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Robert Ervin Howard
(1906–1936)

See biography, media, quotes. A writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories.
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Robert Ervin Howard

[edit] Works

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[edit] Novels

The Hour of the Dragon (First published in Weird Tales, December 1935-April 1936. Alternate title: Conan the Conqueror)
Almuric

[edit] Short Stories

[edit] Conan the Barbarian

The Phoenix on the Sword (First Published in Weird Tales, December 1932)
The Scarlet Citadel (First Published in Weird Tales, January 1933)
The Tower of the Elephant (First Published in Weird Tales, March 1933)
Black Colossus (First Published in Weird Tales, June 1933)
The Slithering Shadow (First published in Weird Tales, September 1933. Alternate title: Xuthal of the Dusk)
The Pool of the Black One (First published in Weird Tales, October 1933)
Rogues in the House (First Published in Weird Tales, January 1934)
Gods of the North (First Published in Fantasy Fan, March 1934. Alternate titles: The Frost Giant's Daughter, The Frost King's Daughter)
Shadows in the Moonlight (First published in Weird Tales, April 1934. Alternate title: Iron Shadows in the Moon)
Queen of the Black Coast (First published in Weird Tales, May 1934)
The Devil in Iron (First Published in Weird Tales, August 1934)
The People of the Black Circle (First published in Weird Tales, September, October and November 1934)
A Witch Shall Be Born (First published in Weird Tales, December 1934)
Jewels of Gwahlur (First Published in Weird Tales, March 1935. Alternate titles: Teeth of Gwahlur, The Servants of Bit-Yakin)
Beyond the Black River (First Published in Weird Tales, May and June 1935)
Shadows in Zamboula (First Published in Weird Tales, November 1935. Alternate title: The Man-Eaters of Zamboula)
Red Nails (First Published in Weird Tales, July, August-September, October 1936)
The Hyborian Age (First published in The Phantagraph, February-November 1936)

[edit] Solomon Kane

Red Shadows (First published in Weird Tales, August 1928. Alternate title: Solomon Kane)
Skulls in the Stars (First published in Weird Tales, January 1929)
Rattle of Bones (First published in Weird Tales, June 1929)
The Moon of Skulls (First published in Weird Tales, June-July 1930)
The Hills of the Dead (First published in Weird Tales, August 1930)
The Footfalls Within (First published in Weird Tales, September 1931)
Wings in the Night (First published in Weird Tales, July 1932)

[edit] Breckinridge Elkins

Mountain Man (First published in Action Stories, March-April 1934)
Guns of the Mountains (First published in Action Stories, May-June 1934)
The Scalp Hunter (First appeared in Action Stories, August 1934. Alternate title: A Stranger in Grizzly Claw)
A Gent From Bear Creek (First published in Action Stories, October 1934)
The Road to Bear Creek (First published in Action Stories, December 1934)
The Haunted Mountain (First published in Action Stories, February 1935)
War on Bear Creek (First published in Action Stories, April 1935)
The Feud Buster (First published in Action Stories, June 1935)
Cupid From Bear Creek (First published in Action Stories, August 1935. Alternate title: The Peaceful Pilgrim)
The Riot at Cougar Paw (First published in Action Stories, October 1935)
The Apache Mountain War (First published in Action Stories, December 1935)
Pilgrims to the Pecos (First published in Action Stories, February 1936. Alternate title: Weary Pilgrims on the Road)
Pistol Politics (First published in Action Stories, April 1936)
Evil Deeds at Red Cougar (First published in Action Stories, June 1936)
High Horse Rampage (First published in Action Stories, August 1936. Alternate title: Gents on the Rampage)
No Cowherders Wanted (First published in Action Stories, September 1936. Alternate title: Gents in Buckskin)
The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts (First published in Action Stories, October 1936. Alternate titles: Politics at Blue Lizard, Politics at Lonesome Lizard)
Sharp's Gun Serenade (First published in Action Stories, January 1937. Alternate title: Educate or Bust)
Texas John Alden (First published in Masked Rider Western, May 1944. Originally a Buckner J. Grimes story)

[edit] El Borak

The Daughter of Erlik Khan (First published in Top-Notch, December 1934)
Hawk of the Hills (First appeared in Top-Notch, June 1935)
Blood of the Gods (First published in Top-Notch, July 1935)
The Country of the Knife (First published in Complete Stories, August 1936. Alternate title: Sons of the Hawk)
Son of the White Wolf (First published in Thrilling Adventures, December 1936)
The Lost Valley of Iskander (Alternate title: Swords of the Hills)

[edit] Kull of Atlantis

The Shadow Kingdom (First Published in Weird Tales, August 1929)
The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune (First published in Weird Tales, September 1929)
Kings of the Night (First appeared in Weird Tales, November 1930)

[edit] Bran Mak Morn

The Lost Race (First published in Weird Tales, January 1927)
Kings of the Night (First appeared in Weird Tales, November 1930)
The Dark Man (First published in Weird Tales, December 1931)
Worms of the Earth (First appeared in Weird Tales, November 1932)

[edit] Black Vulmea

Black Vulmea's Vengeance (First published in Golden Fleece, November 1938)
Swords of the Red Brotherhood (First published in Black Vulmea's Vengeance, 1976)
The Isle of Pirate's Doom (First published in Isle of Pirate's Doom, 1975)

[edit] Turlough Dubh O'Brien

The Gods of Bal-Sagoth (First published in Weird Tales, October 1931)
The Dark Man (First published in Weird Tales, December 1931)
The Shadow of the Hun (First published in Shadow of the Hun, 1975. Fragment)

[edit] Cormac Fitzgeoffrey

Hawks of Outremer (First published in Oriental Stories, April-May-June 1931)
The Blood of Belshazzar (First published in Oriental Stories, Fall 1931)

[edit] Steve Harrison

Fangs of Gold (First published in Strange Detective Stories, February 1934. Alternate title: People of the Serpent)
The Tomb's Secret (First published in Strange Detective Stories, February 1934. Alternate title: Teeth of Doom)
Names in the Black Book (First published in Strange Detective Stories, May 1934)
Graveyard Rats (First published in Thrilling Mystery, February 1936)

[edit] Sailor Steve Costigan

The Pit of the Serpent (First published in Fight Stories, July 1929. Alternate title: Manila Manslaughter)
The Bull Dog Breed (First published in Fight Stories, February 1930. Alternate title: You Got to Kill a Bulldog)
Sailors' Grudge (First published in Fight Stories, March 1930. Alternate title: Costigan vs. Kid Camera)
Fist and Fang (First published in Fight Stories, May 1930. Alternate title: Cannibal Fists)
Winner Take All (First published in Fight Stories, July 1930. Alternate title: Sucker!)
Waterfront Fists (First published in Fight Stories, September 1930. Alternate title: Stand Up and Slug)
Champ of the Forecastle (First published in Fight Stories, November 1930. Alternate title: Champ of the Seven Seas, The Champion of the Forecastle)
Alleys of Peril (First published in Fight Stories, January 1931. Alternate title: Leather Lightning)
The TNT Punch (First published in Action Stories, January 1931. Alternate titles: The Waterfront Law, The Waterfront Wallop)
Texas Fists (First published in Fight Stories, May 1931. Alternate title: Shanghied Mitts)
The Sign of the Snake (First published Action Stories, June 1931)
Blow the Chinks Down! (First appeared in Action Stories, October 1931. Alternate title: The House of Peril)
Breed of Battle (First published in Action Stories, November 1931. Alternate title: The Fighten'est Pair and Sampson Had a Soft Spot)
Circus Fists (First published in Fight Stories, December 1931. Alternate title: Slugger Bait)
Dark Shanghai (First published in Action Stories, January 1932. Alternate title: One Shanghai Night)
Vikings of the Gloves (First published in Fight Stories, February 1932. Alternate title: Including the Scandinavian)
Night of Battle (First published in Fight Stories, March 1932. Alternate title: Shore Leave for a Slugger)
The Slugger's Game (First published in Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine, May 1934)
General Ironfist (First published in Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine, June 1934)
Sluggers on the Beach (First published in Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine, August 1934)

[edit] Other Boxing stories

Cupid vs. Pollux (First published in Yellow Jacket, October 1927)
Apparition in the Prize Ring (First published in Ghost Stories, April 1929. Alternate title: The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux) An Ace Jessel story
Alleys of Darkness (Published in Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934. Alternate title: Alleys of Singapore) A Dennis Dorgan story
Fighting Nerves A Kid Allison story
Fistic Psychology A Kid Allison story
The Jinx A Kid Allison story
The Texas Wildcat A Kid Allison story
A Tough Nut to Crack A Kid Allison story
The Fighting Fury
Misto' Demsey
Night Encounter
Trail of the Snake

[edit] Other Historical stories

Red Blades of Black Cathay (Published in Oriental Stories, February-March 1931)
The Lion of Tiberias (Published in Magic Carpet Magazine, July 1933)
Gates of Empire (Published in Golden Fleece, January 1939). Alternate title: The Road of the Mountain Lion)
Lord of Samarcand (First published in Oriental Stories, Spring 1932. Alternate title: The Lame Man)
The Sowers of Thunder (First published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932)
The Shadow of the Vulture (First published in Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934) Featuring Red Sonya
The Treasure of Tartary (Published in Thrilling Adventures, January 1935) A Kirby O'Donnell yarn
The Curse of the Crimson God (Published in ???, ???) A Kirby O'Donnell yarn
Swords of Shahrazar (Published in ???, ???) A Kirby O'Donnell yarn
The King's Service (Fragment)

[edit] Other Horror stories

In the Forest of Villefére (First published in Weird Tales, August 1925) A De Montour story
Wolfshead (First published in Weird Tales, April 1926) A De Montour story
The Hyena (First published in Weird Tales, March 1928)
Sea Curse (First published in Weird Tales, May 1928) A Faring Town story
Skull-Face (First published in Weird Tales, October-December 1929)
The Fearsome Touch of Death (Published in Weird Tales, February 1930)
The Black Stone (First published in Weird Tales, November 1931)
The Cairn on the Headland (First published in Strange Tales, January 1933)
The Grisly Horror (First published in Weird Tales, February 1935. Alternate title: Moon of Zambebwei)
The Challenge from Beyond (First published in Fantasy Magazine, September 1935)
Black Hound of Death (First published in Weird Tales, November 1936)
Pigeons from Hell (First published in Weird Tales, May 1938)
Black Country (First published in Weirdbook Six, 1973)

[edit] Other Western stories

"Golden Hope" Christmas (First published in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper, December 1922)
Drums of the Sunset (First published in The Cross Plains Review, November 1928 - January 1929. Alternative title: Riders of the Sunset)
Black Talons (First published in Strange Detective Stories, December 1933. Alternate title: Talons in the Dark)
Boot Hill Payoff (Published in Western Aces, October 1935. Alternate title: The Last Ride)
The Vultures of Whapeton (First published in Smashing Novels Magazine, December 1936. Alternate titles: The Vultures, The Vultures of Wahpeton, The Vultures of Teton Gulch)
While the Smoke Rolled (First published in Double-Action Western, December 1956) A Pike Bearfield story
Six-Gun Interview

[edit] Other Fantasy stories

Spear and Fang (First published in Weird Tales, July 1925)
People of the Dark (First published in Strange Tales, June 1932)
The Voice of El-Lil (First published in Oriental Stories, November 1930. Alternate title: Temptress of the Tower of Torture and Sin)
The Valley of the Worm (First published in Weird Tales, February 1934) A James Allison story
The Garden of Fear (First published in Marvel Tales, July-August 1934) A James Allison story
Black Canaan (First published in Weird Tales, June 1936)
Witch from Hell's Kitchen (Published in Avon Fantasy Reader, 1952. Alternate title: The House of Arabu)

[edit] Other stories

Westward Ho!
Aha! or The Mystery of the Queen's Necklace (First published in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper, March 1923)
Unhand Me, Villain (First published in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper, February 1923)

[edit] Spicy stories

She Devil (First Published in Spicy Adventure Stories, April 1936) A Wild Bill Clanton story
Desert Blood (First Published in Spicy Adventure Stories, June 1936. Alternative title: Revenge by Proxy) A Wild Bill Clanton story
The Dragon of Kao Tsu (First Published in Spicy Adventure Stories, September 1936) A Wild Bill Clanton story
The Purple Heart of Erlik (First Published in Spicy Adventure Stories, November 1936) A Wild Bill Clanton story
Murderer's Grog (First Published in Spicy Adventure Stories, January 1937. Alternative title: Outlaw Working) A Wild Bill Clanton story

[edit] Humor

Musings of a Moron
After the Game (First published in Yellow Jacket, October 1926)
Halt! Who Goes There? (First published in Yellow Jacket, September 1924)
The Reformation: A Dream (First published in Yellow Jacket, April 1927. Alternative title: The Reformation of a Dream)
The Sheik (First published in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper, March 1923)
Sleeping Beauty (First published in Yellow Jacket, October 1926)
The Thessalians (First published in Yellow Jacket, January 1927)
Weekly Short Story (First published in Yellow Jacket, November 1926)
West Is West (First published in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper, December 1922)
Ye College Days (First published in Yellow Jacket, January 1927)

[edit] Essays & articles

The Beast from the Abyss
The Hyborian Age (First published in The Phantagraph, February-November 1936)
Midnight
With a Set of Rattlesnake Rattles
The Ghost of Camp Colorado (First publishe in The Texaco Star)
The Ideal Girl (First published in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper, January 1925)
Dula Due To Be Champion (First published in The Brownwood Bulletin, July 1928)
What the Nation Owes the South (First published in The Brownwood Bulletin, May 26, 1923)

[edit] Letters

[edit] Poetry

Always Comes Evening (1936)
Crete (Published February 1929 in Weird Tales)
Dead Man's Hate (Published January 1930 in Weird Tales)
Easter Island (Published December 1928 in Weird Tales)
Eternity
Fables For Little Folk (Published March 1926 in Daniel Baker Collegian)
Flaming Marble (First published in The Poet's Scroll, January 1929)
Forbidden Magic (Published July 1929 in Weird Tales)
Futility (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, May 1926)
The Gates of Ninevah (Published July 1928 in Weird Tales)
The Harp of Alfred (Published September 1928 in Weird Tales)
The Kissing of Sal Snooboo (Published January 1925 in The Tattler, the Brownwood High School paper)
Life
Lines to G. B. Shaw
Miser's Gold
Moon Mockery (First published in Weird Tales, April 1929)
The Moor Ghost (Published September 1929 in Weird Tales)
The One Black Stain (First published in The Howard Collector #2, Spring 1962)
One Who Comes at Eventide (First published in Modern American Poetry, October 1933)
An Open Window (First published in Weird Tales, September 1932)
The Riders of Babylon (Published January 1928 in Weird Tales)
The Ride of Falume (First published in Weird Tales, October 1927)
Recompense (1938)
The Skull in the Clouds (Published August 1929 in The Junto. Alternate title: Reuben’s Birthright)
Solomon Kane's Homecoming (First published in Fanciful Tales, Fall 1936)
The Song of the Bats (Published May 1927 in Weird Tales)
A Song Out of Midian (Published April 1930 in Weird Tales)
Surrender (Published August 1929 in The Junto. Alternate title: The Road to Rest)
The Tempter (Published June 1937 in Cross Plains Review)
To a Woman (First published in Modern American Poetry, October 1933)
Visions
The Weakling
Adventure
Adventurer
The Alamo
Ambition
An American Epic
An American
Arcadian Days
At The Bazaar
Aw Come On And Fight!
Babel (First published in The Fantasy Fan, January 1935)
The Ballad Of Abe Slickemmore
A Ballad Of Insanity
The Ballad Of Monk Kickawhore
Bombing Of Gon Fanfew, The
But The Hills Were Ancient Then (First published In Amra, Vol. 2, #8, November-December 1959. Originally untitled)
The Chinese Gong
The Choir Girl
The Deed Beyond The Deed
Deeps
Dreamer
Dreaming
Dreaming On Downs (First published in The Poet's Scroll, April 1929)
Dreams Of Nineveh (First published in Golden Atom, 20th Anniversary Issue, 1959-1960)
Drummings On An Empty Skull
Empire's Destiny (First published in The Poet's Scroll, June 1929. Alternative title: Oh Babylon, Lost Babylon)
Envoy
Girl
The Gods Remember
A Great Man Speaks
The Grey Lover
High Blue Halls
How to Select a Successful Evangelist
Illusion (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, March 1926)
Ivory in the Night
Jack Dempsey
John Kelley
Kid Lavigne is Dead (First published in The Ring, June 1928)
A Lady's Chamber (First published in American Poet, April 1929)
Laughter
Lesbia
Libertine
Lust
The Madness of Cormac
The Maiden of Kercheezer (First published in The Progress, February 1924)
A Mick in Israel
Monarchs
The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts
The Mountains of California
My Children
Mystic
Nancy Hawk - A Legend Of Virginity
Nun
Ocean-Thoughts
One Blood Strain
Only In Death They Die
Orientia
Poet
Private Magrath of the A.E.F (First published in Yellow Jacket, January 1927)
Rebellion (First published in The Poet's Scroll, February 1929)
Prude
A Rattlesnake Sings In The Grass
Rebellion (First published in The Poet's Scroll, February 1929)
Red Thunder (First published in JAPM: The Poetry Weekly, September 1929)
Renunciation
Repentance
The Road To Hell
The Robes of the Righteous
A Roman Lady
Romance
Roundelay Of The Roughneck (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, April 1926)
Rules of Etiquette (First published in The Progress, February 1924)
Sailor
San Jacinto
The Sands of Time
The Sea (First published in The Baylor United Statement, Spring 1923)
Secrets
Serpent
Shadow of Dreams (First published in The Poet's Scroll, August 1929. Alternative title: Stay Not From Me)
Shadows
Sighs in the Yellow Leaves
The Singer in the Mist (First published in Weird Tales, April 1938)
Skulls and Dust (First published in American Poet, May 1929)
Song at Midnight (First published in The Phantagraph, August 1940. Alternative title: Man, the Master)
A Song of Cheer
A Song of College
A Song of Greenwich
The Song of the Sage
Sonora to Del Rio (First published in The Howard Collector #1, Summer 1961)
Summer Morn
Tarantella (First published in Daniel Baker Collegian, May 1926)
That Women May Sing of Us
Thor
Tides (First published in Contemporary Verse, September 1929)
To a Roman Woman
To Certain Cultured Women
To the Contended
Toper
A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans
The Voices Waken Memory (First published in The Fantasy Fan, September 1934. Alternative titles: A Drum Begins to Throb, Out of the Deep)
Which Will Scarecely Be Understood
Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them
"A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs..."
"A cringing woman’s lot is hard..."
"A hundred years the great war raged..."
"A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne..."
"Adam’s loins were mountains..."
"After the trumps are sounded..."
"Against the blood red moon a tower stands..."
"All the crowd..."
"And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd..."
"At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to..."
"Bill Boozy was a pirate bold..."
"By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop where the..."
"Dark are your eyes..."
"determined. So I set out up..."
"Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs..."
"Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies..."
"Flappers flicker and flap and flirt..."
"Give ye of my best though the dole be meger..."
"He clutched his... ..."
"Hills of the North! Lavender hills..."
"I am MAN from the primal, I..."
"I am the Spirit of War!..."
"I do not sing of a paradise..."
"I hate the man who tells me that I lied..."
"I hold all women are a gang of tramps..."
"I lay in Yen’s opium joint..."
"I tell you this my friend..."
"Keep women, thrones and kingly lands..."
"Let me live as I was born to live..."
"Life is a cynical, romantic pig..."
"Love is singing soft and low..."
"Match a toad with a far-winged hawk..."
"Mingle my dust with the burning brand..."
"Moonlight and shadows barred the land..."
"Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool..."
"My brother he was a auctioneer..."
"Noah was my applesauce..."
"Now bright, now red, now red, the sabers sped among the..."
"Old Faro Bill was a man of might..."
"Out in front of Goldestein’s..."
"Out of Asia the tribesmen came..."
"Rebel souls from the falling dark..."
"Romona! Romona!..."
"Roses laughed in her pretty hair..."
"Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold..."
"Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight..."
"Swords glimmered up the pass..."
"Take some honey from a cat..."
"that is the artistry is..."
"The east is red and I am dead..."
"The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo..."
"The iron harp that Adam christened Life..."
"The shades of night were falling faster..."
"The spiders of weariness come on me..."
"The women come and the women go..."
"The world goes back to the primitive, yea..."
"Then Stein the peddler with rising joy..."
"There once was a wicked old elf..."
"There were three lads who went their destined ways..."
"There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea..."
"They matched me up with a bird..."
"Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell"
"We are the duckers of crosses..."
"Whats become of Waring..."

[edit] Other

Suicide note

[edit] Copyright

Paul Herman has undertaken extensive research into the copyright status of works by Robert E. Howard. Herman released a document for a Howard website called REHeapa entitled: 'THE COPYRIGHT AND OWNERSHIP STATUS OF THE WORKS AND WORDS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD' in December of 2002. This document contains a comprehensive list of Howard works in the public domain. Some of his conjectures as to what is or is not public domain have been called into question by claimants to the rights to the work and are currently being researched. Anyone using Herman's original list are advised to consult the updated versions of the document.

One or more copyright licences apply to works by this author

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they are legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed.

For Class A renewals records (books only) published between 1923 and 1963, check the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Rutgers copyright renewal records.

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It is imperative that contributors search the renewal databases and ascertain that there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using this license. Failure to do so will result in the deletion of the work as a copyright violation. The author died in 1936, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Some works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1923 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice.

The author died in 1936, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923.

The author died in 1936, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.

Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.