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The Killing of Yellow Donory

Part of The Extermination of Yellow Donory

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Introduction

The Killing of Yellow Donory is the earlier of two surviving drafts written in the early spring of 1929. It develops the same basic story later expanded as The Extermination of Yellow Donory, but differs in detail and represents an earlier stage of Howard’s work on the tale.