Robert Ervin Howard – Western Tales

The REH Foundation Press is proud to present Western Tales, a collection of Robert E. Howard’s traditional and weird western stories. The book checks in at 550 pages, and will be printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited first-print quantity of 200 copies, each individually numbered. Cover art by Tom Gianni and introduction by James Reasoner. This volume marks the first book publication of “Six-Gun Interview” and the first appearance anywhere of “Drag”—an item bibliographers refer to as Untitled, “It was a strange experience . . .”—this one-page fragment mentions the Sonora Kid, as well as Gordon (aka El Borak) and Lal Singh. While both of those items are unfinished, Western Tales also features the never-before published complete alternate version of “The Devil’s Joker” and other rarities.

Contents

„Robert E. Howard: Western Pulp Pioneer” by James Reasoner (Introduction)

Western Tales

„Drums of the Sunset”

„John Ringold” (poem)

„The Extermination of Yellow Donory”

„Old Faro Bill” (poem)

„The Judgment of the Desert”

„The Sand-Hill’s Crest” (poem)

„Gunman’s Debt”

„The Devil’s Joker”

„The Feud” (poem)

„Knife, Bullet and Noose”

„Law-Shooters of Cowtown”

„Over the Old Rio Grandey” (poem)

„Wild Water”

„Cowboy” (poem)

„The Last Ride” (with Robert Enders Allen)

„The Vultures of Wahpeton”

„Vultures’ Sanctuary”

„Ace High” (poem)

„The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts” (poem)

The Weird West

„The Horror from the Mound”

„The Valley of the Lost”

„The Man on the Ground”

„Old Garfield’s Heart”

„The Thunder-Rider”

„The Dead Remember”

Essays

„The Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger”

„The Ghost of Camp Colorado”

Miscellanea

„Six-Gun Interview” (Unfinished)

Untitled, „I met him first in the Paradise Saloon . . .”

„The Killer’s Debt” (Fragment)

Three Synopses („Gunman’s Debt”)

„Wild Water Timing”

„The Devil’s Joker” (Alternate Version)

Untitled Synopsis („The Vultures of Wahpeton”)

Juvenilia

„A Faithful Servant”

„‘Golden Hope’ Christmas”

„The Sonora Kid—Cowhand”

„The Sonora Kid’s Winning Hand”

„Red Curls and Bobbed Hair”

Untitled, „Madge Meraldson . . .”

Untitled, „The Hades Saloon . . .”

Untitled, „A blazing sun . . .”

Untitled, „The way it came about . . .”

Untitled, „The hot Arizona sun . . .”

Untitled, „Steve Allison settled . . .”

„Brotherly Advice”

„Desert Rendezvous”

„The West Tower”

„Drag” (aka Untitled, „It was a strange experience . . .”)

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