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THE TALE OF AM-RA

180 words, unfinished

THE TALE OF THE RAJAH'S RING

Featuring LAL SINGH

TALLYHO!

1000 words, fragment

TALONS IN THE DARK

Alternate Title: BLACK TALONS


TAVEREL MANOR

Alternate Title: THE RETURN OF SKULL-FACE

TEETH OF DOOM
by "Patrick Ervin"

Alternate Title: THE TOMB'S SECRET

The February 1934 issue of  STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES carried two stories by REH: "The Tomb's Secret" and "Fangs of Gold."
It appears that the story titles were inadvertently switched.
Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, kept a list of titles and the magazines that purchased them.
Above "The Teeth of Doom" on Kline's list, someone added "The Tomb's Secret."
Above "The People of the Serpent" on Kline's list, someone added "Fangs of Gold."


THE TEETH OF GWAHLUR

Alternate Title: JEWELS OF GWAHLUR; THE SERVANTS OF BIT-YAKIN

THE TEMPLE OF ABOMINATION

Featuring CORMAC MAC ART

TEMPTRESS OF THE TOWER OF
TORTURE AND SIN

Alternate Title: THE VOICE OF EL-LIL

TEN MINUTES ON A STREET CORNER

500 words

TEXAS FISTS

Alternate Title: SHANGHIED MITTS

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN

TEXAS JOHN ALDEN
by "Patrick Ervin"

Alternate Title: A RINGTAILED TORNADO
Alternate Title:  RING-TAILED TORNADO

Featuring BRECKINRIDGE ELKINS

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

A TEXAS PRODIGAL

Alternate Title: KNIFE-RIVER PRODIGAL

THE TEXAS WILDCAT

Alternate Title: THE WILDCAT AND THE STAR

Featuring KID ALLISON

THEM

In its first appearance, it was part of a bundle of four stories titled "Sketches."
The stories include "Sentiment," "Musings," "Midnight," and "Etched in Ebony."

In its second appearance, it was part of a bundle of seven stories titled "Sketches."
The stories include "Ambition in the Moonlight," "To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew," "Musings," "Etched in Ebony," "The Galveston Affair," "Surrender - Your Money or Your Vice," and "Them."

THE THESSALIANS

THEY ALWAYS COME BACK


THE THING ON THE ROOF, Draft  


THE THING ON THE ROOF

THOROUGHBREDS

1800 words

THREE PERILS OF SAILOR COSTIGAN

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN

Consists of three untitled stories: untitled story ("I had just hung ..."), untitled story ("It was the end ..."), and  untitled story ("The night Sailor Steve  ...").

 

THREE-BLADED DOOM

Alternate Title: THE FLAME-KNIFE

Featuring EL BORAK

There is both a long (42,000 words) and a short (24,000 words) version of this story. 
Records from the Kline Agency also say there is a 12 page version of this story, much shorter than the known two versions.
Unfortunately, if a 12 page version does exist it is either lost or it could be an incomplete version of one of the six known drafts for the story. 

The first printing of the short version was heavily edited by the editor (Byron Roark) and those changes were copied by THE NEW HOWARD READER #7 when it reprinted the story in Spring 2000.
The first clean version of the story was in EL BORAK AND OTHER DESERT ADVENTURES.
The short version was offered by Otis Adelbert Kline to TOP-NOTCH, ADVENTURE, COMPLETE STORIES, DIME ADVENTURE, THRILLING ADVENTURE, and NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURES. There were no takers. 

The long version was offered to ARGOSY, BLUE BOOK, SHORT STORIES, SUN and ADVENTURE NOVELS. Again, there were no takers. 
Kline and later agents retained both of the original typescripts and they were eventually donated to Cross Plains Library.

The original title for the REH story is "Three-Bladed Doom."
L. Sprague de Camp created a derivative Conan work based on the long version of "Three-Bladed Doom."
The de Camp derivative Conan version is titled "The Flame Knife."
It appears in the following places:

 

THROUGH THE AGES

800 words, unfinished

A THUNDER OF TRUMPETS
by Robert E. Howard & Frank Thurston Torbett

THE THUNDER-RIDER

TIGERS OF THE SEA

Featuring CORMAC MAC ART

Fragment

THE TNT PUNCH

Alternate Title: WATERFRONT LAW
Alternate Title: THE WATERFRONT WALLOP

Featuring STEVE COSTIGAN

TO A MAN WHOSE NAME I NEVER KNEW

In its first appearance, it was part of a bundle of four stories titled "Sketches."
The stories include "Sentiment," "Musings," "Midnight," and "Etched in Ebony."

In its second appearance, it was part of a bundle of seven stories titled "Sketches."
The stories include "Ambition in the Moonlight," "To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew," "Musings," "Etched in Ebony," "The Galveston Affair," "Surrender - Your Money or Your Vice," and "Them."


THE TOM THUMB MOIDER MYSTERY

THE TOMB OF THE DRAGON

Featuring MIKE DORGAN & BILL MCGLORY

THE TOMB'S SECRET
by "Patrick Ervin"

Alternate Title: TEETH OF DOOM

Featuring STEVE HARRISON

The February 1934 issue of  STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES carried two stories by REH: "The Tomb's Secret" and "Fangs of Gold."
It appears that the story titles were inadvertently switched.
Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, kept a list of titles and the magazines that purchased them.
Above "The Teeth of Doom" on Kline's list, someone added "The Tomb's Secret."
Above "The People of the Serpent" on Kline's list, someone added "Fangs of Gold."

Originally a Steve Harrison story, the main character was changed to Brock Rollins when the story ran in the same issue of STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES as the Steve Harrison story "Fangs of Gold."
 

A TOUCH OF COLOR

THE TOUCH OF DEATH

Alternate Title: THE FEARSOME TOUCH OF DEATH

A TOUCH OF TRIVIA

A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK

Featuring KID ALLISON

An aborted Kid Allison tale that was re-written into a Kid Clarny tale.
Both versions are dated from early to mid-1931 and are unfinished. The Clarny version is more fleshed out.

A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK 

Featuring KID CLARNY

An aborted Kid Allison tale that was re-written into a Kid Clarny tale.
Both versions are dated from early to mid-1931 and are unfinished. The Clarny version is more fleshed out.


THE TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT

Featuring CONAN

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

THE TOWER OF TIME

Alternate Title: AKRAM THE MYSTERIOUS

Featuring JAMES ALLISON


THE TOY RATTLE MURDER CASE

THE TRACK OF BOHEMUND

THE TRAIL OF THE BLOOD-STAINED GOD

Alternate Title: THE CURSE OF THE CRIMSON GOD
Alternate Title: THE BLOODSTAINED 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."
When the original REH story was finally published, the name was changed to "The Curse of the Crimson God" to avoid confusion.


THE TRAIL OF THE DINOSAUR

Alternate Title: THE LAND OF FORGOTTEN AGES, THE TRAIL OF THE MAMMOTH


THE TRAIL OF THE MAMMOTH

Alternate Title: THE LAND OF FORGOTTEN AGES, THE TRAIL OF THE DINOSAUR

THE TRAIL OF THE SNAKE

THE TREASURE OF HENRY MORGAN

2500 words, fragment

TREASURE OF SHAIBAR KHAN

Alternate Title: SWORDS OF SHAHRAZAR

THE TREASURE OF TRANICOS

Alternate Title: THE BLACK STRANGER
Alternate Title: SWORDS OF THE RED BROTHERHOOD

Featuring CONAN

"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").


THE TREASURES OF TARTARY

Alternate Title: GOLD FROM TARTARY
Alternate Title: GOLD FROM TATARY

Featuring KIRBY O'DONNELL

THE TURKISH MENACE
by "Patrick Ervin"

Alternate Title: SAILOR DORGAN AND THE TURKISH MENACE

Featuring DENNIS DORGAN


TWENTIETH CENTURY SLAVE TRADE



A TWENTIETH-CENTURY RIP VAN WINKLE

2200 words

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GREY GODS

Alternate Title: THE GREY GOD PASSES
Alternate Title: THE SPEARS OF CLONTARF (a non-fantastic version)

"Spears of Clontarf" was rejected by SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE and Howard rewrote the story, adding more of a weird atmosphere. 
It was more than just changing a name here and there, he actually rewrote the story, giving it a new title, "The Grey God Passes."  Under this title it was rejected by WEIRD TALES. 
In hopes of salvaging *something* from the whole affair, REH wrote an entirely new, contemporary horror tale titled "The Cairn on the Headland" which was based on some of the same elements.
Baen published "The Grey God Passes" under its working title, "The Twilight of the Grey Gods"


TWO AGAINST TYRE

A TWO-FISTED SANTA CLAUS
by "Patrick Ervin"

Alternate Title: PLAYING SANTA CLAUS



TYPING PRACTICE

Typed pages that appear to be nothing more than "typing practice"



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