Robert E. Howard suicide note

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Suicide Note (1936)
by Robert Ervin Howard

11 June 1936. The note was typed and found in Howard's wallet. The lines were probably taken from the poem The House of Cæsar by Viola Garvin; for more information, see the REHupa article by Rusty Burke.

421239Suicide Note1936Robert Ervin Howard

All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over and the lamps expire.