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BASTARDS ALL! 

This is a play.


THE BATTLING SAILOR

      Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN


THE BEAST FROM THE ABYSS

BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER

Featuring CONAN

Edited version by L. Sprague de Camp appears in the following places:

BILL SMALLEY AND THE POWER OF THE HUMAN EYE

Alternate Title: THE POWER OF THE HUMAN EYE

BLACK ABYSS

Alternate Title: THE BLACK CITY

An unfinished REH work.
Lin Carter finished it starting with Chapter 3. It is titled "Black Abyss"

THE BLACK BEAR BITES
Alternate Title: BLACK JOHN'S VENGEANCE

The title on a draft is "Black John’s Vengeance."
A titled version is included in a list of REH stories that Kline possessed, titled "The Black Bear Bites."


BLACK CANAAN (Alternate Version)

Likely the original form of the story "Black Canaan" prior to changes made in response to editorial requirements.
The original script was sent to Otis Adelbert Kline in Chicago who forwarded it to Jessica Miller in New York.
No records survive to indicate what magazines the story was submitted to or what editorial requirements, if any, were made on the story.
REH withdrew the script, rewrote it, and resubmitted it to Kline. Kline sent it to WEIRD TALES and it was accepted.



BLACK CANAAN

Voted best story in its original Weird Tales appearance by the fans.

THE BLACK CITY

Featuring KULL

Alternate Title: BLACK ABYSS

BLACK COLOSSUS

Featuring CONAN

Edited version by L. Sprague de Camp appears in the following places:

BLACK COUNTRY
Alternate Title: BLACK-COUNTRY

BLACK EONS

Alternate Title: Untitled Story ("Beneath the glare of the sun . . .")


BLACK HOUND OF DEATH


BLACK JOHN'S VENGEANCE
Alternate Title: THE BLACK BEAR BITES


THE BLACK MOON

Featuring STEVE HARRISON

Cross Plains Library has an original draft of this story.


THE BLACK STONE, early draft

THE BLACK STONE

THE BLACK STRANGER

Alternate Title: SWORDS OF THE RED BROTHERHOOD
Alternate Title: THE TREASURE OF TRANICOS

Featuring CONAN

Cross Plains Library has an original draft of this story.

"The Black Stranger" was originally written as a Conan story that was not accepted. 
REH rewrote it into a Black Vulmea story ("Swords of the Red Brotherhood"), which was also not accepted.
L Sprague de Camp rewrote the original Conan story into a different Conan story ("The Treasure of Tranicos").
For publication in Fantasy Magazine #1, the story was abridged, edited by L Sprague de Camp, and re-written further by Lester del Rey. 

Hence, there are 3 different versions of this story, "The Black Stranger" (REH1), "Swords of the Red Brotherhood" (REH2), and "The Treasure of Tranicos" (REH/LSDC).

"The Treasure of Tranicos" appears in the following places:
 

THE BLACK STRANGER, Synopsis A

Featuring CONAN



THE BLACK STRANGER, Synopsis B

Featuring CONAN

BLACK TALONS

Alternate Title: TALONS IN THE DARK

BLACK VULMEA'S VENGEANCE

Featuring TERENCE VULMEA

BLACK WIND BLOWING

BLADES FOR FRANCE

Featuring AGNES DE CHASTILLON

BLADES OF THE BROTHERHOOD (1)

Alternate Title: THE BLUE FLAME OF VENGEANCE

BLADES OF THE BROTHERHOOD (2)

Featuring MALACHI GRIM

 This story was originally written in 1929, titled "The Blue Flame of Vengeance", and featured Solomon Kane.
REH failed to sell it, perhaps because it had no weird element, and hence WEIRD TALES would likely not take it.  
REH rewrote it in 1932, changing the hero to Malachi Grim, changing the title to "Blades of the Brotherhood", and shortening the story by a couple of pages.
There is no record to show to which magazines this story was offered, if any.

THE BLOCK

THE BLOND GODDESS OF BAL-SAGOTH

Alternate Title: THE GODS OF BAL-SAGOTH

THE BLOOD OF BELSHAZZAR

Featuring CORMAC FITZGEOFFREY

BLOOD OF THE GODS

Featuring EL BORAK

THE BLOODSTAINED GOD

Alternate Title: THE CURSE OF THE CRIMSON GOD
Alternate Title: THE TRAIL OF THE BLOOD-STAINED GOD

Originally a Kirby O'Donnell story titled "The Trail of the Blood-Stained God."
It was re-written by L. Sprague de Camp into a Conan story titled "The Bloodstained God."

 

BLOODSTONES AND EBONY

The sixth in a collection of prose poems that REH typed all together.

When first published, Glenn Lord used the title of the first work ("Etchings in Ivory") as the title for the collection.
The six prose poems are: "Etchings in Ivory," "Flaming Marble," "Skulls and Orchids,"
"Medallions in The Moon," "The Gods That Men Forget," and "Bloodstones and Ebony."
"Etchings in Ivory" has the alternate title "Proem."

BLOW THE CHINKS DOWN!

Alternate Title: THE HOUSE OF PERIL

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN

THE BLUE FLAME OF DEATH
by Robert E. Howard 

Alternate Title: THE BLUE FLAME OF VENGEANCE

"The Blue Flame of Death" is the title of an earlier draft of "The Blue Flame of Vengeance." Refer to "The Blue Flame of Vengeance" for appearances.

THE BLUE FLAME OF VENGEANCE

Alternate Title: THE BLUE FLAME OF DEATH
Alternate Title: BLADES OF THE BROTHERHOOD (1)

Featuring SOLOMON KANE

Howard originally titled the first draft of "The Blue Flame of Vengeance" as "The Blue Flame of Death." The protagonist is Solomon Kane and it was written in 1929.
It failed to sell, perhaps because it has no weird element, so WEIRD TALES would likely not have taken it, though there is no record of which magazines received submissions, if any.

Howard rewrote the story in 1932. changing the hero to Malachi Grim and the title to "Blades of the Brotherhood," and shortening the story by a couple of pages.
This version, with the hero's name changed back to Kane, was finally published by Donald Grant in RED SHADOWS (1968).

The Malachi Grim version was first published by the REH Foundation as a transcript in September 2007 and in its book PIRATE ADVENTURES (2013).  
John Pocsik rewrote the Kane version, adding a weird element, and published it in the Arkham House anthology OVER THE EDGE (1964).

BLUE RIVER BLUES

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN


BOOKMAN AND BOOKS
article

BOOT-HILL PAYOFF
by Robert E. Howard & Robert Enders Allen

Alternate Title: THE LAST RIDE

This story is a collaboration with Chandler Whipple. Whipple's pen-name is Robert Enders Allen.
Whipple attempted to write the story, but got stuck and couldn't figure out what to do for an ending.
His agent suggested letting REH finish it.  REH did finish it and they split the profits 50/50.
Chapters 1-6 are by Chandler Whipple, the rest is by REH.
 

THE BORE OF THE COWED

A BOY, A BEEHIVE, AND A CHINAMAN

The first page appears in The Dark Barbarian.

BRACHEN THE KELT

Featuring JAMES ALLISON

In the published appearances, it is "Brachen."
In the original untitled typescript, the character is called "Brachan."

BRAN MAK MORN

Alternate Title: untitled synopsis "The story of a forgotten age . . ."

Featuring BRAN MAK MORN

Synopsis only, "The story of a forgotten age . . ."

BRAN MAK MORN: A PLAY

Featuring BRAN MAK MORN

THE BRAND OF SATAN

6200 words, unfinished

THE BRAZEN PEACOCK

BREED OF BATTLE

Alternate Title: THE FIGHTIN'EST PAIR
Alternate Title: SAMPSON HAD A SOFT SPOT

Featuring  STEVE COSTIGAN

BROTHERLY ADVICE

Featuring THE SONORA KID

THE BULL DOG BREED

Alternate Title: YOU GOT TO KILL A BULLDOG

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN

BY THE LAW OF THE SHARK

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN

BY THIS AXE I RULE!

Featuring KULL

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