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The Tale the Dead Slaver Told

Alternate title:Dead Slave’s Tale, The
2textual states3Characters
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Opening lines

Dim and grey was the silent sea;Dim was the crescent moon.From the jungle back of the shadowed seaCame a tom-tom’s eery rune,

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Characters in this Work

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the dead slaverslaver-narrator recounting the doomed voyage2 textual statesthe man-o-warwarship that attempts to bar the slaver’s way1 textual statethe slave shipunnamed slaver dragged under off Calabar2 textual states

Publication appearances

Night ImagesThe Morning Star Press1976↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. HowardREH Foundation PressJanuary 2009↗The Horror Stories of Robert E. HowardSubterranean Press2010↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume TwoREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗