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Old Garfield's Heart

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Catalogue facts

Published dateDecember 1933
WrittenJune 1933

Characters in this exact text

Doc BlaineDoc Blaine — doctor/narrator figure in Old Garfield’s HeartOn Pagefirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434Ewen CameronEwen Cameron — historical Scottish soldier/explorer invoked in Garfield’s taleMentionedfirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434Ghost ManGhost Man — Lipan priest/chief who gives Garfield the mysterious heartMentionedfirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434Jack KirbyJack Kirby — named figure in Old Garfield’s HeartOn Pagefirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434old Jim GarfieldJim Garfield — old frontiersman in Old Garfield’s HeartOn Pagefirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434Joe BraxtonJoe Braxton — man caring for Garfield at his bedsideOn Pagefirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434the Lipan god whose heart was given to Jim Garfieldthe Lipan god whose heart was given to Jim Garfield — unnamed deity whose still-living heart Ghost Man places in GarfieldMentionedfirst: Western Tales UE pp. 423-434

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

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

https://reh.world/publications/?reh_publication=3086

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (Del Rey, 2008)Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard, supplied Del Rey 2008 PDF, pp. 248–254; Notes on the Original Howard Texts, pp. 340–351.

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The Black Stranger and Other American TalesUniversity of Nebraska Press - Bison BooksApril 2005↗