REH’s Writings

699 Works

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1109 A.D.

1109 A.D. consists of notes Howard prepared while working on historical fiction for Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine in the early 1930s.1 textual state0 Characters1 publicationExplore Work →Short Story

44-40 or Fight

44-40 or Fight is a lost short story. Howard submitted it to Western Story in 1924, but it was never published. The title and submission information survive through a letter Howard wrote to Tevis Clyde Smith circa February 1929.1 textual state0 Characters0 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Abbey

Robert E. Howard's probably unfinished story "The Abbey" first saw publication in the Fantasy Crossroads fanzine in 1975. This fragment reveals Howard's ability to craft a haunting atmosphere and intriguing narrative, centered around an ancient abbey with a mysterious past and sinister occurrences. Written in the early 20th century, the tale blends…2 textual states0 Characters9 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Adventures in Arabia

Adventures in Arabia is a brief item believed in the legacy catalogue to be connected with Howard’s school work. The current source packet does not provide enough evidence for a more specific description.1 textual state0 Characters3 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

After the Game

After the Game was written for The Yellow Jacket, the student newspaper of Howard Payne College, and published in Volume XIII, No. 7 on October 27, 1926. The short play follows college students returning from a football game and is built around comic dialogue and slapstick.1 textual state0 Characters10 publicationsExplore Work →Fragment

Age Lasting Love

Age Lasting Love is an unfinished fragment framed by a conversation about love and a story told by the wanderer La Fell. It was first published in French in La Tombe du dragon (1990) and first appeared in English in The New Howard Reader #7 (Spring 2000).3 textual states0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

AHA! Or the Mystery of the Queen's Necklace

AHA! Or the Mystery of the Queen’s Necklace is a detective parody featuring Hawkshaw and the theft of the Queen’s necklace. Howard published it in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School newspaper, on February 15, 1923.1 textual state0 Characters15 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Alleys of Darkness

Publication bylinePatrick ErvinAlleys of Darkness developed from a Sailor Steve Costigan story into a Dennis Dorgan version and was published in the January 1934 issue of The Magic Carpet Magazine under the credited name Patrick Ervin. The catalogue records a $54.00 sale and Howard’s share as $45.90. The story is also associated with the…4 textual states16 Characters32 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Alleys of Peril

Publication bylineMark AdamAlleys of Peril is a Steve Costigan boxing story first published in the January 1931 issue of Fight Stories. Howard developed it from an earlier Mike O’Brien form after a rejection, and the catalogue records $80.00 in income. A later publication used the title Leather Lightning and the byline Mark Adam.Also published as:Leather Lightning4 textual states21 Characters17 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Alleys of Singapore

Alleys of Singapore is a Dennis Dorgan title/form associated with Alleys of Darkness and is credited to Patrick Ervin.1 textual state0 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Novel

Almuric

Almuric is Howard’s planetary-romance novel about Esau Cairn, a man alienated from modern America who is transported to the savage world of Almuric. It was serialized posthumously in three parts in Weird Tales beginning in May 1939 and first published in book form by Ace Books in 1964. Esau is the name…1 textual state21 Characters71 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Altar and the Scorpion

The Altar and the Scorpion was written in 1928 and was not published during Howard’s lifetime. Farnsworth Wright rejected it for Weird Tales. It first appeared in the Lancer volume King Kull in 1967, edited by L. Sprague de Camp.2 textual states8 Characters53 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Ambition by Moonlight

Ambition by Moonlight was first published in The Junto, Volume 1, Number 10, in January 1929 under the title Ambition in the Moonlight.2 textual states3 Characters6 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Apache Mountain War

The Apache Mountain War is a 1935 Breckinridge Elkins story first published in Action Stories in December 1935. At least four drafts are known, making the story unusually well represented in surviving developmental material.6 textual states26 Characters32 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Aphorism: The Girl that is a Beauty

The Girl that is a Beauty is a single-sentence typescript item. Its first known publication was in the Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter, Volume 7, Number 4. The supplied evidence does not establish why Howard typed the sentence.1 textual state0 Characters1 publicationExplore Work →Essay

Apparition of Josiah Wilbarger

Apparition of Josiah Wilbarger is based on the historical story of Texas settler Josiah Wilbarger. Howard’s surviving typescript was untitled; a related title, The Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger, comes from the Kline inventory. The piece was first published in 1972 in The West as Apparition of Josiah Wilbarger, where the editor…3 textual states6 Characters12 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Atavist

Unfinished story. 4800 words written.2 textual states16 Characters5 publicationsExplore Work →Essay

An Autobiography

An Autobiography is a school paper dated November 29, 1921 in which Howard briefly recounts his early life and his family’s moves through Texas. The paper received a grade of “B”.2 textual states3 Characters7 publicationsExplore Work →Play

Bastards All!

is a bawdy comic play or parody preserved in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith from circa March 1929. Set largely around a London tavern, it follows a group of deliberately grotesque characters through schemes of disguise, seduction, jealousy, and deception. The piece is also associated with the title All the Brothers…2 textual states0 Characters9 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Battling Sailor

In this fragment or incomplete story called "The Battling Sailor," Steve Costigan recounts a boxing match against Kid Allison, a formidable and cunning opponent.2 textual states8 Characters8 publicationsExplore Work →Essay

The Beast from the Abyss

The Beast from the Abyss is a reflective and contemplative piece by Robert E. Howard, shared in a letter (#268) to H.P. Lovecraft, circa November 1933. It delves deep into Howard's observations and philosophies regarding cats, their nature, and their relationship with humanity and the environment. Unlike a traditional short story with…2 textual states6 Characters23 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Beyond the Black River

Beyond the Black River is a Conan story set on the frontier beyond Aquilonia’s Black River, where settlers and soldiers face a Pictish offensive. It was first published in two parts in the May and June 1935 issues of Weird Tales. The story was republished in the collections King Conan (Gnome Press,…3 textual states15 Characters179 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Bill Smalley and the Power of the Human Eye

Bill Smalley and the Power of the Human Eye is a humorous adventure featuring Bill Smalley and Steve Bender in the Canadian wilderness. It was not published during Howard’s lifetime; the legacy record notes submissions to both Adventure and Western Story.2 textual states0 Characters4 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Abyss

Black Abyss is an unfinished Howard work later completed by Lin Carter. Howard’s surviving material ends before Carter’s continuation, which begins with chapter 3.3 textual states8 Characters46 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Black Bear Bites

Considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The story was sent to Argosy after having been rejected by both Adventure and Far East. it was later rejected by Argosy as well.3 textual states7 Characters24 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Canaan

Black Canaan is a Southern horror story in which Kirby Buckner returns to the isolated Canaan region and confronts the threat posed by Saul Stark. Kline’s records document an earlier version and a later rewrite before the story was accepted by Weird Tales; it was first published in the June 1936 issue.…6 textual states9 Characters56 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Colossus

Black Colossus is a Conan story in which Conan enters the service of Khoraja and is drawn into its war against Natohk, “the Veiled One.” It was first published in Weird Tales. The legacy catalogue records $130.00 in income for the Work. This story formed part of the basis for the later…5 textual states19 Characters163 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Country

Black Country is a West African horror story. The legacy record says it was rejected by at least Thrills of the Jungle Magazine and remained unpublished until 1973, when it appeared in W. Paul Ganley’s WeirdBook Six. Black-Country is also recorded as a title form.3 textual states0 Characters11 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Eons

Black Eons is a posthumous completion built from an unfinished, untitled Robert E. Howard fragment; Robert M. Price supplied the completion and title. Howard’s surviving fragment should therefore remain distinct from the later completed work.2 textual states3 Characters23 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Hound of Death

Black Hound of Death is a horror story set in the Deep South pine woods and featuring Kirby Garfield, Richard Brent, Tope Braxton and Adam Grimm. The legacy record says Howard’s agent received the story on August 16, 1934; it was first published in Weird Tales in November 1936.&nbsp First published in…6 textual states9 Characters39 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

The Black Moon

Manuscript bylineRobert E. Howard"The Black Moon" is a captivating detective story by Robert E. Howard, featuring the character Steve Harrison, a tough and savvy detective. The narrative is steeped in an exotic setting that blends mystery with a touch of the supernatural, typical of Howard's ability to intertwine the gritty realism of detective fiction with…3 textual states9 Characters9 publicationsExplore Work →Short Story

The Black Stone

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The Black Stranger

The Black Stranger is a Conan story written in the 1930s but not published during Howard’s lifetime. After failing to sell it, Howard rewrote the story as the Terence Vulmea pirate tale Swords of the Red Brotherhood, which likewise remained unpublished in his lifetime. L. Sprague de Camp later reworked the Conan…12 textual states17 Characters59 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Vulmea's Vengeance

Black Vulmea’s Vengeance is one of Howard’s two stories about the Irish pirate Terence “Black” Vulmea. It first appeared in Golden Fleece in 1938. Terence Vulmea, aka Black Vulmea, was born a 17th-century Irish peasant and carried his vendetta against the English oppressors of his country to the waters of the Caribbean.6 textual states16 Characters48 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Black Wind Blowing

Black Wind Blowing is a mystery-adventure story published in the June 1936 issue of Thrilling Mystery. The legacy record says Binder sold it to Street & Smith for $40.00 circa April 1936; the catalogue likewise records $40.00 in income.4 textual states8 Characters32 publicationsExplore Work →Writing

Blades for France

Blades for France is one of Howard’s Dark Agnes de Chastillon stories, set in sixteenth-century France. Howard’s Dark Agnes material was not published until after his death.4 textual states14 Characters23 publicationsExplore Work →