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"Acknowledgements" by Rob Roehm
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"Hard-Boiled in Texas" by Don Herron
(Introduction)
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"Lord of the Dead"
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"The People of the Serpent"
("Fangs of Gold") (See Notes)
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"The Teeth of Doom" ("The Tomb’s
Secret") (See Notes)
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"The Black Moon"
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"The Voice of Death"
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"The House of Suspicion"
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"Names in the Black Book"
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"The Silver Heel"
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"Graveyard Rats"
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Miscellanea
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"The Mystery of Tannernoe Lodge"
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Untitled synopsis ("Steve Harrison
received a wire …")
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"Graveyard Rats" (draft)
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Notes
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Edited by Rob
Roehm
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Kindle utilizes
the mobi format. Nook utilizes the ePub format.
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All of the REH stories and portions thereof
come from Howard's original typescripts and carbons. All of them were scanned
from the Glenn Lord collection, now at the University of Texas, Austin
or the typescript collection at Cross Plains Library.
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eBook prepared for publication by Ståle
Gismervik, Savage Studios.
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The titling of "The People of the
Serpent" and "Teeth of Doom" is an attempt to get the names fixed after
the magazine they were both published in got the names mixed up.
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The February 1934 issue of Strange
Detective Stories carried two tales by Robert E. Howard: "The Tomb's Secret"
and "Fangs of Gold." At some point during production, it appears that
the titles were inadvertently switched, as there are no "fangs of gold"
or anything similar in "Fangs of Gold" as published; however, the other
story, credited in that magazine to Howard's pseudonym Patrick Ervin, works
quite well with that title.
To further complicate matters, Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline,
kept a list of titles and the magazines that purchased them. Above "The
Teeth of Doom" on Kline's list, someone has added "The Tomb's Secret"; above
"The People of the Serpent," someone has added "Fangs of Gold." The original
titles work well for the stories in question and are probably the titles
that Howard himself used when they were submitted.
For the shown publication, the errors that appeared when the stories
were first published are corrected. "The Tomb's Secret" appears as "The
Teeth of Doom"; "Fangs of Gold" appears as "The People of the Serpent."
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