The Haunted Mountain is a humorous Breckinridge Elkins story later revised and incorporated as Chapter 10 of the novel A Gent from Bear Creek. Robert McIlvaine discusses a possible literary influence on the story in “The Influence of Joseph A. Altsheler’s Apache Gold on Howard’s ‘The Haunted Mountain’,” published in The Dark Man in December 2015.

This row is a detailed plot summary currently stored as a second Introduction for The Haunted Mountain. It should be reviewed for relocation to a Summary/spoiler section rather than approved as competing Work-level introductory prose.