First Passage
Early Drafts of Beloved Yarns 
REH Foundation Press
Year :
March 2026  
Book No. : ISBN -13: 9781955446723 (Hardcover)
ISBN -13: 9781955446730 (Trade paperback)
Edition : 1st
Format : Hardcover with dust jacket (6.25 x 9.25 inches)
Trade paperback (6.25 x 9.25 inches)
Pages : xx plus 479
Cover : Gary Gianni
Jim Keegan (design)
Illustrations : Gary Gianni
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Contents
"Foreword / Acknowledgements" by Dennis McHaney
"Introduction" by Dennis McHaney
"Black Vulmea’s Vengeance" (Draft 2)
"The Cairn on the Headland" (Draft 2)
"The Horror from the Mound" (Draft 1)
"Pigeons from Hell" (Draft 3)
"The Hoofed Thing" (Draft 2)
"Old Garfield’s Heart" (Draft 1)
"The Dead Remember" (Draft 1)
"Kings of the Night" (Draft 1)
"The Footfalls Within" (Draft 1)
"Wings in the Night" (Draft 1)
"The Shadow of the Vulture" (Draft 3)
"The Voice of El-Lil" (Draft 1)
"Hawks of Outremer" (Draft 1)
"Son of the White Wolf" (Draft 5)
"Hawk of the Hills" (Draft 3)

Notes
FIRST PASSAGE is a special fundraising volume produced by Dennis McHaney in support of the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas. All earnings from this book go directly to the museum.
All of the drafts in this volume are published here for the first time.
All of the REH stories and portions thereof come from Howard's original typescripts.
As little as possible was done to change the authenticity of the original typescripts.
Occasionally a necessary word was missing and had to be filled in.
In these cases, the word was selected from the first published version of the story.
Additionally, a lot of punctuation required fixing as REH often did not bother with punctuation when writing drafts.



First Passage