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"The Brute Eternal" by Christopher
Gruber (Introduction)
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Fists of Iron
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"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux"
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"Double Cross"
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"The Weeping Willow"
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"The Right Hook"
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"The Voice of Doom"
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"Crowd-Horror"
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"Iron Men"
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"The Mark of a Bloody Hand"
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"They Always Come Back"
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"The Trail of the Snake"
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Poems
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"Kid Lavigne is Dead" (poem)
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"Aw Come on and Fight!"
(poem)
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"The Cooling of Spike McRue"
(poem)
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"Fables for Little Folks"
(poem)
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"The Champ" (poem)
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"Slugger’s Vow" (poem)
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"And Dempsey Climbed Into the Ring"
(poem)
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"In the Ring" (poem)
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"Fighting the Anaconda Kid"
(poem)
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"Down the Ages" (poem)
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"John L. Sullivan" (poem)
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"Jack Dempsey" (poem)
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"The Duckers of Crosses" (poem)
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"All the Crowd" (poem)
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"When you Were a Set-up and I Was
a Ham" (poem)
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Appendix 1: early tales, variants
and fragments
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"The Spirit of Brian Boru"
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"A Man of Peace" (originally
untitled)
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"The Atavist" (unfinished, originally
untitled)
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"Cupid vs. Pollux"
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"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" (alternate
published version)
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"Untitled ("I had just hung ...")
(fragment)
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"The Ferocious Ape" (incomplete,
originally untitled)
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Untitled ("Spike Morissey …")
(fragment)
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Untitled ("The tale has always
been …") (fragment)
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"The Ghost Behind the Gloves" (unfinished)
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"Lobo Volante" (unfinished
fragment, originally untitled)
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"Night Encounter" (incomplete,
originally untitled)
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"The Folly of Conceit" (unfinished,
originally untitled)
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"Iron Men" (first version)
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Appendix 2: Articles
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"Dula Due to be Champion"
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To The Fort Worth Record, ca. July 1928,
"Tunney can’t win …" (as "Tunney Can't Win")
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"The Punch"
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"Men of Iron" (unfinished,
originally untitled)
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Appendix 3: Odds and Ends
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Untitled ("The round started slow
…") (incomplete)
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"Jeffries Versus Dempsey"
(originally untitled, imaginary Jeffries-Dempsey fight)
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"Misto Dempsey" (originally
untitled)
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"The Funniest Bout"
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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"
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Appendix 4: "The Lord of the Ring"
(part 1), by Patrice Louinet
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Notes
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Edited by Patrice
Louinet, Christopher Gruber, Mark Finn and Paul Herman
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First in a series of four books.
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Kindle utilizes the mobi format.
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All of the REH stories and portions
thereof come from Howard's original typescripts, manuscripts, and
carbons, when possible. Virtually all of the typescripts were scanned
from the Glenn Lord collection, now at the University of Texas, Austin;
the Robert E. Howard collection at Texas A&M University; or the
typescript collection at Cross Plains Library.
The exceptions are:
"Kid Lavigne is Dead" is from The Ring.
"Fables for Little Folks" is from the Daniel Baker Collegian.
"In the Ring" is a mix of the original typescript and REH Fight Magazine
#4.
"A Man of Peace" is a mix of the original typescript and
the Glenn Lord retype.
"Cupid v. Pollux" is from The Yellow Jacket.
"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" (alternate version) is from Ghost Stories.
"Night Encounter" is from a mix of the original typescript
and the Glenn Lord retype.
"Dula Due to be Champion" is from the Brownwood Bulletin.
"Tunney Can't Win" is from the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
"The Funniest Bout" is from a mix of the original typescript
and the Glenn Lord retype.
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Prepared for publication by Ståle
Gismervik, Savage Studios.
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Changes from the First Edition:
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The following have been added:
"Tunney Can't Win"
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Additional changes:
Source for the text of "The Weeping Willow" changed from
the Glenn Lord retype to the original REH typescript.
Poetry titles have been updated to correspond with
the titles in The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard, Volumes 1-3 (2nd
edition).
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