Robert Ervin Howard – The Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard: Fists of Iron Round 1

The REH Foundation Press is proud to present Fists of Iron, the first volume of a four-volume series that presents the Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard. The first round measures in at 420 pages, and will be printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 200 copies, each individually numbered. Cover art by Tom Gianni and introduction by Christopher Gruber.

Contents

„The Brute Eternal” by Christopher Gruber (Introduction)

Fists of Iron

„The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux”

„Double Cross”

„The Weeping Willow”

„The Right Hook”

„The Voice of Doom”

„Crowd-Horror”

„Iron Men”

„The Mark of a Bloody Hand”

„They Always Come Back”

„The Trail of the Snake”

Poems

„Kid Lavigne is Dead”

„Aw Come on and Fight!”

„The Cooling of Spike McRue”

„Fables for Little Folks”

„The Champ”

„Slugger’s Vow”

„In the Ring”

Untitled („And Dempsey climbed into the ring”)

Untitled („They matched me up that night”)

„Down the Ages”

„John L. Sullivan”

„Jack Dempsey”

Untitled („We are the duckers of crosses”)

Untitled („All the crowd”)

„When you Were a Set-up and I Was a Ham”

Appendix 1: early tales, variants and fragments

„The Spirit of Brian Boru”

„A Man of Peace”

„The Atavist” (unfinished)

„Cupid vs. Pollux”

„The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux” (alternate version)

„Untitled fragment („I had just hung…”)

„The Ferocious Ape” (fragment)

Untitled fragment („Spike Morissey…”)

Untitled fragment („The tale has always been…”)

„The Ghost Behind the Gloves” (fragment)

„Lobo Volante” (fragment)

„Night Encounter” (incomplete)

„The Folly of Conceit” (unfinished)

„Iron Men” (first version)

Appendix 2: Articles

„Dula Due to be Champion”

„The Punch”

„Men of Iron”

Appendix 3: Odds and Ends

Untitled document („The round started slow . . .”)

„Jeffries Versus Dempsey”

„Misto Dempsey”

„The Funniest Bout”

Boxing material from Howard’s self-published The Right Hook (3 issues, 1925)
„The Great Munney Ring”
„Sporting Page”
Untitled „Munn! Munn! Munn! . . .”
Untitled „I progress slowly . . .”
Untitled „I like John L. Sullivan”
„Ringside Tales”

Appendix 4:
„The Lord of the Ring” (part 1), by Patrice Louinet   źródło opisu: http://www.rehfoundation.org/ źródło okładki: http://www.rehfoundation.org/