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Introduction
This is Howard’s surviving untitled fragment later used as the basis for Black Eons. The fragment is a separate textual state from Robert M. Price’s posthumous completion.
Characters in this exact text
BrillBrill — archaeological companion of James Allison in the fragment beginning “Beneath the glare of the sun…”; unrelated to Jim BrillOn Page6 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard — Untitled Fragment, supplied PDF pp. 338–339AllisonJames Allison — modern Texan narrator who remembers multiple past livesOn Page4 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard — Untitled Fragment, supplied PDF pp. 338–339Von JunztVon Junzt — fictional author of Nameless Cults in The Children of the NightMentioned2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard — Untitled Fragment, supplied PDF pp. 338–339
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.
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. 338–339; Notes on the Original Howard Texts, pp. 340–351.