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Exact textual statePrimary Text

Red Thunder

Part of Red Thunder

StateFinished / professionalSurviving witnesses2TSS catalogue units2Catalogue rolePrimary / default
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

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

SolomonKing Solomon — biblical king and magician invoked in the legend of the imprisoned HorrorMentioned2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 108SatanSatan — supernatural figure invoked by comparison in The Last Man.On Page5 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 108moon-mare’s foalthe moon-mare’s foal in Red Thunder — individual magical foal ridden in the infernal vision of Red ThunderOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 108

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.

Xerox of original typescript — TSS 10782Xerox of Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessIncomplete

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 10782

Xerox of original (XO) source code; retained as a photocopy witness rather than masquerading as the surviving original sheet.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 3

Original Howard typescript — TSS 90146Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessIncomplete

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 90146

Original Typescript (OT) source code; retained as an original Howard typescript witness.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 850

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.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 108Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 1 p. 108

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗