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"Artist's
Forward" by Jim & Ruth Keegan
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"Introduction"
by Rusty Burke
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"The Shadow Kingdom"
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"The Ghost Kings" (poem)
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"The Curse of the Golden Skull"
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"Red Shadows"
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"The One Black
Stain (poem)
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"The Dark Man"
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"The Marching Song of Connacht"
(poem)
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"Kings of the Night"
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"Recompense" (poem)
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"The Black Stone"
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"The Song of a Mad Minstrel" (poem)
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"The Fightin’est Pair"
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"The Grey God Passes"
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"The Song of the Last Briton"
(poem)
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"Worms of the Earth"
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"An Echo from the
Iron Harp" (poem)
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"Lord of the Dead"
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Untitled "You have built
a world of paper and wood" (poem)
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"For the Love of Barbara Allen"
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"The Tide" (poem)
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"The Valley of the Worm"
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"The Dust Dance: Selections, Version
II" (poem)
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"The People of the Black Circle"
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"Beyond the Black River"
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"A Word from the Outer Dark" (poem)
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"Hawk of the Hills"
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"Sharp’s Gun Serenade"
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"Lines Written in
the Realization That I Must Die" (poem)
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Appendices
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"Robert E. Howard: Twentieth-Century
Mythmaker"
by Charles Hoffman
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"A Short Biography
of Robert E. Howard"
by Rusty Burke
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"Notes on the Original
Howard Texts"
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Limited Edition:
750 numbered copies signed by Jim & Ruth
Keegan
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Deluxe Edition: 50 numbered copies signed
by the artists, bound in leather, housed in a leather slipcase.
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Included with the Deluxe Edition is a chapbook
titled "Crimson Shadows Sketchbook." It is 11 pages, saddle stapled, and
8.5 by 5.5 inches in size. It contains nine black and white plates
by Jim & Ruth Keegan.
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Contains all of the black and white
artwork from the Del Rey edition plus four new full
color plates by Jim & Ruth Keegan. The color plates are
located in the stories they were illustrated for and not at the back of
the book.
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Edited by Rusty
Burke
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Art Director: Marcelo Anciano
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Typographer: Stuart Williams
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The texts for
this edition were based on Howard's original typescripts or the first
published appearance if a typescript was unavailable.
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