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Sons of Hate

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StateSynopsis 3Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1
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Characters in this exact text

KirbyBrent Kirby — private detective and partner of Butch GormanOn Pagefirst: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 491-492GormanButch Gorman — Kirby's large Texan detective partnerOn Pagefirst: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 491-492Colonel PembrokeColonel John A. Pembroke — wealthy former African adventurer living under the Pembroke identityOn Pagefirst: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 491-492the girlConstance Pembroke — Colonel Pembroke's nieceOn Pagefirst: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 491-492a big negroGobir — giant Soudanese henchman of Kerim AliOn Pagefirst: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 491-492Richard BrandonRichard Stalbridge — English claimant pursuing Pembroke over the stolen African treasureOn Pagefirst: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 491-492

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Synopsis 3 — surviving Howard typescriptHoward synopsis typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessComplete

Physical extent: One-page untitled synopsis covering a later portion of the story and differing from the final narrative.

TSS: 65866

One-page untitled synopsis covering a later portion of the story and differing from the final narrative.

Additional documentary notes

  • Untitled Witness: Synopsis 3 is untitled. (witness level)

Source: The Hardboiled Manuscripts, Volume 2, editorial notes and corresponding text.

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Tales of Weird Menace - Ultimate EditionRestored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

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Published in

The Hardboiled Manuscripts, Volume 2REH Foundation Press2026 (forthcoming)↗