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The Abbey is a fragment of a story that probably were never finished by Howard. It was published for the first time in Fantasy Crossroads in 1975.

Collected from Damon C. Sasser’s blog here is a 10-round boxing match, or rather an interview regarding Fists of Iron and how it came to be. Patrice Louinet, Chris Gruber, and Mark Finn go 10 rounds answering questions.

Robert E. Howard created many fictional characters. Most known is perhaps Conan, but there are so many more interesting men and women. I will try to add some information about them on this page.

Breckinridge Elkins is a giant grizzly bear of a man, well over 6 feet tall. So iron is his constitution that he can drink jug after jug of moonshine without serious inebriation.

Although incredibly strong and tough, the gent from Bear Creek isn’t terribly smart, and is easily fooled. Discovering that he has been tricked is liable to make him mad, however, and an angry Breckinridge Elkins has been the end to many a villainous scheme.

Article by Glenn Lord; “The Writing Game”. A history of REH’s jobs & sales of stories & poems to pulp markets first published in REH: Lone Star Fictioneer, Vol. 1, #1 (ed. Byron L. Roark; Nemedian Chronicles, Kansas City, Kan., spring, 1975)

Glenn Lord (November 17, 1931 – December 31, 2011) was an American literary agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard’s life and writings.