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"Letter from the Board"
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"Blades
of the Brotherhood" (2) - Typescript
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Letter to Farnsworth Wright,
dated May 6, 1935,
"I always hate to write a letter like this . . ." - Typescript
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News & Events
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"Zukala's Jest" -
Typescript (poem)
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"Zukala's Hour" - Typescript
(poem)
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"The Tower of Zukala"
- Typescript (poem)
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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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