Story Index

THE RETURN OF SKULLFACE, FAX, 1977 (completed by Richard A. Lupoff)
THE RETURN OF SKULLFACE, FAX, 1977 (Limited Edition) (completed by Richard A. Lupoff)

THE RETURN OF THE SORCERER

BICENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO REH, Hamilton, 1976
THE NEW HOWARD READER #3, Marek, November 1998
ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER V4N2, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Summer 2010 (typescript)
TALES OF WEIRD MENACE, REH Foundation Press, January 2011

REVENGE

UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN 1, Les Grands Anciens, October 1990
THE LAST OF THE TRUNK OCH BREV I URVAL, Paradox Entertainment, March 2007
THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF REH VOL. 1: 1923-1929, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, June 2007
SENTIMENT: AN OLIO OF RARER WORKS, REH Foundation Press, December 2009

REVENGE BY PROXY
by "William Decatur"

Alternate Title: DESERT BLOOD

SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES Volume 16 Number 2, Culture Publications, September 1942

RIDERS BEYOND THE SUNRISE

Alternate Title: untitled story ("Thus, said Tu . . .")

KING KULL, Lancer, 1st, 1967
KING KULL, Lancer, 2nd, 1969
KING KULL, Lancer, 3rd, 1972
KING KULL, Sphere, 1976
TERRA FANTASY #29: HERR VON VALUSIEN, Erich Pabel Verlag KG, December 1976 (German)
TERRA FANTASY #29: HERR VON VALUSIEN, Erich Pabel Verlag KG, August 1979 (German, 2nd printing)
LOST WORLDS, DAW, August 1980

An unfinished REH draft completed by Lin Carter as "Riders Beyond the Sunrise."
Carter's portion begins with the paragraph "Safety!', Kull grunted.", and ends with the paragraph "A feral light", and begins again with "Then come, king".

REH's unfinished draft appears in the following places:

KULL, Bantam, September 1978 (as "untitled story")
KULL, Grant, 1985 (Regular edition) (as "untitled story")
KULL, Grant, 1985 (Limited edition) (as "untitled story")
KULL, Baen, July 1995 (as "untitled story")
KULL: EXILE OF ATLANTIS, Del Rey, October 2006 (as "untitled story")
KULL: EXILE OF ATLANTIS, Science Fiction Book Club, November 2006 (as "untitled story")

RIDERS OF THE SUNSET

Alternate Title: DRUMS OF THE SUNSET

THE RIGHT HAND OF DOOM

Featuring SOLOMON KANE

RED SHADOWS, Grant, 1968 (red binding)
RED SHADOWS, Grant, 1971 (gray binding)
SOLOMON KANE, Centaur, February 1971 (60c)
SOLOMON KANE, Haddock, 1972 (n.d., not authorized)
SOLOMON KANE, Centaur, 2nd, 1974 (nd) ($1.25)
SOLOMON KANE, Centaur, 3rd, 1976 (nd) ("The Illustrated Edition")
TERRA FANTASY 17: RÄCHER DER VERDAMMTEN, Erich Pabel Verlag KG, January 1976 (German)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #13, Marvel Comics, July 1976 (graphic adaptation)
RED SHADOWS, Grant, 1978
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #13, Marvel, date unknown
TERRA FANTASY 17: RÄCHER DER VERDAMMTEN, Erich Pabel Verlag KG, Fall 1978 2nd printing (German)
SOLOMON KANE: SKULLS IN THE STARS, Bantam, December 1978
SOLOMON KANE, Baen, November 1995 (restored text)
THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMON KANE, Wandering Star, 1998
THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMON KANE, Del Rey, July 2004
THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMON KANE, Science Fiction Book Club, February 2005
THE RIGHT HAND OF DOOM AND OTHER TALES OF SOLOMON KANE, Wordsworth Editions, April 2007
THE SAGA OF SOLOMON KANE, Dark Horse Books, July 2009 (graphic adaptation)
THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMON KANE, Tantor Media Inc., January 2010 (audio)

RIGHT HOOK

THE LAST OF THE TRUNK OCH BREV I URVAL, Paradox Entertainment, March 2007
THE LAST OF THE TRUNK, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, November 2007

RINGSIDE TALES

Contains two untitled stories:
untitled story (Marks was a giant.)
untitled story (Science will always beat brute strength.)

THE RIGHT HOOK, VOLUME 1 NUMBER 3, Robert E. Howard, ca. June-July 1925
AUSTIN, VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2, Tom Munnerlyn, September 1992 [Distributed in REHUPA #117]
SENTIMENT: AN OLIO OF RARER WORKS, REH Foundation Press, December 2009

A RINGTAILED TORNADO
by "Patrick Ervin"

Alternate Title: TEXAS JOHN ALDEN
Alternate Title: RING-TAILED TORNADO

Originally a Buckner J. Grimes story titled "Ring-Tailed Tornado."
Rewritten by someone at the Kline agency into a Breckinridge Elkins story.

THE PRIDE OF BEAR CREEK, Grant, 1966
THE PRIDE OF BEAR CREEK, Grant, 1977
HEROES OF BEAR CREEK, Ace, November 1983

RING-TAILED TORNADO

Alternate Title: TEXAS JOHN ALDEN
Alternate Title: A RINGTAILED TORNADO

THE RIOT AT BUCKSNORT

Featuring PIKE BEARFIELD

ARGOSY VOLUME 268 NUMBER 3, Frank A. Munsey Company, October 31, 1936
THE HOWARD REVIEW #2, Dennis McHaney, March 1975
THE KING-SIZE HOWARD REVIEW, Dennis McHaney, 1987
RIOT AT BUCKSNORT AND OTHER WESTERN TALES, Bison Books, April 2005
THE BOOK OF THE HOWARD REVIEW, Dennis McHaney, June 2009
THE BOOK OF THE HOWARD REVIEW, Dennis McHaney, December 2010

THE RIOT AT COUGAR PAW

Featuring BRECKINRIDGE ELKINS

ACTION STORIES Volume 13 Number 4, Fiction House, Inc., October 1935
THE PRIDE OF BEAR CREEK, Grant, 1966
THE SUMMIT COUNTY JOURNAL, September 24; October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; November 5, 12, 19, 26; December 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 1971; January 7, 14, 21, 1972 (18 part serial)
THE PRIDE OF BEAR CREEK, Grant, 1977
HEROES OF BEAR CREEK, Ace, November 1983
THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES, Hermanthis, November 2001
THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES, Wildside Press, November 2003
THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES, Wildside Press, January 2005
RIOT AT BUCKSNORT AND OTHER WESTERN TALES, Bison Books, April 2005
RETURN TO BEAR CREEK, Dennis McHaney, December 2007
THE RIOT AT COUGAR PAW, AND THE ROAD TO BEAR CREEK, Dodo Press, February 2008

THE RIVALS
Authorship uncertain

THE YELLOW JACKET Volume XIII No. 15, Howard Payne College, January 6, 1927
ROBERT E. HOWARD FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER V2N4, Robert E. Howard Foundation, Winter 2008 (Glenn Lord transcription)
SENTIMENT: AN OLIO OF RARER WORKS, REH Foundation Press, December 2009
SCHOOL DAYS IN THE POST OAKS, REH Foundation Press, May 2011

THE ROAD OF AZRAEL

CHACAL #1, Nemedian Chronicles, Winter 1976
THE ROAD OF AZRAEL, Grant, 1979 (Regular edition)
THE ROAD OF AZRAEL, Grant, 1979 (Limited edition)
THE ROAD OF AZRAEL, Bantam,1979
TERRA FANTASY #93: DIE KRIEGER VON ASSUR, Erich Pabel Verlag KG, 1982 (German)
LORD OF SAMARCAND AND OTHER ADVENTURE TALES OF THE OLD ORIENT, Bison Books, April 2005
SWORD WOMAN AND OTHER HISTORICAL ADVENTURES, Del Rey, January 2011

The Cross Plains Library has one original draft of this story and a retyped draft by the Otis Adelbert Kline Agency.

THE ROAD OF THE EAGLES

Alternate Title: CONAN, MAN OF DESTINY
Alternate Title: THE WAY OF THE SWORDS

"The Road of the Eagles" is an REH story and title for which two drafts presently exist.

An early draft that Glenn Lord published in the Donald Grant book ROAD OF AZRAEL as "The Way of the Swords."
A final draft (now at Cross Plains Public Library) that L. Sprague de Camp found and rewrote as "Conan, Man of Destiny," then later published as "The Road of the Eagles."

The L. Sprague de Camp Conan story titled "The Road of the Eagles" appears in:

TALES OF CONAN, Gnome Press, 1955
CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Lancer, 1968
CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Sphere, 1974
CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Prestige, 1977
CONAN DE VRIJBUITER, Zwarte Beertjes, 1977 (Dutch)
CONAN THE FREEBOOTER, Ace, 1981
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #38, Marvel, du
THE CONAN CHRONICLES Volume 1, Sphere, August 1989

As "The Road of the Eagles" from the REH final draft with the original text and title restored.

LORD OF SAMARCAND AND OTHER ADVENTURE TALES OF THE OLD ORIENT, Bison Books, April 2005
SWORD WOMAN AND OTHER HISTORICAL ADVENTURES, Del Rey, January 2011

THE ROAD OF THE MOUNTAIN LION

Alternate Title: GATES OF EMPIRE

THE ROAD TO BEAR CREEK

Featuring BRECKINRIDGE ELKINS

ACTION STORIES Volume 12 Number 11, Fiction House, Inc., December 1934
THE SUMMIT COUNTY JOURNAL, July 18, 24; August 7, 14, 21, 28; September 4, 11, 18, 25; October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; November 6, 1969 (16 part serial, book version)
THE NEW HOWARD READER #6, Marek, October 1999 (magazine version)
THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES, Hermanthis, November 2001
THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES, Wildside Press, November 2003
THE COMPLETE ACTION STORIES, Wildside Press, January 2005
THE RIOT AT COUGAR PAW, AND THE ROAD TO BEAR CREEK, Dodo Press, February 2008

This short story was altered slightly to become Chapter 7 of the novel, A Gent From Bear Creek.

ROGUES IN THE HOUSE

Featuring CONAN

WEIRD TALES, January 1934
TERROR BY NIGHT, Selwyn & Blount, August 1934
SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS, Arkham House, 1946
MORE NOT AT NIGHT, Arrow, 1st, 1961
MORE NOT AT NIGHT, Arrow, 2nd, 1963
NEVER AT NIGHT, Arrow, 1972 (reprint of More Not at Night)
SKULL-FACE OMNIBUS, Neville Spearman, 1974
SKULL-FACE OMNIBUS, Neville Spearman, 1975
SKULL-FACE OMNIBUS, Volume 3, Panther, 1976
ROGUES IN THE HOUSE, Grant, 1976
THE CONAN CHRONICLES Volume 1, Millennium, August 2000
COMPLETE CONAN OF CIMMERIA VOLUME 1, Wandering Star, 2002
THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, Del Rey, December 2003
THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, Science Fiction Book Club, December 2003
SAVAGE ADVENTURES, Wild Cat Books, 2004
THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, Del Rey, November 2005
RED NAILS, Incarna Publishing, 2005
SAVAGE PULP #1, Incarna Publishing, 2005
THE WEIRD WRITINGS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD Volume 1, Girasol Collectables, January 2006
THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES OF CONAN, Gollancz, January 2006
VALLEY OF THE WORM, Wildside Press, April 2006
CONAN, O CIMÉRIO Volume 2, Conrad Editora, 2006 (Portuguese)
FIVE TALES OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Echo Library, March 2007
ROGUES IN THE HOUSE, Dodo Press, February 2008
THE CONAN CHRONICLES Volume 1, Gollancz, April 2008
THE ADVENTUROUS TALES OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, Onno Tasler, October 2008
CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Prion Books, May 2009 (U.K.)
THE COMING OF CONAN THE CIMMERIAN, Tantor Media Inc., June 2009 (audio)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Easton Press, January 2010
CONAN - THE FRAZETTA COVER SERIES #5, Dark Horse Comics, July 2010 (graphic adaptation)
SWORD'S EDGE: PAINTINGS INSPIRED BY THE WORKS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD, Underwood Books, September 2010 (excerpt only)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Prion Books, November 2010
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE CLASSIC ORIGINAL STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM, Gollancz, July 2011
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE MOVIE, Del Rey, August 2011
CONAN THE DESTROYER, Gollancz, October 2011

The L. Sprague de Camp edited version of this story appears in the following places:

THE COMING OF CONAN, Gnome Press, 1953 (edited by LSDC)
CONAN, Lancer, 1968
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #11, Marvel, November 1971
CONAN, Sphere, 1974
CONAN, Zwarte Beertjes, 1976 (Dutch)
CONAN, Prestige, 1977
CONAN, J'ai Lu, 1980 (Based on Ace/Lancer edition) (French)
CONAN, Ace, 1981
CONAN DE BARBAAR, W & L Boeken, 1983 (Dutch)
ROSTRO DE CALAVERA, ST, 1987 (Spanish)
THE CONAN CHRONICLES Volume 1, Sphere, August 1989
CONAN: ESPADA & MAGIA, Volume 1, Unicórnio Azul, 1995 (Portuguese)
CONAN DE CIMMERIER, De Boekerij - Uitgeverij M, March 2003 (Dutch)

A ROOM IN LONDON

Outline

THE LAST OF THE TRUNK OCH BREV I URVAL, Paradox Entertainment, March 2007
THE LAST OF THE TRUNK, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, November 2007

THE ROVING BOYS ON A SANDBURG

800 words

THE LAST OF THE TRUNK OCH BREV I URVAL, Paradox Entertainment, March 2007
THE LAST OF THE TRUNK, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, November 2007
SENTIMENT: AN OLIO OF RARER WORKS, REH Foundation Press, December 2009

THE RUMP OF SWIFT

THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF REH VOL. 1: 1923-1929, Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, June 2007
SENTIMENT: AN OLIO OF RARER WORKS, REH Foundation Press, December 2009

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