REH’s Writings

Exact textual stateDraft

The Horror from the Mound — Draft 1

StateDraft 1Surviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units15

Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

Characters in this exact text

Don SantiagoDon Santiago de Valdez — mysterious nobleman taken aboard de Estrada’s shipOn Page5 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: First Passage p. 76 Hernando de EstradaHernando de Estrada — leader of the 1545 Spanish expeditionOn Page11 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: First Passage p. 63 Juan LopezJuan Lopez — neighbor who knows the mound traditionOn Page41 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: First Passage p. 60 Young Juan ZavillaJuan Zavilla — young man in de Estrada’s expeditionOn Page2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: First Passage p. 75 Porforio LopezPorfirio Lopez — ancestor of Juan Lopez who marched with de EstradaOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: First Passage p. 63 Steve BrillSteve Brill — rancher/protagonist in The Horror from the MoundOn Page79 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: First Passage p. 60

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.

Draft 1 — surviving Howard typescriptHoward typescript

Extent15 pagesCompletenessComplete

Physical extent: 15 pages / 15 TSS catalogue units

TSS: 50327–50332, 64639, 50334–50335, 50337–50342

Original typescript (OT).

Additional documentary notes

Untitled Witness: The spreadsheet records this surviving witness as untitled. (witness level)

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Complete List · Horror from the Mound, The (d1) · TSS 50327–50332, 64639, 50334–50335, 50337–50342 · spreadsheet rows 7198–7212