, Cormac FitzGeoffrey, Donal, Eamonn Fitzgerald, Eochaidh O’Donnell, Frederick Barbarossa, Geoffrey the Bastard, James Fitzgerald, Kosru Malik, Michael de Blois, Nial Mac Art, Nureddin El Ghor, Richard the Lion-hearted, Saladin, Satan, Sieur Gerard de Gissclin, Sir Rupert de Vaile, Sir William le Botelier, Yulala | $120 | 1931 |
| The House of Peril | The House of Peril is the original Howard story featuring Mike Dorgan and Bill McGlory. Fiction House accepted it after submission on April 20, 1931, but Action Stories altered the story for its October 1931 publication: Mike Dorgan became Steve… | Bill McGlory, China Moon, Clanry, Dutchman, John (House of Peril barkeep), Kang Woon, Kit Worley, Mike Dorgan, Sir Peter Brent, Tung Yin | $75 | 1931 |
| Kid Galahad | The Good Knight. Accepted by Street & Smith circa mid-May 1931 and published in December. Howard got $90 for this story. | Battling Worley, Billy Ash, Franky Jones, Jack Reynolds, John L. Sullivan, Katherine Flynn, Kid Allison, Lopez (the Cuban Shadow), One-Round Donovan, Red Darts, Sir Galahad | $90 | 1931 |
| Man with the Mystery Mitts | The Man With the Mystery Mitts is a Kid Allison story first published in Street & Smith's Sport Story Magazine, volume 33, number 2, on October 25, 1931. Circa May–June 1931 Howard sold three stories to Street & Smith, probably… | Aurelio Herrera, Battling Lacosta, Battling Nelson, Billy Ash, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bonehead Barlow, Buff Kernan, Dal Hawkins, Flash Bonello, Franky Jones, Gus Ruhlin, Gustave Deal, Jack Reynolds, James J. Jeffries, Jess Willard, Joe Perdy, John L. Sullivan, Kid Allison, Kid McCoy, Sam Langford, Young Otto | $100 | 1931 |
| Red Blades of Black Cathay | Red Blades of Black Cathay was written as a collaboration between Robert E. Howard and Tevis Clyde Smith. It was first published in Oriental Stories in the February/March issue of 1931. It was accepted in July 1930. The story is… | Alexius, Angelus, Baldwin, Boniface of Montferrat, Chamu Khan, Chepe Noyon, Erlik, Fulk of Neuilly, Genghis Khan, Godric de Villehard, Gurgaslan, Innocent III, Jahadur, Kassar, Roogla, Simon de Montfort, Subotai, Walter de Brienne, Wang Khan, Wang Yin, You-tai, Yulita | $118 | 1931 |
| The Sign of the Snake | The Sign of the Snake was first published in Action Stories, volume 10, number 10, in June 1931. Howard received $75 for the story.Howard’s protagonist was McClarney, but Action Stories changed the character’s name to Steve Costigan. In a May… | Big John Clancy, Bill, British S.S. Marquis, Bully Dawson, Froggy Ladeau, Panther, Red McCoy, Steve McClarney, Wells (Sign of the Snake), Yotai T’sao, Yuen Lao, Yun Lai Kao | $75 | 1931 |
| A Student of Sockology | College Socks is the Kid Allison form of the story represented by the Work A Student of Sockology. The story was sent to Street & Smith’s Sport Story Magazine on May 20, 1931 and accepted later that month. The catalogue… | Gadello, Harry Richards, Jack Dempsey, Kid Allison, Kid McCoy, Mike, Peggy Stanton, Professor Horace Clements, Professor Horace J. Clements, Spider Kelly, Spike Cleary, Steve Costigan, the Camberton football coach, Young Rourke | $100 | 1931 |
| Texas Fists | "Texas Fists" is a story of adventure, camaraderie, and rivalry, narrated by Steve Costigan, a sailor on the Sea Girl. The story was probably accepted circa March by Fiction House. It was published in the May edition and Howard earned… | Biff Leary, Bill Dornley, Bill O’Brien, Buck, Jim, Joan Dornley, Joe, Lopez, Menly, Mike, Mrs. Dornley, Mushy Hansen, Pete, Red, Sea Girl, Shorty, Slim, Steve Costigan, Tex, the Kid, Yuma | $75 | 1931 |
| Waterfront Law | Waterfront Law follows the exploits of Steve Costigan, a sailor with a heart as big as his fists. First published as The TNT Punch in Action Stories, volume 10, number 5 January 1931. Featuring Steve Costigan. Howard earned $70.00 for… | Bill Slane, Boardin’-house Kate, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bucko Brent, Bulawayo Hurley, Elinor, Kid Delrano, Mike, Sea Girl, Shifty Kerren, Steve Costigan | $70 | 1931 |
| The Horror from the Mound | The Horror from the Mound, featuring Steve Brill, is an early example of Howard’s weird Western fiction. Howard submitted the story to the Clayton magazine group on July 9, 1931, where it was rejected. Farnsworth Wright also rejected it before… | Don Santiago de Valdez, Hernando de Estrada, Juan Lopez, Juan Zavilla, Porfirio Lopez, Steve Brill | $65 | 1932 |
| The Lame Man | The Lame Man was Howard’s original title for the story later published as Lord of Samarcand. Farnsworth Wright requested a story about Tamerlane circa August 1931, and Howard discussed the resulting story in correspondence with Tevis Clyde Smith. It was… | Ak Boga, Alexander the Great, Bayazid, Despina, Donald MacDeesa, Erlik, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Khan Zade, King Peter Lazarus, Lord Douglas, Nur Din, Philip of Artois, Prince Khalil, Sarai Khanum, Shadi Mulkh, Sigismund of Hungary, Tamerlane, Zuleika | $140 | 1932 |
| Night of Battle | Night of Battle is a Steve Costigan story set in Singapore. It was first published in Fight Stories in March 1932, and Howard received $60 for it. The story was reprinted in the Fall 1942 issue of the same magazine… | Ace Larnigan, Bad Bill Kerney, John Lynch, Johnny Kyelan, Mike, Mike O’Brien, Old Bunger, Red Elkins, Sea Girl, Shifty Brelen, Sir Peter Brent, Smoky Rourke, Spike, Steve Costigan, Water Snake, Wolf McGernan, Yota Lao | $60 | 1932 |
| One Shanghai Night | One Shanghai Night was originally written for Mike Dorgan and Bill McGlory. When the story was published in Action Stories as Dark Shanghai, Mike Dorgan had been changed to Steve Costigan. Howard received $75 for the story. Howard wrote three… | Ace Barlow, Big Bess, Bill McGlory, Cap’n Hurley, Catherine Deal, John Bain, Mike Dorgan, Tung Chin, Yuen Kiang, Yut Lao | $75 | 1932 |
| People of the Dark | People of the Dark is a remembrance/reincarnation story. In October 1931 Howard completed a version and sent it to Clayton Publications' new Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror. Editor Harry Bates returned it on October 29 requesting revisions; Howard revised… | Conan of the Reavers, Crom, Eleanor Bland, John O'Brien, Richard Brent, Tamera, Vertorix | $134 | 1932 |
| The Phoenix on the Sword | The Phoenix on the Sword was the first Conan story published, appearing in Weird Tales in December 1932. Howard developed it by rewriting substantial portions of his unpublished Kull story By This Axe I Rule! and transforming the material around… | Ascalante, Badb, Conan, Crom, Ctesphon, Dion, Epemitreus, Gromel, Macha, Mitra, Morrigan, Nemain, Numa, Numedides, Pallantides, Prospero, Publius, Rammon, Rinaldo, Set, the summoned horror of Set, Thoth-amon, Trocero, Volmana, Ymir | $85 | 1932 |
| The Sowers of the Thunder | Baibars, also known as Sultan Baybars (full name: Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari), was a powerful ruler of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate period, ruling from 1260 until his death in 1277. Baibars started as a slave,… | Al Mansur, Baibars, Cahal Ruadh O’Donnel, Cormac FitzGeoffrey, Di Zaro, Genghis Khan, Kuran Shah, Muhammad, Renault d’Ibelin, Saladin, Shadjar ad Darr, Shaykh Suleyman ibn Omad, Subotai, the Masked Knight | $160 | 1932 |
| The Thing on the Roof | The Thing on the Roof was completed circa December 1930. Howard sent it to Claytons (Strange Tales) on June 6, 1931, but it was later rejected. It was also sent to Argosy on June 19, 1931, but rejected.Howard finally re-sent… | Bridewall, Diego Vasquez, Justin Geoffrey, Professor James Clement, Tussmann, Von Junzt | $40 | 1932 |
| Vikings of the Gloves | Published in Fight Stories Fall 1940. Published under the name of Mark Adam. "Includin' the Scandinavian" previously appeared in Fight Stories V4N9, February 1932 as Vikings of the Gloves | Bill O’Brien, Captain Gid Jessup, Dirck Jacobsen, Gustavus Adolphus, Hakon Torkilsen, John Jones, John L. Sullivan, Mike, Mushy Hansen, Neimann, Nigger King, Old Man, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan, Sven Larson, Sven Tortvigssen, Viking | $65 | 1932 |
| Wings in the Night | Wings in the Night. After being accepted in July 1930 by Weird Tales, the story was published two years later, in July 1932. Featuring Solomon Kane. Kane comes across an entire village wiped out, and all of the roofs have… | Chimera, Drake, Goru, Hengist, Hydra, Kuroba, Loga, Medusa, N'Longa, N’Yasunna, Nayela, Pan, Solomon Kane, the akaana slain by Solomon Kane | $118 | 1932 |
| Worms of the Earth | Worms of the Earth. It was originally published in the magazine Weird Tales in November 1932 and accepted circa January/February earlier that year. The story features one of Howard's recurring protagonists, Bran Mak Morn, a legendary king of the Picts.… | Atla, Bran Mak Morn, Caius Camillus, Centurion Publius, Cormac of Connacht, Cthulhu, Demetrius, Gonar, Grom, Jupiter, Moon-Woman, the nameless water-monster of Dagon’s Mere, Titus Sulla, Valerius | $120 | 1932 |
| Black Colossus | Black Colossus is a Conan story in which Conan enters the service of Khoraja and is drawn into its war against Natohk, “the Veiled One.” It was first published in Weird Tales. The legacy catalogue records $130.00 in income for… | Agha Shupras, Amalric, Bel, Conan, Ishtar, Khossus, Kutamun, Mitra, Natohk's demonic camel, Set, Shevatas, Taurus, the Zaheemi guide, Thespides, Thugra Khotan, Vateesa, Vateesa's father, Vathelos the Blind, Yasmela | $130 | 1933 |
| The Cairn on the Headland | "The Cairn on the Headland" by Robert E. Howard is a tale woven with elements of the supernatural, history, and a touch of horror. The story is set in Ireland, near Dublin, and revolves around a mysterious cairn believed to… | Apollo, Brian Boru, Brodir of Man, Il-marinen, James O'Brien, Jarl Sigurd, Jupiter, Mac Firbis, Mac Liag, Mars, Meve MacDonnal, Murrogh, Odin, Ortali, Professor Reynolds, Red Cumal, Reynolds, Saint Brendan the Navigator, Thor, Turlogh | $140 | 1933 |
| The Lion of Tiberias | The Lion of Tiberias is one of Howard’s historical Crusader-era stories. Farnsworth Wright returned it for revision in a June 1932 letter, advising Howard to discard much of the historical opening, begin with the capture of Achmet and Norwald, and… | Achmet, Ak Sunkur, Baldwin, Doubeys ibn Sadaka, Ellen, Il-Ghazi, John Comnene, John Norwald, Joscelin, Kerbogha of Mosul, Melik Shah, Miles du Courcey, Muhammad, Ousama, Saladin, Shami, Sir William de Montserrat, Wulfgar Edric’s son, Yaruktash, Zenghi | $110 | 1933 |
| The Man on the Ground | The Man on the Ground is a brief Texas feud story, first published in Weird Tales in July 1933. Howard received $20. An untitled early draft also survives: in that version Esau Brill is named Saul Brill, and some wording… | Cal Reynolds, Esau Brill | $20 | 1933 |
| Old Garfield's Heart | Old Garfield's Heart was first published in Weird Tales in December 1933. Set after the close of the Old West, it combines frontier material with supernatural horror and is commonly classed as a Weird Western. An earlier draft survives with… | Bill Donaldson, Doc Blaine, Ewen Cameron, Ghost Man, Jack Hayes, Jack Kirby, Jim Garfield, Joe Braxton, Shifty Corlan, the Lipan god whose heart was given to Jim Garfield | $35 | 1933 |
| The Pool of the Black One | The Pool of the Black One is a Conan story first published in Weird Tales in October 1933. Howard received $110 for the story.Set during Conan’s pirate career, it follows his rise aboard a pirate vessel and the crew’s encounter… | Conan, Crom, Mitra, Sancha, Sancha's father, Skelos, the jeweled leader of the Black Ones, Wastrel, Zaporavo | $110 | 1933 |
| The Scarlet Citadel | The Scarlet Citadel is a Conan story first published in Weird Tales in January 1933. Howard received $140 for the story.Conan is now King of Aquilonia. A request for military aid from Ophir draws him into a trap laid by… | Ajaga, Akkutho I, Amalrus, Arbanus, Arpello, Athemides, Conan, Crom, Ishtar, Khossus V, Mitra, Pelias, Publius, Satha, Set, Shukeli, Strabonus, the Abombi slave's brother, the Kushite slave from Abombi, Trocero, Tsotha-lanti, Tsotha-lanti's demon father, Tsotha-lanti's mother, Ymir | $140 | 1933 |
| Talons in the Dark | Talons in the Dark is Howard’s original title for the story published in Strange Detective Stories as Black Talons. It follows Joel Brill after the murder of his friend Jim Reynolds draws him into a case at White Lake involving… | Ali the Egyptian, Buckley, Guja, Jim Reynolds, Joel Brill, John Galt, Jugra Singh, Yut Wuen | $55.25 | 1933 |
| The Tower of the Elephant | The Tower of the Elephant is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian. It was accepted by Weird Tales in April 1932 but was not published until almost a year later,… | Bel, Conan, Crom, Taurus, the giant spider of the Elephant Tower, the Kothian thief in the Maul, Yag-kosha, Yara, Yun | $95 | 1933 |
| Xuthal of the Dusk | "The Slithering Shadow" is one of the original short stories starring Conan. First published in the September 1933 issue of Weird Tales magazine. "The Slithering Shadow" is the original title, but the story is also known as "Xuthal of the… | Almuric, Conan, Crom, Derketo, Mitra, Natala, Thalis, Thog | $120 | 1933 |
| Alleys of Darkness | Alleys of Darkness developed from a Sailor Steve Costigan story into a Dennis Dorgan version and was published in the January 1934 issue of The Magic Carpet Magazine under the credited name Patrick Ervin. The catalogue records a $54.00 sale… | Ace Bissett, Bill O’Brien, Bill Reynolds, Cap’n Donnelly, Diamond Joe Galt, Dutch Steinmann, Glory O’Dale, Jed Whithers, Kid Leary, Limey Teak, McVey, Mike, Old Man, Red Partland, Sea Girl, Steve Costigan | $45.90 | 1934 |
| The Daughter of Erlik Khan | The Daughter of Erlik Khan is an El Borak story. Howard’s agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received it on December 28, 1933. It was published in Top-Notch in December 1934. The story sold for $230; after the Kline Agency’s commission, Howard… | Ahmed (Gordon's Punjabi servant), Akbar (Turkoman), Ali Khan (Turkoman), Erlik, Francis Xavier Gordon, Ojuh, Orkhan Shah, Ormond, Pembroke (Daughter of Erlik Khan), Uzun Beg, Yasmeena (Daughter of Erlik Khan), Yatub, Yogok, Yusef Khan (Turkoman) | $195.50 | 1934 |
| The Devil in Iron | The Devil in Iron is a Conan story accepted by Weird Tales on December 14, 1933, and published in August 1934. Howard earned $115 for the story. Its plot involves the resurrection of an ancient demon, the theft of a… | Conan, Ghaznavi, Gilzan, Jehungir Agha, Jelal Khan, Khosatral Khel, Mitra, Octavia, Octavia's father, Skelos, Tarim, the giant snake of Xapur, Yateli, Yezdigerd | $115 | 1934 |
| General Ironfist | General Ironfist is a Steve Costigan story set amid political upheaval in China. Searching for his missing friend Soapy Jackson, Costigan accepts a fight in Hong Kong, is drugged and carried to a rebel camp, and is forced by General… | General Whang Shan, General Yun Chei, Joel Ballerin, Sea Girl, Soapy Jackson, Steve Costigan, Wu Shang, Yellow Typhoon | $35 | 1934 |
| A Gent from Bear Creek | A Gent from Bear Creek is both the title of an original Breckinridge Elkins short story and of the later fix-up novel assembled from revised stories plus new material. The short story was received by Howard’s agent, Otis Adelbert Kline,… | Al Jackson, Alexander, Augustus, Bill Ormond, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Doc Richards, Ellen, Erath Elkins, Jack Gordon, Jackson, Jeppard Grimes, Jim, Jim Elkins, Joab, Joel Gordon, Ouachita Elkins, Pocatello Bill, Polk County Elkins, Wolf Ashley, Wolf Ormond | $46.75 | 1934 |
| Guns of the Mountains | Guns of the Mountains, along with The Ghost with the Silk Hat and A Gent from Bear Creek, was received by Howard’s agent, Otis Kline, on November 8, 1933. It was published in Action Stories in May–June 1934. The story… | Bill Elkins, Braxton, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Dick Hopkins, Ellen Reynolds, Garfield Elkins, Jim Braxton, Joe Partland, Joel Cairn, Roarin' Bill Elkins, Tarantula Bixby | $42.50 | 1934 |
| The Haunter of the Ring | The Haunter of the Ring was first published in Weird Tales in June 1934, for which Howard received $60. Set in the modern era, the story connects to the Conan cycle through the ring of Thoth-Amon, an artifact said to… | Ahmed Mektub, Bill Bain, Doctor Donnelly, Elizabeth Douglas, Evelyn Gordon, James Gordon, John O’Donnel, Joseph Roelocke, Kirowan, Sir Richard Gordon, Thoth-amon | $60 | 1934 |
| Iron Shadows in the Moon | Iron Shadows in the Moon is a Conan story first published in Weird Tales in April 1934 under the title Shadows in the Moonlight. Set around the Vilayet Sea, it follows Conan and Olivia to a remote island inhabited by… | Aratus, Conan, Crom, Irem, Ishtar, Ivanos, Mitra, Olivia, Olivia's father, Sergius of Khrosha, Shah Amurath, the ancient parrot of the island, the ancient stranger of the island vision, the ancient stranger's son, the gray man-ape of the island, Yildiz | $120 | 1934 |
| Mountain Man | Mountain Man is a Breckinridge Elkins story in which Breckinridge rides to Tomahawk to collect a letter for his father and becomes entangled in a chain of mistaken identities and brawls. Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received the story on… | Alexander, Bat O'Tool, Bill Elkins, Bill Elston, Bill Rogers, Braxton, Breckinridge Elkins, Bruiser McGoorty, Comanche Santry, Joe Blaine, John Elkins, John L. Sullivan, McVey, Roarin' Bill Elkins, Yucca Blaine | $46.75 | 1934 |
| Names in the Black Book | Names in the Black Book is a Steve Harrison detective story involving a list of threatened victims and the apparent return of an enemy believed dead. Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received the story in January 1934. It sold for… | Ali ibn Suleyman, Chief Hoolihan, Erlik Khan, Genghis Khan, Ibrahim ibn Achmet, Jacob Kossova, Joan La Tour, Johnny Kleck, Khoda Khan, Li-chin, Shan Yang, Steve Harrison | $85 | 1934 |
| The People of the Black Circle | The People of the Black Circle is a Conan novella first serialized in Weird Tales across the September, October and November 1934 issues. Howard received $250 for the story.Set largely in Vendhya, the story follows Conan’s abduction of the Devi… | Bhunda Chand, Black jade spider, Chunder Shan, Conan, Conan’s black stallion, Crom, Giant serpent of Yimsha, Gitara, Kerim Shah, Khemsa, Khosru Khan, Master of Yimsha, Princess of Khosala, Skelos, Summoned night-weird, Yar Afzal, Yasmina, Yezdigerd | $250 | 1934 |
| People of the Serpent | People of the Serpent is a Steve Harrison detective story in which Harrison pursues Woon Shang into a dangerous swamp. Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received the story on October 23, 1933. It was published in the February 1934 issue… | Celia Pompoloi, Joe Corley, John Bartholomew, Li-keh-tsung, Li-keh-tsung's granddaughter, Rogers, Steve Harrison, Swamp Cat, the Great Serpent, Woon Shang | $85 | 1934 |
| Queen of the Black Coast | Queen of the Black Coast is a Conan story first published in Weird Tales in May 1934. Conan becomes a pirate alongside Bêlit, queen of the Black Coast, and the story combines piracy, romance and supernatural adventure.Howard received $115 for… | Adonis, Argus, Ashtoreth, Bel, Bêlit, Conan, Crom, Derketo, Ishtar, N’Gora, N’Yaga, Set, Skelos, the giant serpent of the Zarkheba, the winged one of the lost city, Tigress, Tito | $115 | 1934 |
| The Road to Bear Creek | The Road to Bear Creek is a Breckinridge Elkins story. Howard’s agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received it on March 19, 1934. The story sold for $50; after the Kline Agency’s commission, Howard received $42.50.Howard later altered the story slightly and… | Badger Chisom, Bill Polk, Bill Reynolds, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Elizabeth, Esau Grimes, Grizzly Hawkins, Jim Braxton, Jim Hopkins, Roarin' Bill Elkins | $42.50 | 1934 |
| Rogues in the House | "Rogues in the House" is one of the original short stories starring Conan. First published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. Sold for $100.00. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in… | Anu, Athicus, Conan, Crom, Joka, Mitra, Murilo, Nabonidus, Petreus, Thak | $100 | 1934 |
| The Scalp Hunter | The Scalp Hunter is a Breckinridge Elkins story. Howard’s agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received it on January 29, 1934, and Fiction House accepted it on February 21. The story sold for $60; after the Kline Agency’s commission, Howard received $51.Howard… | Bill Jackson, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Jack Gordon, Jeppard Grimes, Jim, Tunk Willoughby, Yeller Eagle | $51 | 1934 |
| The Shadow of the Vulture | The Shadow of the Vulture is a historical adventure set against the Ottoman advance into Central Europe and the Siege of Vienna in 1529. Howard sold the story on March 6, 1933, for $140; it was published in The Magic… | Attila, Bayazid, Count Salm, Ferdinand, Gottfried von Kalmbach, Habordansky, Ibrahim, Ivga, Jerome Lasczky, Marczali, Mikhal Oglu, Muhammad the Conqueror, Nikolas Zrinyi, Othman, Paul Bakics, Philip the Palgrave, Red Sonya, Rhupen, Roggendorf, Roxelana, Subotai, Suleyman the Magnificent, Tshoruk, Wulf Hagen, Yaruk Khan, Zapolya | $140 | 1934 |
| The Slugger's Game | The Slugger's Game is a Sailor Steve Costigan short story by Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the May 1934 issue of Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine. Sold for $35. | Battler Pembroke, Bisly, Li Yun, Mike, Smoky Jones, Steve Costigan, Torpedo Willoughby, Wells | $35 | 1934 |
| Sluggers of the Beach | Sluggers of the Beach is a Sailor Steve Costigan story first published in the August 1934 issue of Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine. Howard received $35 for the story. The plot combines a boxing rivalry with a supposed treasure map and… | Bat Schimmerling, Chin Yat, Joe Donovan, Li Yang, Mike, Red Hoolihan, Sea Girl, Slip Harper, Smoky Harrigan, Steve Costigan, Suez Kit, Tom Storley, Yao Shan | $35 | 1934 |
| Swords of Shahrazar | Swords of Shahrazar is a direct sequel to The Treasures of Tartary, following Kirby O’Donnell only days later. Howard’s agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, received the story on January 12, 1934.Violet Cooper, Kline’s New York representative, first offered it to Thrilling… | Afzal Khan, Ahmed Shah (Khuruk), Baber Khan (Untitled Fragment), Baber (Suleiman Pasha's servant), Colonel Ivan Kurovitch, Dost Shah, Genghis Khan, Kirby O'Donnell, Muhammad Shah, Orkhan Bahadur, Shaibar Khan, Suleiman Pasha, Tamerlane, Yar Akbar, Yar Muhammad | $124.90 | 1934 |
| Teeth of Doom | Teeth of Doom was received by Howard’s agent Kline on August 31, 1933. The original story features Steve Harrison; the February 1934 issue of Strange Detective Stories published a version under the title The Tomb’s Secret and the byline Patrick… | Chief Hoolihan, Fang Yin, Fang Yin's mandarin agent, Hanson, Harper, Jackson, James Willoughby, Job Hopkins, Joey Glick, Judas Iscariot, Laveaux, McFarlane, Mongol courier at Hopkins' tomb, Mongol intruder at Willoughby's house, Mongol taxi driver, Old Chinese tooth-puller, Richard Brent, Richard Lynch, Spike, Steve Harrison, Yah Lai, Yarghouz Barolass, Yuen Chin | $85 | 1934 |
| The Valley of the Worm | The Valley of the Worm is a short story by Howard. While it does not namecheck any specific Mythos entities or books, it features a monstrous and extremely powerful "cosmic horror" referred to as The Worm, a creature white squamous… | Bragi, Grom, Hialmar, James Allison, Niord, Satha, The Worm | $80 | 1934 |
| A Witch Shall Be Born | A Witch Shall Be Born is a Conan story set in Khauran, where Queen Taramis is displaced by her twin sister Salome and Conan is drawn into the struggle that follows. Howard wrote the story in the spring of 1934;… | Alcemides, Astreas, Conan, Constantius, Crom, Djebal, Ishtar, Ivga, Khitan magician who raised Salome, Khumbanigash, Krallides, Mitra, Olgerd Vladislav, Pre-Adamite demon of the Askhaurian curse, Salome, Taramis, Thaug, Valerius, Zang | $155 | 1934 |
| The Apache Mountain War | The Apache Mountain War is a 1935 Breckinridge Elkins story first published in Action Stories in December 1935. At least four drafts are known, making the story unusually well represented in surviving developmental material. | Bill Elkins, Bill Gordon, Bill Grimes, Breckinridge Elkins, Buckner Kirby, Cap’n Kidd, Dick Grimes, Dick Grimes’s youngest daughter, Erath Grimes, Esau Gordon, Esau Grimes, Harry Braxton, Jacob Grimes, Jeppard Grimes, Jim Gordon, Jim Grimes, Joe Gordon, Joe Grimes, Joel Garfield, Joshua, Kit Kirby, Kit Kirby’s mother, one of the Garfield boys, Roarin' Bill Elkins, Shadrach Polk, Tascosa Polk | $ ? | 1935 |
| Beyond the Black River | Beyond the Black River is a Conan story set on the frontier beyond Aquilonia’s Black River, where settlers and soldiers face a Pictish offensive. It was first published in two parts in the May and June 1935 issues of Weird… | Balthus, Conan, Crom, Ghost Snake, Gullah, Gullah’s sacred bull ape, Jhebbal Sag, Mitra, Slasher, Soractus, Tiberias, Valannus, Zogar Sag, Zogar Sag’s saber-tooth tiger, Zogar Sag’s tracking leopard | $ ? | 1935 |
| Blood of the Gods | "Blood of the Gods" is an El Borak short story by Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the July 1935 issue of the pulp magazine Top-Notch. A group of soldiers of fortune seek a set of matched rubies… | Achmet ibn Mitkhal, Al Wazir, Ala ed-din Muhammad of Delhi, Dirdar, Francis Xavier Gordon, Hawkston, Krakovitch, Ortelli, Salim, Shalan ibn Mansour, Van Brock | $ ? | 1935 |
| The Feud Buster | The Feud Buster is a Breckinridge Elkins story first published in Action Stories in June 1935. Howard later altered it slightly for use as chapter 6 of A Gent from Bear Creek. The story combines family-feud misunderstandings with the humor… | Bill Hopkins, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Dick Jackson, Elizerbeth Hopkins, Ellen Elkins, Jake Barlow, Jeppard Grimes, Old Man Hopkins, Roarin' Bill Elkins | $ ? | 1935 |
| Gold from Tatary | A Kirby O'Donnell tale. The Treasures of Tartary. Sold for $50 and when Kline Agency had their share, Howard earned $42.50. It was published in Thrilling Adventures in January 1935.Kirby O’Donnell is an American treasure hunter, created by Howard, in… | Ahmed Pasha, Ayisha, Kirby O'Donnell, Muhammad Shah, Orkhan Bahadur, Othman (Gold from Tatary), Shaibar Khan, Yar Akbar | $42.50 | 1935 |
| The Grisly Horror | Howard’s The Grisly Horror was published in Weird Tales in February 1935 and was later published under the title Moon of Zambebwei. Otis Adelbert Kline received the story on July 23, 1934. It sold for $110; after the Kline Agency’s… | Ahmed ibn Suleyman, Ali ibn Suleyman, Bristol McGrath, Constance Brand, John De Albor, Richard Ballville, Zemba | $99 | 1935 |
| The Haunted Mountain | The Haunted Mountain is a humorous Breckinridge Elkins story later revised and incorporated as Chapter 10 of the novel A Gent from Bear Creek. Robert McIlvaine discusses a possible literary influence on the story in “The Influence of Joseph A.… | Bill Glanton, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Horace Van Brock, Jacob Grimes, Joe Hopkins, Joshua Braxton, Lavaca Grimes | $ ? | 1935 |
| Hawk of the Hills | Hawk of the Hills is an El Borak story, first published in the June 1935 issue of Top-Notch. | Afdal Khan, Ahmed Khan (Hawk of the Hills), Ali Bahadur, Ali Shah (Hawk of the Hills), Baber Ali, Francis Xavier Gordon, Geoffrey Willoughby, Geronimo, Khoda Khan, Satan, Suleiman (Willoughby's servant), Yar Ali Khan, Yar Muhammad, Yusef Shah | $ ? | 1935 |
| The Hour of the Dragon | The Hour of the Dragon is Howard’s Conan novel, first published as a serial in Weird Tales from December 1935 through April 1936. Gnome Press issued the first book edition in 1950 under the title Conan the Conqueror. That title… | Ajonga, Akivasha, Albiona, Altaro, Amalric, Arideus, Asura, Baal, Beloso, Chiron, Conan, Conan’s father, Crom, Demetrio, Emilius Scavonus, Gebal, Ghoul that drags Conan, Gray ape of the pits, Hadrathus, Ishtar, Laranga, Mitra, Nimed, Orastes, Pallantides, Prospero, Publio, Publius, Sacred son of Set, Servius Galannus, Set, Skelos, Tarascus, Thespius, Thoth-amon, Thothmekri, Thutothmes, Tiberias, Tiberio, Trocero, Tuthamon, Valannus, Valbroso, Valerius, Venturer, Xaltotun, Yasunga, Ymir, Zelata, Zelata’s gray wolf, Zenobia, Zorathus | $160 | 1935 |
| The Last Ride | The Last Ride is a collaboration between Howard and Chandler Whipple, who published under the name Robert Enders Allen. Whipple had been unable to complete the story, and Otis Adelbert Kline suggested that Howard revise or complete it for sale.… | Big Jim, Bob Anders, Braxton, Buck Laramie, Ely Harrison, Hank, Hop Sing, Joel Waters, Judy Anders, Killer Rawlins, Luke, Mart Rawley, Slim Jones, Tom | $78.75 | 1935 |
| The Man-Eaters of Zamboula | The Man-Eaters of Zamboula was Howard’s original title for the Conan story published in Weird Tales in November 1935 as Shadows in Zamboula. The story unfolds during a single night in Zamboula and introduces the strangler Baal-Pteor. Howard was paid… | Aram Baksh, Baal-pteor, Conan, Crom, Hanuman, Jungir Khan, Nafertari, Set, The Zuagir who warns Conan, Totrasmek, Yajur, Yog | $120 | 1935 |
| The Peaceful Pilgrim | — | Blink Wiltshaw, Breckinridge Elkins, Buckner Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Jake Roman, Polecat Rixby, Rattlesnake Harrison | $ ? | 1935 |
| The Riot at Cougar Paw | The Riot at Cougar Paw is a Breckinridge Elkins story first published in Action Stories in October 1935. The amount Howard was paid is not recorded in the current catalogue data. | Aunt Atascosa, Bearfield Buckner, Bill Santry, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Jeppard Grimes, Joan, Joe Richardson, John Elkins, Jonathan Middleton, Old Man Kirby, Old Man Westfall, Roarin' Bill Elkins | $ ? | 1935 |
| The Servants of Bit-Yakin | Howard’s title for the story is The Servants of Bit-Yakin. It was first published as Jewels of Gwahlur in Weird Tales in March 1935. Howard received $155 for the story.Conan travels to the ancient city of Alkmeenon in search of… | Bit-Yakin, Bit-Yakin’s surviving servant, Conan, Crom, Dagon, Derketo, Gorulga, Gwarunga, King of Keshan, Mitra, Muriela, Thutmekri, Yelaya, Zargheba | $155 | 1935 |
| War on Bear Creek | War on Bear Creek. Received by Kline Agency on November 19, 1934. Featuring Breckinridge Elkins.First published in Action Stories, April 1935. The story sold for $60 and Howard earned $54 after Kline Agency got their commission fee.This short story was… | Bill Elkins, Bill Kirby, Breckinridge Elkins, Buck Grimes, Buckner Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Ellen Elkins, Erath Elkins, Esau Grimes, Garfield Elkins, J. Pembroke Pemberton, Jack Grimes, Jeppard Grimes, Jim Elkins, Jim Gordon, Joan Elkins, Joash Grimes, Joe Braxton, Joel Gordon, John Elkins, Jonathan Polk, Margaret Ashley, Medina Kirby, Mrs. Kirby, Ouachita Elkins, Pecos Buckner, Polk County Grimes, President Polk, Roarin' Bill Elkins, Steve Polk, Tunk Willoughby, Zavalla Garfield | $54 | 1935 |
| Black Canaan | Black Canaan is a Southern horror story in which Kirby Buckner returns to the isolated Canaan region and confronts the threat posed by Saul Stark. Kline’s records document an earlier version and a later rewrite before the story was accepted… | Bill Reynolds, Captain Sorley, Esau McBride, Jim Braxton, John Willoughby, Kirby Buckner, Ridge Jackson, Saul Stark, Tope Sorley | $108 | 1936 |
| Black Hound of Death | Black Hound of Death is a horror story set in the Deep South pine woods and featuring Kirby Garfield, Richard Brent, Tope Braxton and Adam Grimm. The legacy record says Howard’s agent received the story on August 16, 1934; it… | Adam Grimm, Ashley, Erlik, Gloria Brent, Jim Tike, Joe Sorley, Kirby Garfield, Richard Brent, Tope Braxton | $90 | 1936 |
| Black Wind Blowing | Black Wind Blowing is a mystery-adventure story published in the June 1936 issue of Thrilling Mystery. The legacy record says Binder sold it to Street & Smith for $40.00 circa April 1936; the catalogue likewise records $40.00 in income. | Ahriman, Emmett Glanton, Jake, Joan Zukor, John Bruckman, Joshua, Juan Sanchez, Lem Richards | $40 | 1936 |
| The Dead Remember | The Dead Remember was submitted to Argosy in 1936 and sold to Munsey by Otto Binder for $17.50. Two drafts are known. They differ chiefly in character names and descriptive details; one notable difference is that the earlier draft lacks… | Bat Masterson, Colonel Henry, J. J. Connolly, J. S. Ord, James G. Blaine, Jezebel, Jim Gordon, Joe Richards, Joel, John Elston, Joseph T. Decker, Michael Joseph O’Donnell, Mrs. Dick Westfall, R. J. Blaine, Sam Grimes, Steve Kirby, Thomas Allison, William Donovan, William L. Gordon, Wyatt Earp | $17.50 | 1936 |
| Desert Blood | “Desert Blood” is a Wild Bill Clanton adventure set around Tebessa and the Barbary region. It was published in Spicy-Adventure Stories in June 1936 under Howard’s pseudonym Sam Walser. | Ahmed ibn Suleiman, Ayisha, Hassan, Miss Augusta Evans, Muhammad Pasha, Shaykh Ali ibn Zahir, Wild Bill Clanton, Yussef, Zouza, Zulaykha | $ ? | 1936 |
| The Dragon of Kao Tsu | The Dragon of Kao Tsu is a Wild Bill Clanton adventure set in Singapore. Howard used the pseudonym Sam Walser for the story. Otto Binder sold it to Trojan circa February 1936 for $26.50; because it was published after Howard’s… | Betty Elston, Bull Davies, General Kai, Jum Chin, Jum Noy, Marianne Allison, Ram Lal, Richard J. Allison, Shareef Ahmed, Wild Bill Clanton, Yakub | $26.50 | 1936 |
| A Elston to the Rescue | A Elston to the Rescue is a Bearfield Elston reworking of the earlier Breckinridge Elkins story A Elkins Never Surrenders. Kline’s records document the title change and later circulation of the story; a published form is also known as The… | Bearfield Elston, Bearfield Elston’s father, Bill, Chief Tecumseh, Jim, Joe, Joel Garfield, John Clanton, Joseph A. Guarfeel, Old Man Clanton | $60 | 1936 |
| Evil Deeds at Red Cougar | Evil Deeds at Red Cougar is a Breckinridge Elkins story, first published in Action Stories in June 1936. Told in Breckinridge’s first-person voice, it sends him into the corrupt mountain town of Red Cougar, where his efforts to help lead… | Badger McVey, Breckinridge Elkins, Buck Ridgeway, Cap’n Kidd, Jack Montgomery, Jeff Middleton, Kirby, Sue Pritchard, Three-Fingers Clements, Tom Grissom, Tom Richards | $ ? | 1936 |
| The Fire of Asshurbanipal (1) | Howard first wrote The Fire of Asshurbanipal as a straight adventure story, probably in the early 1930s, and later revised it to give the ending a supernatural element. After Howard’s death, his father submitted the supernatural version to Weird Tales,… | Alhazred, Asshurbanipal, Baal, Cthulhu, Koth, Muhammad, Nuredin el Mekru, Steve Clarney, Xuthltan, Yar Ali Khan, Yog-Sothoth | $100 | 1936 |
| A Gent from the Pecos | Sold to Munsey by Binder for $80.00 (Howard earned $72) circa June 1936. This story is listed on Otto Binder's list of sales for 1936, but apparently, Howard sold the story to Argosy directly and paid Kline the 10% commission… | Ash Buckley, Aunt Navasota Hawkins, Bill Clemson, Bill Watson, Cousin Esau Harrison, Cullen Baker, General Braddock, Jedge Peabody, Jeppard Wilkinson, Joe Watson, John McCoy, Judson Bearfield, Kirby Bearfield, Old Jabez Watson, Pike Bearfield, Sam Houston, Satanta, Sinclair’s Defeat, Tom Hanson, Uncle Esau Hawkins, Uncle Joab Hudkins | $72 | 1936 |
| Gents in Buckskin | "No Cowherders Wanted" featuring Breckinridge Elkins.First published in Action Stories, September 1936. “Gents in Buckskin” is a tall-tale Western comedy by Robert E. Howard, first published in Action Stories (September 1936) under the title “No Cowherders Wanted.” Like other stories… | Aunt Henrietta, Breckinridge Elkins, Bull Croghan, Cap’n Kidd, Curly Jacobs, Glaze Bannack, Jabez Granger, Joe Emerson, Judith Granger, Old Man Garnett, Old Man Hopkins, Old Man McGrath | $ ? | 1936 |
| Gents on the Lynch | Gents on the Lynch is told as a letter from Pike Bearfield to his brother Wash, recounting Pike’s misadventures after he leaves Antioch, Colorado, to prospect for gold at Blue Lizard. The story mixes misunderstandings, outlaw trouble and Pike’s exaggerated… | Blaze Wellington, Hannah Sprague, Mustang Stirling, Old Man Sprague, Paul Revere, Pike Bearfield, Polk Williams, Satanta, Washington Bearfield | $76.50 | 1936 |
| Gents on the Rampage | Gents on the Rampage was first published in Action Stories, volume 13, number 9 (August 1936), under the title High Horse Rampage. The story follows Breckinridge Elkins as he sets out to “rescue” his cousin Bearfield Buckner from an imagined… | Ann Wilkins, Bearfield Buckner, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Drooping Whiskers, Esau, Joe Allison, Lem Campbell, Lem Jackson, Meshak, Old Man Brant Mulholland, Professor Horace J. Lattimer, Saragosa Grimes | $ ? | 1936 |
| The Girl on the Hell Ship | The Girl on the Hell Ship was sent to Frank Armer at Spicy-Adventure Stories on October 8, 1935, sold on October 23, and published in the April 1936 issue as She Devil under the byline Sam Walser. Howard went on… | Buck Richardson, Captain Harrigan, Raquel O'Shane, Saucy Lass, Wild Bill Clanton | $48.60 | 1936 |
| Graveyard Rats | Graveyard Rats is a Steve Harrison story, first published in the February 1936 issue of Thrilling Mystery. It centers on the Wilkinson family, an old feud and a grisly mystery with supernatural overtones. The amount Howard received for the story… | Jim Allison, Joash Sullivan, Job Wilkinson, Joel Middleton, John Wilkinson, McVey, Peter Wilkinson, Richard Wilkinson, Saul Wilkinson, Steve Harrison, Uncle Job, William Shakespeare, Wolf Hunter | $ ? | 1936 |
| Iron-Jaw | First published for DIME SPORTS MAGAZINE in April 1936. Published in The Iron Man, Grant, 1976, as Fists of the Desert. | Al Lyman, Big John Lynch, Dick O’Connell, Diego Lopez, Doc Allister, Fred Harmer, Jack Miller, Jem Figg, Jim Harper, Joe Grim, Joe Harrigan, Juan Salvador, Kirby Karnes, Ledgren, Spike Sullivan, Steinman (Fists of the Desert), Wild Bill McGrath, Zorelli | $ ? | 1936 |
| A Man-Eating Jeopard | A Man-Eating Jeopard is a Buckner Jeopardy Grimes story. Kline received it on December 26, 1934; it was sold to Street & Smith and first published in Cowboy Stories in June 1936. The sale was $55.00, of which Howard received… | Bill Grimes, Buckner J. Grimes, Diego Gonzales, Navajo Beldon, Red Richards, Swag McBride | $49.50 | 1936 |
| Pistol Politics | “Pistol Politics” was first published in Action Stories Volume 13 Number 7, Fiction House, Inc., April 1936. The story follows the explosive mix of politics, liquor, and literacy in the rough frontier mining camp of Yeller Dog, as Breckinridge Elkins… | Bill Garrison, Bill Stark, Breckinridge Elkins, Bull Hawkins, Cap’n Kidd, Forty-Rod Harrigan, Gooseneck Wilkerson, Jack Clanton, Jack McDonald, Jerry Brennon, Jim Leary, Jim McDonald, Lobo Harrison, Mule McGrath, Old Man Jake Hanson, Salomey Hanson, Snake River Murgatroyd, Soapy Jackson, Tarantula Allison | $ ? | 1936 |
| Politics at Lonesome Lizard | “Politics at Lonesome Lizard” was first published under the title The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humbolts in Action Stories, Volume 13, Number 11, by Fiction House, Inc., October 1936. The original manuscript title was Politics at Blue Lizard, but as… | Abednego Raxton, Bearfield Buckner, Big Jon, Bige Gantry, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Jack Campbell, Johnny Willoughby, Margaret Brewster, Ted Bissett | $ ? | 1936 |
| The Purple Heart of Erlik | “The Purple Heart of Erlik” is a tale of deception, intrigue, and violence, showcasing the darker aspects of human nature against the backdrop of Shanghai’s seedy underbelly. The story follows Arline Ellis, a woman blackmailed by Duke Tremayne into stealing… | Arline Ellis, Baron Takayami, Duke Tremayne, Lady Elizabeth Willoughby, Wild Bill Clanton, Woon Yuen, Yao Chin, Yun Leng | $26 | 1936 |
| Red Nails | "Red Nails" is the last of the stories featuring Conan the Cimmerian. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936, the months after Howard's suicide. Conan is entering a lost city whose degenerate… | Chicmec, Conan, Crom, Derketa, Mitra, Olmec, Set, Tachic, Tascela, Techotl, Tecuhltli, The dragon outside Xuchotl, Tolkemec, Topal, Valeria, Xamec, Xatmec, Xotalanc, Yanath, Yanath’s brother, Yanath’s nephew, Yanath’s paternal uncle, Yasala, Zarallo, Zlanath | $ ? | 1936 |
| The Riot at Bucksnort | The Riot at Bucksnort features Pike Bearfield. | Ace Tremayne, Big Jud Pritchard, Cheyenne Campbell, D. V. Richards, Ephraim L. Whittaker, Esteban, J. G. Smithson, Jack Harrigan, Joe O’Brien, John Donaldson, Judge Clanton, Kirby Bearfield, Michael Grogan, Pike Bearfield, Raphael Garcia, Samuel Trueheart Abercrombie, Satanta, Sergeant O’Hara, Thomas Corbett | $ ? | 1936 |
| Son of the White Wolf | "Son of the White Wolf" is an El Borak short story by Howard. It was originally published in the December 1936 issue of the pulp magazine Thrilling Adventures. Sold to Standard by Otto Binder circa June 1936 for $50.00. El… | Abraham, Ahmed ibn Shalaan, Djemal Pasha, Emir Feisal, Francis Xavier Gordon, Gloria Willoughby, Hassan (Son of the White Wolf), King Hussein, Mitkhal ibn Ali, Musa (Son of the White Wolf), Osman Pasha (Son of the White Wolf), Suleyman the Magnificent, T. E. Lawrence, Yusef (Son of the White Wolf), Zangi Khan | $50 | 1936 |
| Sons of the Hawk | "Country of the Knife" is an El Borak short story by Robert E. Howard. It was originally published in the August 1936 issue of the pulp magazine Complete Stories. It was sold for $120.00 to Street & Smith by Binder… | Abdullah (son of Nureddin), Achmet (Sons of the Hawk), Alafdal Khan, Ali Shah (Sons of the Hawk), Dhira Azrail, Francis Xavier Gordon, Genghis Khan, Hassan (Sons of the Hawk), Muhammad ez Zahir, Nureddin el Aziz, Richard Stockton, Stuart Brent, Suleiman (Sons of the Hawk), Vladimir Jakrovitch, Yar Ali Khan | $120 | 1936 |
| The Vultures of Whapeton | — | Steve Corcoran, John Middleton, Colonel Hopkins, Glory Bland, Bill McNab, Ace Brent, Joel Miller, Buck Gorman | $135 | 1936 |
| Vultures' Sanctuary | 'Vultures’ Sanctuary' exists as an untitled carbon, with at least two drafts that are not much different from the final version. Ironically, after being rejected by Fiction House on January 9, 1936, the story's fortunes turned when Byrne, who had… | Bill McClanahan, Checotah Kid, Ellis, Garth Bissett, John Garrison, Judith Ellis, Red Emmett, Slip Ratner, Stark Campbell, Wolf Wilson | $ ? | 1936 |
| Weary Pilgrims on the Road | Pilgrims to the Pecos is one of Robert E. Howard's humorous Westerns featuring the towering, temperamental mountain man Breckinridge Elkins. Sold to Action Stories on October 8, 1935, for $60, it was originally titled Weary Pilgrims on the Road. Set… | Bearfield Buckner, Betty, Breckinridge Elkins, Breckinridge Elkins’s mother, Cap’n Kidd, George Warren, George Warren’s sister, Gomez, Gonzales Zamora, Jack Richardson, Jim Dornley, Joe Richardson, Joshua Richardson, Ned Richardson, Ouachita Elkins, Roarin' Bill Elkins, Sterling Price, Tom, Tom Harrigan | $60 | 1936 |
| Dig Me No Grave | “Dig Me No Grave” is a horror story with occult and supernatural elements, generally associated with Howard’s Cthulhu Mythos material. The catalogue records a sale of $100. It appeared in Weird Tales in 1937, after Howard’s death.The story is narrated… | Ahriman, John Conrad, John Grimlan, Kathulos of Egypt, Kirowan, Satan, Yog-Sothoth | $100 | 1937 |
| Knife-River Prodigal | Knife-River Prodigal. Featuring Buckner J. Grimes. | Bill Grimes, Buckner J. Grimes, Buckner J. Grimes’s father, Joe Clanton, Joe Donnelly, Miss Joan, Old Man Garfield, Old Man Gordon, Ranger Kirby, Tunk Reynolds, William Hyrkimer Hawkins | $ ? | 1937 |
| Murderer's Grog | Murderer's Grog is a Wild Bill Clanton story that was published under Howard's pseudonym Sam Walser. The Kline Agency received the story on April 27, 1936, and circa May 1936 Otto Binder sold it to Trojan for $27. | Baber Ali Khan, Mirza Pasha, Musa, Sonya Ormanoff, Wild Bill Clanton, Yar Abdullah, Yussef Jehungir | $27 | 1937 |
| Sharp's Gun Serenade | — | Bill Glanton, Breckinridge Elkins, Cap’n Kidd, Jack Sprague, Joshua Braxton, Miss Devon | $ ? | 1937 |
| Iron Men | Howard completed the first version of Iron Men (draft a) in March or April 1929 and sent it to Fight Stories, where it was apparently considered too long. He produced two progressively condensed drafts, b and c; draft c was… | Ace Brannigan, Bat Mulcahy, Battling Nelson, Bob Fitzsimmons, De Forest, Flash Sullivan, Frankie Grogan, Gene Tunney, Gunboat Sloan, Harry Greb, Herrera, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jack Maloney, Jack Slattery, Jackie Finnegan, Jacques Descampo, James J. Corbett, James J. Jeffries, Joe Choynski, Joe Gans, Joe Goddard, Joe Grim, Joe Nogales, John L. Sullivan, Johnny Dundee, Johnny Risko, Johnny Thomas, Johnny Varella, Jose Gonzales, Kid Allison, Kid McCoy, Marjory Walshire, Mike Boden, Mike Brennon, Mike Costigan, Monk Barota, Paolino, Ricardo Diaz, Sailor Slade, Snake Culberson, Soldier Handler, Spike Ganlon, Steve Amber, Steve Costigan, Tom Berg, Tom Flynn, Tom Sharkey, Tommy Feltz, Undelo Boriotta, Whitey Broad, Yon Van Heeren, Young Corbett, Young Firpo, Young Hansen | $200 | — |
| Ring-Tailed Tornado | A Ring-tailed Tornado originated as a Buckner J. Grimes story under the title Ring-Tailed Tornado. The Kline agency received it on April 16, 1936; surviving evidence indicates that someone at the agency later rewrote it into a Breckinridge Elkins story. | Ace Middleton, Betty Wilkinson, Bizz Ridgeway, Brant Hanson, Breckinridge Elkins, Buckner J. Grimes, Bull Harrison, Gloria La Venner, Petah Nocona, Red Croghan, Rudwell Shapeley Jr., Tump Garrison | $24.75 | — |
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