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"Finding a
Home" by Paul Herman (Introduction)
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Pictures in the Fire
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"For
the Love of Barbara Allen"
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"Two
Against Tyre"
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"The Voice of El-Lil"
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"Spear and Fang"
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"Black Canaan" (Early
Version)
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"The
Cobra in the Dream"
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"The Ghost in the Doorway"
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"A
Thunder of Trumpets" by REH and Frank Thurston Torbett
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"The
Shadow of Doom"
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"The Haunted
Hut"
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"Under
the Baobab Tree"
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"The Hyena"
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| "Black
Country" |
Fragments,
Drafts, and other Esoterica
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"Nekht
Semerkeht"
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Untitled, "As he approached . . ."
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"The Abbey"
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"Age Lasting Love" (with
outline)
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"The Devil’s
Woodchopper"
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"The Door
of the World"
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"Redflame"
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"Serpent
Vines"
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Untitled Synopsis ("Black Canaan")
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"The Isle
of the Eons"
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"The Brand of Satan"
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"Dagon Manor"
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"Dear Mrs. Shane"
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"Fate Is the Killer"
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"Incongruity"
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"The Jade
God"
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"The Slayer"
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"Through the Ages"
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"The Wings of the Bat"
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Untitled, " ‘You,’ said Shifty Griddle
. . ."
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Untitled, "Better that a man should
remain . . ."
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Untitled, "From the black, bandit-haunted
mountains . . ."
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Untitled, "I’m writing this . . ."
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Untitled, "Old Man Jacobson . . ."
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Untitled, "The matter seemed so obvious
. . ."
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Untitled, "The next day I was sluggish
. . ."
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"Songs of Bastards"
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"Bastards All!"
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"Pictures
in the Fire"
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"The Dominant Male"
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"Miss High Hat"
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"Etched in Ebony"
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Untitled, "Arrange, Madame, arrange!"
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"Letter of a Chinese Student"
(1)
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"Letter of a Chinese Student"
(2)
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"For the Honor of the School"
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Poetry
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"A
Rattlesnake Sings in the Grass" (poem)
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"The Masque"
(poem)
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"A High Land"
(poem)
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"Whence
Cometh Erlik?" (poem)
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"Lost Nisapur"
(poem)
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"Abhorrent
Gods" (poem)
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"A Song of Praise"
(poem)
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"The Tale of Glory"
(poem)
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"The Race
Without Name" (poem)
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"Let Me Dream by a Silver Stream"
(poem)
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"My Animal Instinct"
(poem)
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"The Wind Blows"
(1, poem)
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"The Wind
Blows" (2, poem)
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Notes
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Edited
by Paul Herman
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All the texts were obtained
from Howard's original manuscripts, typescripts, carbons, or transcripts
thereof, with the following exceptions:
"Etched in Ebony" from The Junto, September
1929
"The Hyena" from Weird Tales,
March 1928
"Spear and Fang" from Weird
Tales, July 1925
"A Thunder of Trumpets" from Weird Tales,
September 1938
"The Voice of El-Lil" from Oriental
Stories, October - November 1930
"Letter of a Chinese Student" (1)
"Letter of a Chinese Student" (2)
"For the Honor of the School"
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First appearance:
"A Song of Praise" (poem)
"The Tale of Glory" (poem)
"The Race Without Name" (poem)
"Let Me Dream by a Silver Stream" (poem)
"The Wind Blows" (1, poem)
"The Wind Blows" (2, poem) |
First printing:
200 copies
Second printing: 100 copies
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