The Horror from the Mound

Howard wrote one of the first “Weird Western” stories ever created, “The Horror from the Mound,” published in the May 1932 issue of Weird Tales. This genre acted as a bridge between his early “weird” stories (a contemporary term for horror and fantasy) and his later straight western tales.

There is a secret held inside an Indian burial mound, only a few know the secret and they have been sworn to secrecy… until someone became greedy, deciding that there must be treasure hidden in the mound…

Published in:

• WEIRD TALES VOLUME 19 NUMBER 5, Popular Fiction Publishing Company, May 1932
• SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, Arkham House, 1946
• WOLFSHEAD, Lancer, 1968
• THE DARK OF THE SOUL, Tower, 1970
• CHI DI VAMPIRO FERISCE…, Casa Editrice La Tribuna, November 1972 (Italian)  
• WOLFSHEAD, Lancer, 1972 (n.d.)
• FEH 5: DE STEM VAN EL-LIL,  A. W. Bruna & Zoon, 1972 (Dutch)
• CHAMBER OF CHILLS #2, Marvel Comics, January 1973 (titled “The Monster from the Mound”)
• SKULL-FACE OMNIBUS, Neville Spearman, 1974
• MASTERS OF TERROR #1, Marvel Comics, July 1975 (graphic adaptation)  
• SKULL-FACE OMNIBUS, Neville Spearman, 1975
• SKULL-FACE OMNIBUS, Volume 1, Panther, 1976
• HISTOIRES ANGLO-SAXONNES DE VAMPIRES,  Libraries des Champ-Elysees, April 1978 (French)
• SKULL-FACE, Editrice Nord, October 1978 (Italian)  
• CHI DI VAMPIRO FERISCE… EINSTEIN PERDUTO, Casa Editrice La Tribuna, April 1979 (Italian)  
• WOLFSHEAD, Bantam, 1979
• VAMPIRE, Severn House, 1985
• VAMPIRE: CHILLING TALES OF THE UNDEAD, W. H. Allen (Target Books), 1985
• LE TERTRE MAUDIT, NeO, November 1985 (French)
• 剣と魔法の物語 (KEN TO MAHŌ NO MONOGATARI), Sonorama Bunko, December 1986 (Japanese)
• ROSTRO DE CALAVERA, ST, 1987 (Spanish)
• LE TERTRE MAUDIT, Fleuve Noir, October 1991 (French)
• WEIRD VAMPIRE TALES, Gramercy Press, August 1992
• SKULL FACE, Editrice Nord, March 1993 (Italian)  
• OUTOJA TARINOITA 5, Jalava, 1993 (Finnish) 
• CIEN BESTII, Wydawnictwo PiK, 1994 (Polish)  
• TRAILS IN DARKNESS, Baen, June 1996 (restored text)
• 吸血鬼伝説 ドラキュラの末裔たち (KYŪKETSUKIDENSETSU DORAKYURA NO MATSUEI-TACHI) (LEGEND OF THE VAMPIRE: DRACULA’S DESCENDANTS/SCIONS), Hara Shobō, February 1997 (Japanese)
• CURSE OF THE OCEAN, North-West, 1998 (Russian) 
• STORIE DELL’ORRORE, Newton Compton Editori , July 1999 (Italian)  
• ROBERT E. HOWARD’S HORROR, Cross Plains Comics, August 2000 (graphic adaptation)   
• AED TÄIS HIRMU, Fantaasia, March 2003 (Estonian)  
• THE BLACK STRANGER AND OTHER AMERICAN TALES, Bison Books, April 2005  
• PEOPLE OF THE DARK, Wildside Press, July 2005
• THE WEIRD WRITINGS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD Volume 1, Girasol Collectables, January 2006
• PEOPLE OF THE DARK, Wildside Press, June 2006 
• THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MONSTERS, Carroll & Graf, May 2007
• THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MONSTERS, Robinson, June 2007
• THE HAUNTER OF THE RING & OTHER TALES, Wordsworth Editions, September 2007
• THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND, AND BLACK TALONS, Dodo Press, February 2008
• THE HAUNTER OF THE RING & OTHER TALES, Wordsworth Editions, 2008 
• ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER V2N2, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Summer 2008 (typescript)
• THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, Del Rey, October 2008 
• THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, Tantor Media, Inc., March 2010 (audio)
• VOLK DER FINSTERNIS, Festa Verlag, March 2010 (German) 
• WIELKA KSIĘGA POTWORÓW. TOM 1, Fabryka Słów, July 2010 (Polish)
• KROK ZE TMY, Albatros Media,  2010 (Czech)
• THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, Subterranean Press, March 2011 
• SHADOWS OVER TEXAS: THREE PULP FICTION HORROR CLASSICS, Nuelow Games, December 2011 
• GRUSELKABINETT – FOLGE 60: DER GRABHÜGEL, Lübbe Audio, March 2012 (audio, German) 
• WOLFSHEAD AND OTHER STORIES, Jame-Books, August 2012
• LES OMBRES DE CANAAN, Bragelonne, February 2013 (French) 
• ROBERT E. HOWARD’S COLLECTED WORKS, Jame-Books, February 2013  
• WESTERN TALES, REH Foundation Press, December 2013 
• LES OMBRES DE CANAAN. LES PIGEONS DE L’ENFER, Bragelonne, February 2014 (French) 
• THE HORROR FROM THE MOUND, eStar Books, November 2014  
• I FIGLI DELLA NOTTE. RACCONTI DELL’ORRORE VOLUME 1, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, March 2015 (Italian)    
• THE SHADOW KINGDOM AND OTHER WEIRD TALES, Ulwencreutz Media, October 2015 
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS VOLUME 26: VAMPIRE CLASSICS, Eureka Productions, May 2017 (graphic adaptation)   
• БОГИ БАЛ-САГОТА (THE GODS OF BAL-SAGOTH), AST, November 2017 (Russian)   
• DECA NOĆI I DRUGE PRIČE, Filip Višnjić, December 2019 (Serbian)  
• LES ROIS DE LA NUIT, Le Livre de Poche, November 2020 (French)  
• THE NECRONOMICON: TALES OF ELDRITCH HORROR FROM THE MASTERS OF THE GENRE, Arcturus Publishing, August 2021
• WEST STREGATO, Salirandra, October 2021 (Italian)    
• THE HAUNTER OF THE RING (NECRONOMICON BOXED SET), Arcturus Publishing, November 2021