The Tales of Weird Menace (var. 1) by Robert E. Howard (The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, March 2025, 978-1-955446-25-9, $19.99, xiv+521pp, tp, co, cover by Mark Wheatley) [edited by Rob Roehm & Paul Herman]
A hardcover edition (-24-2, $39.99) was announced but not seen. Slightly revised from the first edition (The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, 2011) by the addition of “untitled (‘From the black, bandit-haunted mountians…’)”, and synopses for “Sons of Hate”, “Black Hound of Death” and “Moon of Zambebwei”, and minor changes to restore the texts to Howard’s original typescripts. Details taken from online listing.
- · Lines of Succession · Don Herron · in Tales of Weird Menace by Robert E. Howard, The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, 2011
- · Skull-Face [Kathulos] · Robert E. Howard · na Weird Tales October 1929 (+2)
- · The Noseless Horror · Robert E. Howard · ss Magazine of Horror February 1970
- · The Brazen Peacock · Robert E. Howard · nv REH: Lone Star Fictioneer #3, Fall 1975
- · Black John’s Vengeance [Cthulhu] · Robert E. Howard · ss From Beyond the Dark Gateway #3, 1974, as “The Black Bear Bites”
- · Talons in the Dark · Robert E. Howard · ss Strange Detective Stories December 1933, as “Black Talons”
- · The Hand of the Black Goddess [Butch Gorman; Brent Kirby] · Robert E. Howard · nv Bran Mak Morn: A Play, and Others by Robert E. Howard, Cromlech, 1983
originally published in a somewhat different version as “Scarlet Tears” in Weird Tales Vol. 48 No. 1, Spring 1981.
- · Sons of Hate [Butch Gorman; Brent Kirby] · Robert E. Howard · ss Two-Fisted Detective Stories #1, May 1984
- · Moon of Zambebwei · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales February 1935, as “The Grisly Horror”
- · Black Hound of Death · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales November 1936
- · The Devils of Dark Lake · Robert E. Howard · ss WT50 ed. Robert Weinberg, Robert Weinberg, 1974
- · Guests of the Hoodoo Room · Robert E. Howard · nv Shudder Stories #1, June 1984
- · Black Wind Blowing · Robert E. Howard · nv Thrilling Mystery June 1936
- · Miscellanea
- · Taverel Manor [Kathulos] · Robert E. Howard · uw The Howard Reader #8 by Robert E. Howard, Joe & Mona Marek, 2003
originally published in a somewhat different version in Skull-Face, Berkley, 1978.
- · The Return of the Sorcerer · Robert E. Howard · uw A Bicentennial Tribute to Robert E. Howard ed. Fred Blosser, George Hamilton, 1976
- · untitled (“From the black, bandit-haunted mountians…”) · Robert E. Howard · uw Pictures in the Fire by Robert E. Howard, The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, 2018
- · The Red Stone · Robert E. Howard · uw The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval by Robert E. Howard, Paradox Entertainment, 2007
- · untitled (“The night was damp…”) · Robert E. Howard · uw Fantasy Crossroads #7, February 1976
- · The Ivory Camel · Robert E. Howard · uw The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval by Robert E. Howard, Paradox Entertainment, 2007
- · Yellow Laughter · Robert E. Howard · uw The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter v2 #4, 2008
- · The Jade God · Robert E. Howard · uw Unaussprechlichen Kulten July 1992
- · Spectres in the Dark · Robert E. Howard · uw Cromlech v1 #1, 1985
- · The Spell of Damballah · Robert E. Howard · uw Revelations from Yuggoth #1, November 1987
- · untitled synopsis (“James Norris, Joe Rogers, spearman…”) · Robert E. Howard · uw The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval by Robert E. Howard, Paradox Entertainment, 2007
- · Sons of Hate (partial synopsis) · Robert E. Howard · uw The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter v4 #1, 2010
- · Sons of Hate (partial synopsis 2) · Robert E. Howard · uw
- · Sons of Hate (partial synopsis 3) · Robert E. Howard · uw
- · The Devils of Dark Lake (synopsis) · Robert E. Howard · uw The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter v3 #1, 2009; untitled.
- · The House of Om (synopsis) · Robert E. Howard · uw Shudder Stories #2, December 1984
- · untitled synopsis (The Black Hound of Death) · Robert E. Howard · uw The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter v7 #3, 2013
- · untitled synopsis (Moon of Zambebwei) · Robert E. Howard · uw
- · The Story Thus Far… · [uncredited] · lk Weird Tales November 1929 (+1) [Ref. Robert E. Howard & Farnsworth Wright]
consists of the short paragraphs that appeared at the start of the second and third portions of “Skull-Face” as it appeared in Weird Tales. It is not known if REH wrote these or Farnsworth Wright.
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