The story centers on a feud between two cowboys, Cal Reynolds and Esau Brill, who have hated each other most of their lives. They encounter one another while out riding and a gunfight ensues. They stalk one another from hiding places among the boulders, firing occasional shots over a long period.
“The Man Who Went Back” is an unfinished speculative fiction piece (2700 words), centered on John Pendragon, a man whose destiny is intertwined with a remarkable scientific experiment. This experiment, spearheaded by Professor Jonas Worley, is designed to send individuals back in time, not forward, tapping into the potential of human consciousness and the inherent powers of the universe.
The Last Man. Alternate Title: untitled (The flaming sun of the year 2000 . . .)
In Howard’s following letter to Lovecraft, he responds to the latter’s suggestion that he make use of Kelly in his fiction; “Kelly the conjure-man was quite a character, but I fear I could not do justice to such a theme as you describe”. However, despite Howard’s reticence, Kelly did begin to find a way into his writing.
Incomplete fragment, 300 words.
According to Rusty Burke “Dagon Manor” was obviously a first fumbling attempt at “The Children of the Night.” In just 300 words you have Conrad introduced (but Kirowan unnamed), and two characters named Tavarel and Ketric (“I never liked the fellow. There was something about his bare, high skull, his cold light eyes and thin hooded nose which was unpleasantly reminiscent of a vulture or some foul bird of prey.”). In “The Children of the Night” we’re in Conrad’s study, and we find characters named Taveral (or Taverel, which is how it’s spelled after its first appearance) and Ketrick. Of the latter, we quickly learn that “to me the man always seemed strangely alien.” The only possible conclusion is that “Dagon Manor” was a false start on the story that became “The Children of the Night.”
It would then also belong to the Cthulhu Mythos.
“A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman” is a humorous short story set in a small town in California, revolving around the mischievous antics of a young boy named Tub and his elaborate prank on a local Chinese laundryman named Fe Chu Chong. This was a hand-written high school paper by Howard. Written on December 1st, 1920.
A humorous story set in Canada. Steve Bender and his friend Bill Smalley are trying to trap a bear. Never published in Howard’s lifetime.
The Dark Man and Others is a posthumously-published anthology of fifteen short stories by American author Robert E. Howard, named after his short story “The Dark Man”, and covering the genres of adventure fiction, horror, historical fiction, fantasy, sword and sorcery, weird fiction and the weird West. It was first published in 1963 by Arkham House, and was edited by August Derleth.
Eleven of the stories had previously been published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, and one each in Argosy, Oriental Stories and Strange Tales.
The All-Around Magazine was a fanzine published by Smith; the covers and page 3 are shown.
“So Far the Poet…” is a series of handwritten notes Smith made in preparing to write a biography of Howard for Jonathan Bacon.
Weird Tales 1973 Fall. Contains THE MAN ON THE GROUND. is a short story by Robert Ervin Howard where two men are fighting a final duel. First published in Weird Tales 1933 July. It is a brief short story (under 2200 words) set in Texas about two men (Cal Reynolds & Esau Brill) who have been feuding for so long that no one really knows how their feud began.
