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Each chapter includes a header
with a poem or a brief excerpt from a poem as detailed below.
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"Foreword" by Rob
Roehm
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Cross Plains, Texas, March
1932 (Prologue)
"The Phoenix on the Sword"
(verse heading, Chaper 2 only)
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Chapter 1: "I Seek a Vicarious
Pride in My Ancestry"
"Heritage" (1, poem) (lines 1-2)
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Chapter 2: Dr. Isaac and Hester Ervin
Howard. 1870-1906
"An American" (poem) (lines 1-4)
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Chapter 3: A Peripatetic Childhood,
1906-1915
"The Dweller in Dark Valley" (poem) (lines
1-2)
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Chapter 4: Post Oak Country, 1915-1919
"The Sand-Hills' Crest" (poem) (lines
1-2)
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Chapter 5: Cross Plains, Texas,
1919
"Nights to Both of Us Known" (poem) (lines
4-8)
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Chapter 6: Influential Authors, 1920-1922
"Moonlight on a Skull" (poem)
(third stanza)
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Chapter 7: Brownwood, Texas, 1922-1923
"The Sea" (poem) (lines 1-4)
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Chapter 8: Struggling Author, 1923-1924
"Another Hymn
of Hate" (poem) (lines 9-10)
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Chapter 9: Weird Tales, 1925
"Forbidden Magic" (poem) (first stanza)
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Chapter 10: On Werewolves and Horror
Yarns, 1925
"Kelly the Conjure-Man" (verse heading)
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Chapter 11: "Ye College Days," 1926
1927
"Futility" (2, poem) (lines 6-9)
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Chapter 12: The Anguished Poet, 1927
"Poet" (poem)
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Chapter 13: "The Last Celt," 1927-1928
"The Song of the Last Briton" (poem) (last stanza)
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Chapter 14: Solomon Kane and Historical
Fantasy, 1928
"Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (1, poem) (last
stanza)
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Chapter 15: Steve Costigan and the
Boxing Yarns, 1929
"In the Ring" (poem) (last stanza)
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Chapter 16: King Kull and the Birth
of Sword and Sorcery, 1929
"The King and the Oak" (poem) (first stanza)
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Chapter 17: "Lovecraft, One of the
Greatest Writers of Our Time," 1930
"Who is Grandpa Theobold?" (poem) (fourth stanza)
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Chapter 18: Bran Mak Morn and the
Picts, 1930
"The Drums of Pictdom" (poem)
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Chapter 19: Oriental Stories, The
Magic Carpet, and Historical Fiction, 1931
"The Road to Yesterday"
(poem) (first stanza)
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Photo Gallery
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Chapter 20: The Cthulhu Mythos, 1931
"Arkham" (poem)
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Chapter 21: Westerns both Strange
and True, 1932
"Cowboy" (poem)
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Chapter 22: "Hither Came Conan, the
Cimmerian," 1932
"The Phoenix on the Sword" (verse heading,
Chaper 5 only, as "The Road of Kings")
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Chapter 23: Steve Harrison and the
Detective Yarns, 1933
"The Voices Waken Memory" (poem) (first stanza)
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Chapter 24: Breckenridge Elkins and
the Tall Tale Yarns, 1934
"Modest Bill" (poem) (lines 42-45)
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Chapter 25: El Borak and the Adventure
Yarns, 1934
"The
Hills of Kandahar" (poem) (lines 1-4)
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Chapter 26: Novalyne Price, 1934-1935
"Love" (poem) (first stanza)
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Chapter 27: Dark Moods, 1935
"To a Woman" (3, poem) (fourth stanza)
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Chapter 28: Spicy Pulps and Shudder
Stories, 1936
"Desire" (poem) (lines 1-5)
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Chapter 29: Future Texas Laureate,
1936
"The Alamo" (poem)
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Chapter 30: "In the Realization That
I Must Die," 1936
"Lines Written In the Realization That
I Must Die" (poem) (second stanza)
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Epilogue
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"All Fled, All Done"
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Acknowledgments
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Endnotes
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Authors
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Written by Willard M. Oliver
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Kindle
utilizes the mobi format. Nook utilizes the ePub format.
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