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Shadow Thing

Part of Shadow Thing

StateUntitled draftSurviving 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.

priestthe good priest — priest who struggles to raise the Shadow Thing toward goodOn Page2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 2 p. 60thingthe Shadow Thing — titular shape-changing beingOn Page5 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 2 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.

Xerox of original typescript — TSS 15332Xerox of Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 15332

Xerox of original (XO) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 36–36

Xerox/reproduction witness — Shadow ThingXerox of Howard manuscript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 xerox/reproduction TSS item

TSS: 15332

Xerox/reproduction evidence of the poem embedded in an untitled source text.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Poetry working list · Shadow Thing (v) (d1) · TSS 15332

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. 2 p. 60Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 2 p. 60

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume TwoREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗