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"Letter from the Board"
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"The
Blue Flame of Death" (First draft) - Typescript
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"Sonnets Out of Bedlam"
1. "The Singer in the Mist" (poem)
2. "The Dream and the Shadow" (poem)
3. "The Soul-Eater" (poem)
4. "Haunting Columns" (poem)
5. "The Last Hour" (poem)
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"A Misty Sea" (poem)
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News & Events
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2023 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards
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"The Writing Table of Robert E.
Howard Comes Home" by Paul Herman
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Notes
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Prepared for publication by
Lee A. Breakiron
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Howard originally titled the first
draft of "The Blue Flame of Vengeance" as "The Blue Flame of Death."
The protagonist is Solomon Kane and it was written in 1929. It failed to
sell, perhaps because it has no weird element, so WEIRD TALES would likely
not have taken it, though there is no record of which magazines received
submissions, if any.
Howard rewrote the story in 1932. changing the hero to Malachi Grim and the
title to "Blades of the Brotherhood," and shortening the story by a couple
of pages. This version, with the hero's name changed back to Kane, was finally
published by Donald Grant in RED SHADOWS (1968).
The Malachi Grim version was first published by the REH Foundation as a transcript
in September 2007 and in its book PIRATE ADVENTURES (2013). John Pocsik
rewrote the Kane version, adding a weird element, and published it in the
Arkham House anthology OVER THE EDGE (1964).
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