1921
"Bill Smalley and the Power of the Human Eye" submitted to Adventure
and Western Story |
1922-1923
"The Mystery of Summerton Castle" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird
Tales & Chicago Ledger |
"Lal Singh—Adventurer" ("Lal Singh, Oriental Gentleman") submitted
to Adventure |
"The Feminine of the Species" ("The Female of the Species") submitted
to Argosy-Allstory |
"The Phantom of Old Egypt" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Iron Terror" submitted to Cosmopolitan |
1923
15 February 1923
"Unhand Me, Villain" published
in The Tattler, Brownwood High School
|
1 March 1923
"Aha!, or the Mystery of the Queen’s
Necklace" published in The Tattler, Brownwood High School
|
15 March 1923
"The Sheik" published in The
Tattler, Brownwood High School
|
Spring 1923
"The Sea" (verse) published in The Baylor United Statement
|
May-June 1923
"Under the Great Tiger" printed
in The All-Around Magazine [Tevis Clyde Smith’s amateur paper]
|
26 May 1923
"What the Nation Owes the South"
(essay) published in Brownwood Bulletin
|
8 June 1923
"When Napoleon down in Africa" (verse, unpublished)
"Neolithic Love Song" (verse)
|
22 June 1923
"a poem" sent to The Campus, student paper of Southern
Methodist U.
"The helmsman gaily rode down the rickerboo" (verse, unpublished)
"Now bright, now red, the sabers sped among the racing
horde" (verse, unpublished)
|
29 June 1923
"The Sea" (verse) published in Cross Plains Review
|
July 1923
"Under the Great Tiger" (part
two) printed in The All-Around Magazine [Tevis Clyde Smith’s amateur
paper]
|
7 July 1923
"The Phantom of Old Egypt" [ms. lost] sent to Weird Tales
"The Dook of Stork" (parody playlet)
|
30 July 1923
"Bill Boozy was a pirate bold" (verse, unpublished)
"Out of Asia the tribesmen came" (verse, unpublished)
|
4 August 1923
"I shall write a story entitled ‘The Last Man’"
"A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs" (verse, unpublished)
"A hundred years the great war raged" (verse, unpublished)
|
5 October 1923
"I’m writing a book...for my own amusement.... Some of the
characters are Ammon the Amalekite... Swift-Foot...Tostig the Mighty...Hakon...Bran
Mak Morn, who was the greatest chief the Picts ever had...." |
1924
"Spear and Fang" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Hyena" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Lost Race" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Fightin’ Dumbbell" [ms. lost] submitted to Short Story |
"44-40 or Fight" [ms. lost] submitted to Western Story
|
late fall 1924
"Spear and Fang" accepted by Weird Tales (before Thanksgiving)
"wrote 2 stories of prize ring, submitted to sport story
monthly," rejected (possibly "The Fightin’ Dumbbell"?)
"short tale of the west sent to magazine dealing exclusively
in Wild West stories," rejected (probably "44-40 or Fight")
|
December 1924
"The Hyena" accepted by Weird Tales
"The Lost Race" returned for revision
"2 more stories" submitted with "The Lost Race" when resubmitted
|
1925
"The Trail of the Single Foot" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Crimson Line" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales, Adventure |
"Windigo! Windigo!" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales, Adventure,
Argosy, Tales of Mystery & Magic, Ace-High |
"In the Forest of Villefere" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Hand of Obeah" submitted to Adventure |
"Drums of Horror" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Street of Grey-Beards" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Last White Man" submitted to Weird Tales |
"Two Wrongs Make a Wright" [ms. lost] submitted to Police Gazette |
"Tom Sharkey - Mankiller" [ms. lost] (no indication to whom submitted) |
"Wolfshead" submitted to Weird Tales
|
early 1925
"several mss. submitted and returned"
"In The Forest of Villefere" written, laid aside and forgotten
for "several months"
"five weird tales" submitted to Weird Tales rejected
"in a row"
"In The Forest of Villefere" submitted to Weird Tales,
accepted
|
6 January 1925
"The Kissing of Sal Snooboo" (verse) published in The Tattler,
Brownwood High School
"The Ideal Girl" (article) published in The Tattler,
Brownwood High School
|
7 January 1925
"The Lost Race" accepted by Weird Tales
"The Hyena" accepted by Weird Tales
"they [Weird Tales] sent back what I consider my
masterpiece so far"
|
30 January 1925
"Hills of the North! Lavender hills" (verse, unpublished)
"Dark are your eyes" (verse, unpublished)
"How your right thudded on my jaw" (verse, unpublished)
"I am the Spirit of War!" (verse, unpublished)
"I lay in Yen’s opium joint" (verse, unpublished)
|
25 February 1925
"The Bombing of Gon Fonfew" (verse, unpublished)
|
17 March 1925
"The Sappious Few Menchew" (parody)
|
6 April 1925
"The Post of the Sappy Slipper" (parody)
"The Bore of the Cowed" (sketch)
|
24 May 1925
"When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham" (verse)
|
July 1925
"Spear and Fang" published
in Weird Tales [$15.00 - POSR; $16.00 - Lord]
|
16 July 1925
"And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd sneered"
(verse, "in Carl S.’s style")
|
August 1925
"In The Forest of Villefere"
published in Weird Tales [$8.00]
|
6 August 1925
"I tell you this, my friend" (verse, unpublished)
|
28 August 1925
"Mingle my dust with the burning brand" (verse, unpublished)
"Roses laughed in her pretty hair" (verse, unpublished)
|
September/October 1925
"The Isle of the Eons" begun (not finished)
"Wolfshead" written
"...wrote a few more short stories and sent 2 of these
to" Weird Tales
|
9 October 1925
"Wolfshead" accepted by Weird Tales
"All the crowd" (verse, unpublished)
|
Fall 1925
"Many stories which he started, he never finished....He would
halt suddenly in the midst of a short story and start writing a serial or
a long narrative rhyme; would toil for days on it, afire with enthusiasm,
then suddenly abandon it and never write another line on the subject.... he
did finish many short stories and a few longer ones, and sent them off. They
came back with soul-killing regularity."
"He wrote a great deal of jingling, jangling verse on the
order of Robert W. Service...."
|
After Christmas 1925
Learns "Wolfshead" to be given cover |
1926
"Vulture’s Roost" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
"Yellow Laughter" submitted to Weird Tales |
"Men of the Shadows" submitted to Weird Tales |
"John Morrissey - Adventurer" [article, ms. lost] submitted to Adventure |
"No Man Needs Three Hands" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
14 January 1926
"I’ve been trying to write poetry all day... I wrote a poem
for Ottie’s magazine"
|
20 January 1926
Farnsworth Wright requests carbon of "Wolfshead," as the artist
has not returned it and it is not yet typeset
|
23 January 1926
REH wires Wright re: "Wolfshead"; has no carbon, rewrites
from memory and mails the next day
|
15 March 1926
"Illusion" (verse) published in Daniel Baker Collegian
"Fables for Little Folks" (verse) published in Daniel
Baker Collegian
|
16 March 1926
"Men of the Shadows" rejected by Weird Tales
|
April 1926
"Wolfshead" published in Weird
Tales [$40.00 + $10.00 for rewrite]
|
14 April 1926
"Roundelay of the Roughneck" (verse) published in Daniel
Baker Collegian
"The Dancer" (verse, unpublished) ["A gibbering wind that
whoops and drones"]
"Destiny?" (verse, unpublished)
"Laughter" (verse, unpublished)
"We are the duckers of crosses" (verse, unpublished)
"The shades of night were falling faster" (verse, unpublished)
|
7 May 1926
"I’m sending you [T.C. Smith] a flock of poetry... I’ll send
you the Mistress poem when I can discover the ms."
|
25 May 1926
"Futility" (verse) published in Daniel Baker Collegian
"Tarantella" (verse) published in Daniel Baker Collegian
|
26 May 1926
"What the Nation Owes the South"
(essay) printed in The Brownwood Bulletin
|
23 June 1926
"I think I’ll drop my efforts at verse for the present and
go back to prose..."
"‘Give ye of my best though the dole be meager’" (verse,
unpublished)
"Eternity" (verse, unpublished)
"Serpent" (verse, unpublished)
"Shadows" (verse, unpublished)
"Destiny" (verse, unpublished) ["I am a white trail"]
"Adventure" (verse, unpublished) ["I am the spur"]
"Libertine" (verse, unpublished)
"Nun" (verse, unpublished)
"Prude" (verse, unpublished)
"Adventurer" (verse, unpublished) ["My feet are set on
the outward trails"]
"Poet" (verse, unpublished)
"Dancer" (verse, unpublished) ["I’ve caught the rhythm
of the universe"]
"Dreamer" (verse, unpublished) ["I live in a world apart"]
"Sailor" (verse, unpublished)
"Cowboy" (verse, unpublished)
"Toper" (verse, unpublished)
"Girl" (verse, unpublished)
"Deeps" (verse, unpublished)
"Thor" (verse, unpublished)
"Mystic" (verse, unpublished)
"Orientia" (verse, unpublished)
"The Mountains of California" (verse, unpublished)
"Monarchs" (verse, unpublished)
"Lust" (verse, unpublished)
"The Alamo" (verse, unpublished)
"San Jacinto" (verse, unpublished)
"Romance" (verse, unpublished)
"Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies" (verse,
unpublished)
|
6 August 1926
"Arcadian Days" (verse, unpublished)
|
21 August 1926
"Twilight on Stonehenge" (verse)
"Ocean-Thoughts" (verse, unpublished)
|
Fall 1926
"The Shadow Kingdom" started
"He pounded away at his typewriter, deriving more real
pleasure out of his rhymes than he did at anything else."
"The Ride of Falume" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The Song of the Bats" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
sends off poetry to "various magazines," rejected
|
27 October 1926
"After the Game" printed in
Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
"Sleeping Beauty" printed
in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
|
30 October 1926
"The Campus at Midnight" (verse) ("one of my latest")
|
3 November 1926
Untitled story ("I having been
by...") printed in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket |
1927
"The Dream Snake" submitted to Weird Tales |
"Sea Curse" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Shadow Kingdom" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Valley of the Golden Web" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales |
"Sanctuary of the Sun" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales, Ghost
Story |
"Solomon Kane" ["Red Shadows"] submitted to Weird Tales |
"Skulls in the Stars" submitted to Argosy-Allstory, Weird Tales |
"Footprints of Terror" [ms. lost] submitted to Argosy
|
January 1927
"The Lost Race" published in
Weird Tales [$30.00]
|
13 January 1927
"Private Magrath of the A.E.F."
(verse) published in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
"The Thessalians" published
in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
|
20 January 1927
"Ye College Days" published
in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
|
10 February 1927
"Cupid vs. Pollux" published
in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
|
21 April 1927
"The Reformation - A Dream"
published in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
|
May 1927
"The Song of the Bats" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$3.50]
|
Summer 1927
"Remembrance" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The Shadow Kingdom" completed, laid aside
|
Late summer 1927
"The Shadow Kingdom" rewritten, laid aside
"The Dream Snake" written
"Sea Curse" written
"The Dream Snake" and "Sea Curse" submitted to Weird
Tales, "with a number of rhymes"
|
Circa late August-early September 1927
"Take some honey from a cat" (verse, unpublished)
"The Gates of Nineveh" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Where Strange Gods Squall" ("Yes, I might have learned
her..."; "‘The blue road!’") (parodic sketches)
"Revenge" (verse)
"The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts" (verse)
"Legend" (sketch)
"Against the blood red moon a tower stands" (verse)
"Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell" (verse)
|
Circa September 1927
"The Shadow Kingdom" submitted to Weird Tales
"The Dream Snake" accepted by Weird Tales
"Sea Curse" accepted by Weird Tales
"Crete" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The Moor Ghost" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The Riders of Babylon" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Easter Island" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The baron of Fenland sat at ease" (verse)
|
October 1927
"The Ride of Falume" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$4.50]
"The Shadow Kingdom" accepted by Weird Tales
|
Circa October 1927
"The Fastidious Fooey Mancucu" (parody)
"The Builders" [variant] (verse, unpublished) ["We reared
Bab-ilu’s towers"]
"The Gods Remember" [variant] (verse, unpublished) ["Lost
wonders of the ages"
"Lilith" [variant] (verse, unpublished) ["They hurled me
from the mire"]
"Memories" ["Shall we remember, friend of the morning"]
|
Circa fall 1927
"The Gates of Nineveh" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The Harp of Alfred" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Forbidden Magic" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" accepted by Weird Tales
"Where Strange Gods Squall" ("There it was, the greatest
geisha...")
"What’s become of Waring" (verse, parody of Browning)
"The Robes of the Righteous" (verse)
"After the trumps are sounded" (verse)
"The Ballad of King Geraint" (verse) probably written
Weird Tales "rejected a short story which he had
considered to be a cinch sale" (perhaps either "The Valley of the Golden
Web" or "Sanctuary of the Sun," both mss. lost -- the latter was submitted
also to Ghost Story, so may be likely candidate)
"Solomon Kane" ["Red Shadows"] written, submitted to Argosy
|
1928
"Spanish Gold on Devil Horse" submitted to Argosy, Adventure |
"The Isle of Pirates’ Doom" submitted to Argosy, Adventure, Red
Blooded |
"The Cat and the Skull" ["Delcardes’ Cat"] submitted to Weird Tales |
"The Screaming Skull of Silence" ["The Skull of Silence"] submittedto
Weird Tales |
"The Right Hand of Doom" submitted to Weird Tales |
"Out of the Deeps" submitted to Weird Tales, Ghost Stories |
"Rattle of Bones" submitted to Weird Tales |
"Drums of the Sunset" submitted to Cross Plains Review |
"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" submitted to Fight Stories, Argosy,
Ghost Stories |
"The Weepin’ Willow" submitted to Fight Stories, Argosy |
"The Right Hook" submitted to Fight Stories, Argosy |
"The Touch of Death" ["The Fearsome Touch of Death"] submitted to
Argosy, Ghost Stories, Weird Tales |
"Skull-Face" submitted to Weird Tales |
"Skulls and Orchids" submitted to Weird Tales, Argosy |
"The Chiming of the Gong" ["The Striking of the Gong"] submitted to
Argosy |
"The Altar and the Scorpion" submitted to Weird Tales
|
January 1928
"The Riders of Babylon" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$5.50]
|
Circa January 1928
"Wolfsdung" (parody)
"Keep women, thrones and kingly lands" (verse, unpublished)
"The world goes back to the primitive, yea" (verse, unpublished)
"I do not sing of a paradise" (verse, unpublished)
"Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool" (verse, unpublished)
"The east is red and I am dead" (verse, unpublished)
"Symbols" (verse)
"Romany Road" (verse)
"Love" (verse)
"The Chant Demoniac" (verse)
"A Man" (verse, unpublished) ["I tore a pine from the mountain
crag"]
"The Grey Lover" (verse, unpublished)
"Life" (verse, unpublished) ["About me rise the primal
mists"]
"King Hootus" (satiric sketch)
|
February 1928
"The Dream Snake" published
in Weird Tales [$20.00]
|
20 February 1928
"Solomon Kane" ["Red Shadows"] returned by Argosy,
submitted to Weird Tales
"A typical small town" (dramatic sketch)
|
March 1928
"The Hyena" published in Weird
Tales [$25.00]
"Solomon Kane" ["Red Shadows"] accepted by Weird Tales,
Wright asks Howard to come up with another title
|
Circa March 1928
"Keresa, Keresita" (verse)
"The spiders of weariness come on me" (verse, unpublished)
"Follow me, oh grim Elijah" ["The Dust Dance," selections:
version II]
"Moses was our leader and Moses knew his Hebrews" ["The
Odyssey of Israel"] (verse)
"Secrets" (verse, unpublished)
"Grim, grim, grim the elephants were chanting" (verse,
unpublished)
"The Chinese Gong" (verse, unpublished)
"How To Select a Successful Evangelist" (verse)
"The Choir Girl" (verse)
"A Song of Cheer" (verse)
"Repentance" (verse)
"I am MAN from the primal, I" (verse)
|
Circa spring 1928
"deluges" Argosy with stories and rhymes, all rejected
rewrites West of the Rio Grande for Fowler Gafford;
work drags on for months
"Moon Mockery" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Dead Man’s Hate" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"long story" rejected by Weird Tales
"ms. after ms. came back from" Weird Tales and Argosy
"Skulls in the Stars" accepted by Weird Tales
|
April 1928
"Remembrance" (verse) published in Weird Tales [$3.50]
|
26 April 1928
Singers in the Shadows (verse collection) rejected
by Albert & Charles Boni;
included:
"Zukala’s Hour"
|
"Night Mood"
|
"The Sea Woman"
|
"The Bride of Cuchulain"
|
"The Stranger"
|
"Shadows"
|
"Rebel"
|
"White Thunder"
|
"The Men That Walk With Satan"
|
"Thus Spake Sven the Fool"
|
"Sacrifice"
|
"The Witch"
|
"The Lost Galley"
|
"Hadrian’s Wall"
|
"Attila Rides No More"
|
"The Fear That Follows"
|
"Destination"
|
"The Tavern"
|
"The Road To Hell"
|
"The Twin Gates"
|
|
May 1928
"Sea Curse" published in Weird
Tales [$17.00 - POSR; $20.00 - Lord]
|
June 1928
"Kid Lavigne Is Dead" (verse) published in The Ring
|
Circa June 1928
"The Rump of Swift" (parody)
"A Young Wife’s Tale" (verse)
"Lesbia" (verse)
"A Roman Lady" ("There is a strangeness in my soul") (verse)
"They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright"
(verse, unpublished)
"They gave me a dollar and thirty cents when they let me
outa my cell" (verse, unpublished)
"A cringing woman’s lot is hard" (verse, unpublished)
"Nights To Both Of Us Known" (verse)
|
Circa first half 1928
"Surrender - Your Money or Your Vice" (movie review) probably
written
|
July 1928
"The Gates of Nineveh" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$4.00]
|
18 July 1928
"Kid Dula Due To Be Champion"
(article) published in the Brownwood Bulletin
|
Circa July 1928
"A Warning To Orthodoxy" (verse)
|
August 1928
"Red Shadows" published in
Weird Tales [$80.00 - POSR; $20.00 - Lord]
|
30 August 1928
Letter from Truett Vinson mentions "your poem on the treatment
of whores"
|
September 1928
"The Harp of Alfred" published in Weird Tales [$4.50]
"Surrender - Your Money or Your
Vice" (movie review) appeared in The Junto
"Them" (article) appeared
in The Junto
"Age" (verse) appeared in The Junto
|
13 September 1928
Unnamed book rejected by Dodd, Mead (probably Singers in
the Shadows)
|
October 1928
"More Evidences of the Innate Divinity
of Man" (article) appeared in The Junto
"A Hairy Chested Idealist Sings" (verse) appeared in The
Junto
|
20 October 1928
Letter to Harold Preece mentions "a long letter to the editor
to whom I sold a tale entitled ‘The Shadow Kingdom’," in which he included
"all my views" on the subject of Atlantis and Lemuria [lost]
|
Circa October/November 1928
"Rattle of Bones" accepted by
Weird Tales
Post Oaks and Sand Roughs completed and submitted
to unnamed publisher
|
November 1928
"To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew"
(article) appeared in The Junto
"Swings and Swings" (verse) appeared in The Junto
"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" accepted by Ghost Stories
|
2 November 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
one) published in the Cross Plains Review [$20.00 for story]
|
9 November 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
two) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
16 November 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
three) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
23 November 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
four) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
30 November 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
five) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
Circa November 1928
"The wine in my cup is bitter dregs" (verse, unpublished)
"Swords glimmered up the pass" (verse, unpublished)
"Rebellion" (verse)
"A Great Man Speaks" (verse, unpublished)
"Yodels of Good Sneer" (verse, unpublished)
"Noah was my applesauce" (verse, unpublished)
"Let me live as I was born to live" (verse, unpublished)
"Adam’s loins were mountains" (verse, unpublished)
"The Ballad of Monk Kickawhore" (verse, unpublished)
"A Ballad of Insanity" (verse, unpublished)
"I hate the man who tells me that I lied" (verse, unpublished)
"A Far Country" (verse)
"Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight" (verse, unpublished)
"Old Faro Bill was a man of might" (verse, unpublished)
"Rebel souls from the falling dark" (verse, unpublished)
"My heart is a silver drum tonight" ["The Call of Pan"]
(verse)
"A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne" (verse, unpublished)
"Flaming Marble" (verse) accepted by The Poets’ Scroll
if Howard will subscribe
|
December 1928
"Easter Island" (verse) published in Weird Tales [$3.50]
(tells H. Preece it was "written two years ago")
"The Galveston Affair" (article)
appeared in The Junto
"A Song For Men That Laugh" (verse) appeared in The
Junto
"To The Evangelists" ["The Flood"] (verse) appeared in
The Junto
|
7 December 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
six) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
14 December 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
seven) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
28 December 1928
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
eight) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
Circa December 1928
"Out in front of Goldstein’s, over by the Loop" (song parody,
unpublished)
"The Deed Beyond the Deed" (verse)
"An American" (verse)
"There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea" (verse,
unpublished)
"Stay not from me, that veil of dreams that gives" ["Stay
Not From Me"] (verse)
"My Children" (verse, unpublished)
"haven’t head from the novel" (probably Post Oaks and
Sand Roughs)
"The women come and the women go" (verse, unpublished)
"Silence Falls on Mecca’s Walls" (verse, originally untitled)
"The chariots were chanting in the gloom" (verse, unpublished)
"Flappers flicker and flap and flirt" (verse, unpublished)
"I hold all women are a gang of tramps" (verse, unpublished)
"Love is singing soft and low" (verse, unpublished)
|
Late fall 1928
"The Touch of Death" accepted by Weird Tales
"Skull-Face" accepted by Weird Tales
|
1929
"The Shadow of the Beast" submitted (no indication to whom submitted) |
"The Fear At the Window" ["Restless Waters"] submitted (no indication
to whom submitted)
|
January 1929
"Skulls in the Stars" published
in Weird Tales [$30.00]
"Flaming Marble" (verse) published in The Poets’ Scroll
"Ambition In the Moonlight"
appeared in The Junto
|
4 January 1929
"Drums of the Sunset" (part
nine) published in the Cross Plains Review
|
February 1929
"Crete" (verse) published in Weird Tales [$4.00]
"Rebellion" (verse) published in The Poets’ Scroll
|
Circa February 1929
"Ancient English Balladel" (verse)
"At the Inn Of the Gory Dagger" (verse, unpublished)
2 letters to T.C. Smith detailing Howard’s writing career
to this point
"The Case of the College Toilet" (parody)
"And there were lethal women, flaming ice and fire" (verse,
unpublished)
"A haunting cadence fills the night with fierce longing"
(verse, unpublished)
"Through the mists of silence there came a sound" (verse,
unpublished)
"The Mysteries" (verse, unpublished)
|
Circa March 1929
"Black Dawn" [variant] (verse)
"The Path of the Strange Wanderers" (verse)
"At the Bazaar" (verse, unpublished)
"‘Hatrack! a voice came to me dimly...." (parody)
"By old Abie Goldstein’s pawnshop where the ghetto meets
the quay" (verse, unpublished)
"Crowd-Horror" returned by Argosy with request to
cut length
"Bastards All!" (parody)
"Songs of Bastards" (parody)
|
April 1929
"The Apparition In the Prize Ring"
["The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux"] published in Ghost Stories, bylined
"John Taverel" [$95.00]
"Moon Mockery" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$3.50]
"A Lady’s Chamber" (verse) published in American Poet
|
Circa April 1929
"The iron harp that Adam christened Life" (verse, unpublished)
"On my return here I found a returned mss. from Adventure
with a line or two from the assistant editor telling me to submit some more
of my work"
"Crowd-Horror" accepted by Argosy ("still too long
but they will make necessary changes themselves")
Received advance sheets for "Rattle of Bones" from Weird
Tales
"To the Contented" (verse, unpublished)
"High Blue Halls" (verse, unpublished)
"An American Epic" (verse, unpublished)
|
May 1929
"Skulls and Dust" (verse) published in American Poet
|
June 1929
"Rattle of Bones" published
in Weird Tales [$20.00]
|
Circa June 1929
"Black Seas" (verse)
|
July 1929
"The Pit of the Serpent" published
in Fight Stories [$90.00]
"Forbidden Magic" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$3.50]
|
20 July 1929
"Crowd-Horror" published in
Argosy [$100.00]
|
Circa July 1929
"Tides" (verse) accepted for Contemporary Verse
"Red Thunder" (verse) accepted for JAPM: The Poetry
Weekly
"Irony" (dramatic sketch)
|
August 1929
"The Shadow Kingdom" published
in Weird Tales [$100.00]
|
15 August 1929
"The Moon of Skulls" returned by Jungle Stories
|
September 1929
"The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
published in Weird Tales [$20.00]
"The Moor Ghost" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$4.00]
|
October 1929
"Skull-Face" (part one) published
in Weird Tales [$300.00]
|
November 1929
"Skull-Face" (part two) published
in Weird Tales
|
December 1929
"Skull-Face" (part three)
published in Weird Tales |
1930
January 1930
"Dead Man’s Hate" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$7.00]
|
Circa January 1930
asks T.C. Smith for address of Ten-Story Book
"finally got back my rhymes from the Scroll"
inquired about "Iron Men" to Fiction House
|
February 1930
"The Bull Dog Breed" published
in Fight Stories [$90.00]
"The Touch of Death" (as
"The Fearsome Touch of Death") published in Weird Tales [$18.00] [letter
to TCS ca. January 1930 [SL 1 #29] says he tried other magazines with this
story]
|
Circa February 1930
Fiction House (Fight Stories) took another Costigan
story ("Fist and Fang?")
"Iron Men" located and accepted
|
Circa March 1930
"The Moon of Skulls" "will appear in June"
"next issue" (of Weird Tales) "appears my ‘A Song
Out of Midian" (verse)
"The Song of a Mad Minstrel" (verse) accepted by Weird
Tales
"Black Chant Imperial" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Shadows on the Road" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Sailor’s Grudge" published
in Fight Stories [$75.00]
"Whispers" (verse)
"The Dark Man" accepted for Strange Stories (planned
companion mag to Weird Tales)
"Kings of the Night" accepted for Weird Tales (submitted
to Strange Stories but Wright accepted for WT)
"The Autumn of the World" ["Autumn"] (verse)
"A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans" (verse, unpublished)
"Aw Come On and Fight!" (verse, unpublished)
"The Song of the Sage" (verse, unpublished)
|
April 1930
"A Song Out of Midian" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$6.00] (tells T.C. Smith he wrote this "something more than a year ago")
|
Circa early April 1930
"Ambition" (verse, unpublished)
"Whispers on the Nightwinds" (verse)
"The Gladiator and the Lady" (verse)
"Winner Take All" accepted by Fight Stories
|
Circa April 1930
"The Mutiny of the Hellroarer" (parody)
"The Return of the Seafarer" [variant] (verse)
|
May 1930
"Fist and Fang" published in
Fight Stories [$100.00]
"Shadows on the Road" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$11.50]
"The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" accepted for Strange Stories
"Waterfront Fists" accepted by Fight Stories
|
Circa May 1930
"A Stirring of Green Leaves" (verse)
"The Rhyme of the Viking Path" [variant of "Thor’s Son"]
(verse)
"A Marching Song of Connacht" (verse)
|
June 1930
"Iron Men" (as "The Iron Man")
published in Fight Stories [$200.00]
"The Moon of Skulls" (part
one) published in Weird Tales [$200.00]
|
3 June 1930
"The Night of the Wolf" rejected by Argosy
|
Circa 9 June 1930
Tells TCS he wants to get started on writing for Oriental
Stories
|
July 1930
"Winner Take All" published
in Fight Stories [$80.00]
"The Moon of Skulls" (part
two) published in Weird Tales
|
Circa July 1930
"Lives and Crimes of Notable Artists" (humorous sketch)
"The Voice of El-Lil" accepted for Oriental Stories
"Red Blades of Black Cathay" written (with Tevis Clyde
Smith)
"Then Stein the peddler with rising joy" (verse, unpublished)
"Alleys of Peril" sold to Fight Stories
"I was once, I declare, a grog-shop man" (verse, unpublished;
"a little parody on one of Soivice’s stuff")
"The Fangs of the Copperhead" written ("which I intend
to try to sell Fiction House. It took me about three hours to write it...")
[No story by this title known]
|
August 1930
"The Hills of the Dead" published
in Weird Tales [$70.00]
|
Circa August 1930
"Voyages With Villains" (humorous sketch)
"Red Blades of Black Cathay" accepted for Oriental Stories
"Wings in the Night" accepted for Weird Tales
"Waterfront Law" ["The TNT Punch"] sold to Fiction House
"They cast her out of the court of the king" ["Daughter
of Evil"] (verse)
|
September 1930
"Waterfront Fists" published
in Fight Stories [$90.00]
"Black Chant Imperial" published in Weird Tales
[$6.00]
|
Circa September 1930
Tells H.P. Lovecraft he plans to take his advice and write
a series of stories about Bran Mak Morn
|
Circa October 1930
"Hawks of Outremer" accepted for Oriental Stories
"The Children of the Night" accepted for Weird Tales
"Reuben’s Brethren" (verse) quoted in letter to HPL
|
October-November 1930
"The Voice of El-Lil" published
in Oriental Stories [$90.00]
|
November 1930
"Champ of the Forecastle" published
in Fight Stories [$65.00]
"Kings of the Night" published
in Weird Tales [$120.00]
|
24 November 1930
"Slow sift the sands of Time; the yellowed leaves" ["The Sands
of Time"] (verse)
|
Circa November-December 1930
Working on second draft of collaborative story with T.C. Smith
(probably "The Honor of the Game")
|
Circa December 1930
"The Footfalls Within" accepted by Weird Tales
"The Blood of Belshazzar" accepted for Oriental Stories
"The Black Stone" accepted for Weird Tales
"The Thing on the Roof" complete but not yet submitted
Story rejected by Fiction House ("The fight was simply
a dramatic description of the Goddard-Choynsky bout with a few changes"—perhaps
"Double-Cross"?)
"I have a number of manuscripts that are practically ready
to be sent off, and a number more which lack only a little work to be completed."
"If you haven’t sent ‘The Honor of the Game’ to Argosy,
send it first to Street & Smith, Sport Story..."
Received letter from Wilfred B. Talman regarding submission
to Texaco company’s magazines
|
1931
January 1931
"Waterfront Law" [as "The TNT
Punch"] published in Action Stories [$75.00]
"Alleys of Peril" published
in Fight Stories [$80.00]
Abandons sequel to "Skull-Face"
|
Circa January 1931
H.P. Lovecraft encourages Howard to make fictional use of
"Kelly the conjure-man"
|
29 January 1931
Letter from Wilfred B. Talman states: "About a week ago I
learned that an article from you had come into this office" (i.e., the Texaco
Star—the article was "The Ghost of Camp Colorado")
|
Circa January-February 1931
"Sign of the Snake" sold to Action Stories [REH to
T.C. Smith, 9 May 1931: "They changed the name of the character—McClarney—to
Steve Costigan, though the style of the tale was nothing at all like Steve."]
Street & Smith inquired about taking over Costigan
series; Howard offered to create another series for them
|
February-March 1931
"Red Blades of Black Cathay"
published in Oriental Stories [$118.00]
"The Song of a Mad Minstrel" (verse) published in Weird
Tales [$8.00]
|
Circa March 1931
Costigan yarn (probably "Texas Fists") sold to Fiction
House
"I did quite a bit of work, sent off a number of manuscripts,
and then got to loafing again."
|
Circa March-April 1931
Letter from Lenore Preece and Booth Mooney proposing collection
of Junto
verses, Virgin Towers
|
April 1931
"The Ghost of Camp Colorado"
(article) published in The Texaco Star [$28.26]
|
10 April 1931
"Riders of the Sunset" returned by Fiction House
|
16 April 1931
"Riders of the Sunset" sent to Argosy (formerly rejected
by Adventure and Fiction House) (Later rejected by Argosy and
sent to Street & Smith).
"The Black Bear Bites" sent to Argosy (formerly
rejected by Adventure and Far East) (Later rejected by Argosy)
|
20 April 1931
"The House of Peril" sent to Fiction House
|
22 April 1931
"Shackled Mitts" sent to Fiction House (Later rejected)
|
April-May 1931
"The Children of the Night" published in Weird Tales
[$60.00]
|
April-May-June 1931
"Hawks of Outremer" published in Oriental Stories [$120.00]
|
May 1931
"Texas Fists" published in Fight Stories [$75.00]
|
9 May 1931
Farnsworth Wright suggests story about Baibars (subject of
"The Sowers of the Thunder")
|
Circa mid-May 1931
Street & Smith took another story ("The Good Knight")
"Fiction House has been turning down Steve regular."
John Byrne (Fiction House editor) suggests story "in which
Steve is recovering from an overdose of belladonna that some tricky opponent
has put into his eyes before the bout....They get him to box an exhibition
bout for society...."
|
17 May 1931
"The Fightin’est Pair!" sent to Fiction House (Later accepted)
|
18 May 1931
"Riders of the Sunset" rejected by Street & Smith
|
20 May 1931
"College Socks" sent to Street & Smith (Later accepted)
|
Circa 20 May 1931
"In the time I’ve been back from Marlin—a little less than
two weeks—I’ve written three Costigan stories, a Kid Allison tale, a Western
adventure yarn and a long historical novelet. Also been studying the Crusades
and the Irish-Danish wars. And I’ve got plenty to do yet; the Texaco Star
appears to want more articles, Farnsworth wants the Baibars story, and I’ve
got some stuff I wrote at Marlin [ca. 9 May]—a ring story I want to rewrite
for Street & Smith, and a pseudo-scientific junk I want to finish and
get off to the Claytons."
Story ("The House of Peril" ["Blow the Chinks Down"]) sold
to Action Stories ["The yarn I sold Action Stories had characters
named Mike Dorgan and Bill McGlory and I just wonder if Dorgan isn’t changed
to Costigan before it appears in print."]
Submitted story based on Byrne’s belladonna suggestion
("In High Society" ["Cultured Cauliflowers"])
|
22 May 1931
"Cultured Cauliflowers" sent to Fiction House (Later rejected)
|
28 May 1931
"The Ghost of Camp Colorado"
(article) published in the Coleman Democrat-Voice
|
Circa May 1931
"The Sowers of the Thunder" written
|
Circa late May 1931
"College Socks" sold to Street & Smith
|
June 1931
"The Sign of the Snake" published
in Action Stories [$75.00]
"The Ghost of Camp Colorado"
(article) published in Frontier Times
|
1 June 1931
"Spears of Clontarf" submitted to Strange Tales (later
rejected)
|
4 June 1931
"Kelly the Conjure-Man" sent to Texas Company (Texaco Star)
(later rejected)
|
6 June 1931
"The Fighting Fury" sent to Street & Smith (later rejected)
"The Thing on the Roof" sent to Claytons (Strange Tales)
(later rejected)
|
7 June 1931
"A Killer’s Debt" sent to Adventure (later rejected)
[ms. lost?]
"One Shanghai Night" sent to Fiction House (later accepted)
|
18 June 1931
"The Black Bear Bites" sent to Fiction House (later rejected) |
19 June 1931
"Spears of Clontarf" sent to Adventure (later rejected)
"The Thing on the Roof" sent to Argosy (later rejected)
|
20 June 1931
"A Killer’s Debt" sent to Street & Smith (later rejected)
[ms. lost?]
"The Fighting Fury" sent to McFadden
|
Circa June 1931
Sold 3 fight stories to Street & Smith (probably referring
to "The Man With the Mystery Mitts," "The Good Knight," and "College Socks")
"The Blood of Belshazzar" accepted for Oriental Stories
some time previously
"In the past 3 weeks I’ve managed...to pound out four prize-ring
short stories, an adventure short, a Western short, a fact article [probably
"Kelly the Conjure Man"] and a long historical novelet...."
|
1 July 1931
"Spears of Clontarf" sent to Argosy (later rejected)
|
6 July 1931
"The Sowers of the Thunder" sent to Oriental Stories
(later accepted)
|
9 July 1931
"The Horror from the Mound" sent to Claytons (later rejected)
|
16 July 1931
"The Thing on the Roof" resent to Weird Tales (later
accepted)
|
22 July 1931
"Circus Fists" sent to Fiction House
|
Circa August 1931
Wright requests story about Tamerlane
"The Lame Man" ("Lord of Samarcand") written
"Several months ago Wright rejected ["The Thing on the
Roof"]....Claytons likewise rejected it, saying the plot was too thin....Argosy
rejected it....Then Farnsworth asked to see it again, when he accepted my
The Sowers of the Thunder for Oriental Stories. In his latest letter he accepted
it...."
"The Horror from the Mound" accepted by Weird Tales
[previously rejected]
|
Autumn 1931
"The Blood of Belshazzar" published
in Oriental Stories [$115.00]
|
September 1931
"The Footfalls Within" published
in Weird Tales [$56.00]
|
25 September 1931
"College Socks" published in
Sport Story [$100.00]
|
30 September 1931
"The Last Day" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
"Moonlight on a Skull" (verse) accepted by Weird Tales
|
Circa September 1931
"Lizzen my children and you shall be told" (verse)
|
October 1931
"The House of Peril" (as "Blow
the Chinks Down") published in Action Stories [$75.00]
"The Gods of Bal-Sagoth"
published in Weird Tales [$140.00]
|
25 October 1931
"The Man With the Mystery Mitts"
published in Sport Story [$100.00]
|
29 October 1931
"The People of the Dark" returned by Strange Tales
for rewrite
|
Circa October 1931
Sold Costigan yarn (probably "Night of Battle")
"Who Is Grandpa Theobold?" (verse)
|
November 1931
"Breed of Battle" published
in Action Stories [$80.00]
"The Black Stone" published
in Weird Tales [$56.00]
|
Circa November 1931
"The Lame Man" ("Lord of Samarcand") accepted for Oriental
Stories, Wright requests "more interesting title"
"Fighting Nerves" returned by Street & Smith for rewrite
Wrote a Costigan yarn
|
December 1931
"Circus Fists" published in
Fight Stories [$70.00]
"The Dark Man" published
in Weird Tales [$85.00]
|
25 December 1931
"The Good Knight" published
in Sport Story [$90.00]
"The Grey God Passes" (rewritten fantasy version of "Spears
of Clontarf") rejected by Weird Tales
|
Circa December 1931
"Arkham" included in letter to Lovecraft; states it was "recently
accepted" by Weird Tales |
1932
Winter 1932
"The Sowers of the Thunder"
published in Oriental Stories [$160.00]
|
January 1932
"Dark Shanghai" published in
Action Stories [$75.00]
|
Circa January 1932
"The People of the Dark" sold to Clayton (Strange Tales)
"The Cairn on the Headland" sold to Clayton (Strange
Tales)
|
Circa January-February 1932
"Worms of the Earth" accepted by Weird Tales
|
February 1932
"Vikings of the Gloves" published
in Fight Stories [$65.00]
"The Thing on the Roof" published
in Weird Tales [$40.00]
"Cimmeria" (verse)
|
March 1932
"Night of Battle" published
in Fight Stories [$60.00]
"The Last Day" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$3.50]
|
10 March 1932
"The Frost-Giant’s Daughter" rejected by Weird Tales
"The Phoenix on the Sword" returned for revision by Weird
Tales
"Wings in the Night" at the printer
"Worms of the Earth" Wright "want(s) to schedule soon"
|
Circa March 1932
"The Gold and the Grey" (verse) enclosed in letter to HPL
("a rhyme which I wrote when younger than I am now") Wright rejected
last 3 stories, and a bunch of verse
"The God in the Bowl" written?
"The Road of Azrael" rejected by Soldiers of Fortune
|
Spring 1932
"Lord of Samarcand" published
in Oriental Stories [$140.00]
|
April 1932
Working on preliminary outline for "Marchers of Valhalla"
"The Phoenix on the Sword" accepted for Weird Tales
"The Tower of the Elephant" accepted for Weird Tales
|
Circa April 1932
"Hear ye the tale of ‘Fighting Nerves’. I wrote this story—a
Kid Allison yarn—as a complete novelet for Sport Story. I wrote it, I think,
three times, before I sent it off. Back it came with the request to cut out
the saloon atmosphere and reduce the length [see under "Circa November 1931"].
I re-wrote it and returned it to the same magazine. It came back with the
statement that they were all stocked up with fight stories—requested me to
keep it several months and return it, with a letter reminding them of it.
Not wanting to wait that long if I could help it—a natural desire of a penniless
adventurer like myself—I rewrote most of it, changing the names of the characters,
and sent it to Fight Stories. Back it came with the request to cut it down
in length. I rewrote it and sent it back. Back it came, with the remark that
it was acceptable, but they couldn’t find a place for it just then. I should
keep it a month or so, and then they’d like to see it some more. So I sent
it to Sport Stories, with a letter reminding them of what they had said.
It was returned with no explanation—merely a rejection slip. So I sent it
to Fiction House—and back it came with the statement that Fight Stories had
been—or was going to be—taken off the stands." [REH to T.C. Smith, Robert
E. Howard, Selected Letters 1931-1936, #60]
"A Weird Ballad" (verse)
"Little brown man of Nippon" (verse, unpublished)
"Valley of the Lost" accepted for Strange Tales
"The Hoofed Thing" ("Usurp the Night") sent to Swanson
(amateur publisher in North Dakota); Bates [Strange Tales] rejected
earlier
|
May 1932
"The Horror from the Mound"
published in Weird Tales [$65.00]
|
Circa May 1932
Wright rejected 4 of last 6 stories; also rejections from
Bates and Byrne
"The Toy Rattle Murder Case" (parody)
"John Brown" (verse)
"Abe Lincoln" (verse)
"John Kelley" (verse, unpublished)
"The Tom Thumb Moider Mystery" (parody)
"Authorial Version of Duna" (verse)
|
Circa 24 May 1932
"Marchers of Valhalla" rejected by Weird Tales
|
27 May 1932
"The Dwellers Under the Tombs" rejected by Weird Tales
|
June 1932
"People of the Dark" published
in Strange Tales [$134.00]
|
1 June 1932
"Gunman’s Debt" rejected by Fiction House
|
31 June 1932
"The Lion of Tiberias" returned for revision
|
July 1932
"Wings in the Night" published
in Weird Tales [$118.00] ("it’s been in the editorial office for some
two years")
|
August 1932
"Arkham" (verse) published in Weird Tales [$1.00]
|
Circa Late Summer 1932
"Dreaming in Israel" (verse)
"Samson’s Broodings" (verse)
|
September 1932
"An Open Window" (verse) published in Weird Tales [$1.00]
|
Circa September 1932
"A Glass of Vodka" (parody)
"One Blood Strain" (verse, unpublished)
|
4 October 1932
"The Valley of the Lost" returned by Bates, due to suspending
of Strange Tales
"The Road of the Eagles" returned by Wright for revision
"The Phoenix on the Sword" scheduled for December
"The Scarlet Citadel" scheduled for January
Wright gives permission to use quote from EH Price’s "Girl
from Samarcand" in "Black Colossus"
|
15 October 1932
"With a Set of Rattlesnake Rattles" (prose poem)
|
November 1932
"Worms of the Earth" published
in Weird Tales [$120.00]
|
December 1932
"The Phoenix on the Sword" published
in Weird Tales [$85.00]
|
Circa December 1932
"Lines to G.B. Shaw" (verse)
"One of my latest sales concluded with a sexual intercourse"
("Black Colossus")
"A Mick in Israel" (verse, unpublished)
"Musings" (verse) "Envoy" (verse, unpublished)
"The editor took liberties with ‘The Cairn on the Headland’.
In the original version, O’Brien was born in America. The editor changed
this and made O’Brien a native of Ireland, but neglected to change the line:
‘We were countrymen in that we born in the same land.’ That would seem to
make ‘Ortali’ an Irishman, too, when I intended him for an American-born Italian."
|
1933
January 1933
"The Cairn on the Headland"
published in Strange Tales [$140.00 - Lord; letter ca. January says
$144.00]
"The Scarlet Citadel" published
in Weird Tales [$140.00]
|
19 January 1933
"The House of Arabu" rejected by Weird Tales
"Black Colossus" will have cover in June
|
March 1933
"The Tower of the Elephant"
published in Weird Tales [$95.00]
|
6 March 1933
"The Shadow of the Vulture" sold
|
7 March 1933
"Marchers of Valhalla" returned by Oriental Stories
("too much supernatural")
"Lion of Tiberias" advance sheets received
|
Circa Spring 1933
Retains Otis Adelbert Kline as agent
|
April 1933
"Autumn" (verse) published in Weird Tales [$3.00]
|
29 April 1933
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" received by Kline
Agency
|
May 1933
"Moonlight on a Skull" (verse) published in Weird Tales
[$4.00]
|
11 May 1933
"Yellow Cobra" received by Kline
"Turkish Menace" sent to Argosy by Kline
"Jade Monkey" with Kline already
"Cultured Cauliflowers" with Kline already
|
19 May 1933
British publisher Denis Archer inquires about possible short
story collection
|
22 May 1933
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" returned by Argosy
to Kline
|
26 May 1933
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" sent to Magic
Carpet by Kline
|
31 May 1933
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish
Menace" accepted by Magic Carpet [$67.00]
|
June 1933
"Black Colossus" published
in Weird Tales [$130.00]
|
7 June 1933
"Knife, Bullet and Noose" received by Kline
"Law Shooters of Cowtown" received by Kline
|
15 June 1933
Short story collection submitted to Denis Archer, includes:
"Wings in the Night" |
"The Tower of the Elephant" |
"Kings of the Night" |
"The House of Arabu" |
"The Valley of the Lost" |
"The Scarlet Citadel" |
"The Horror from the Mound" |
"The Children of the Night" |
"Wild Water" received by Kline
|
16 June 1933
Kline comments on "Wild Water"
"the other westerns you sent me are short..."
|
Circa June 1933
Tells Lovecraft he will send a copy of "The Shadow of the
Vulture" when it appears
|
July 1933
"The Lion of Tiberias" published
in Magic Carpet (formerly Oriental Stories) [$110.00]
"The Man on the Ground"
published in Weird Tales [$20.00]
|
1 July 1933
"Mountain Man" received by Kline
|
22 July 1933
"Talons in the Dark" received by Kline
"A New Game for Dorgan" received by Kline
|
7 August 1933
"Lord of the Dead" received by Kline
|
31 August 1933
"Teeth of Doom" received by Kline
|
Circa August 1933
"A Dungeon Opens" (verse) included in letter to Derleth ("...written
several years ago")
|
September 1933
"Xuthal of the Dusk" (as "The
Slithering Shadow") published in Weird Tales [$120.00]
|
4 September 1933
"Old Garfield’s Heart" latest sale to Weird Tales
|
12 September 1933
"The Black Moon" received by Kline
|
17 September 1933
"Black Canaan" received by Kline
|
25 September 1933
"Black Canaan" sent to Jessica Miller, Kline’s New York representative
|
Circa September 1933
"Lately I’ve been trying to write detective yarns, something
entirely new for me, and haven’t had much success—in fact none, so far, except
for a short yarn, ‘Talons in the Dark’, written in San Antonio last spring,
and which Kline, as my agent, sold to a magazine called Strange Detective
Stories.... (Kline marketed another yarn for me since I wrote the above.)"
|
October 1933
"The Pool of the Black One"
published in Weird Tales [$110.00]
|
16 October 1933
"The Voice of Death" received by Kline
|
23 October 1933
"The People of the Serpent" received by Kline
"Hawks Over Egypt" received by Kline
|
27 October 1933
"A Two-Fisted Santa Claus" received by Kline
|
Circa October 1933
Modern American Poetry published, includes 2 Howard
poems:
"To a Woman" (verse)
|
"One Who Comes at Eventide" (verse)
|
|
Circa October-November 1933
Wright has:
"Iron Shadows in the Moon"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"Rogues in the House"
Working on "The Devil in Iron"
"The Garden of Fear" sent to Crawford (amateur publisher)
"The Valley of the Lost" sent to Astounding
|
8 November 1933
"Guns of the Mountains" received by Kline
"The Ghost with the Silk Hat" received by Kline
"A Gent from Bear Creek" received by Kline
|
10 November 1933
"The Frost King’s Daughter" ("Gods of the North") sent to
The Fantasy Fan
|
11 November 1933
"Swords of the Hills" received by Kline
|
15 November 1933
"Gold from Tartary" received by Kline
|
16 November 1933
"The Valley of the Lost" rejected by Astounding
|
Circa November 1933
"The Beast from the Abyss" sent to HPL
|
December 1933
"Talons in the Dark" (as "Black
Talons") published in Strange Detective Stories [$55.25 ($65.00)]
"Old Garfield’s Heart" published
in Weird Tales [$35.00]
|
2 December 1933
"The House of Suspicion" received by Kline
|
14 December 1933
"The Devil in Iron" recently accepted by Weird Tales
|
19 December 1933
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" returned to Kline,
due to suspension of Magic Carpet (had been accepted in May 1933)
|
28 December 1933
"The Daughter of Erlik Khan" received by Kline
|
Circa December 1933
Daigh (editor of Strange Detective Stories) has:
"Teeth of Doom"
|
"People of the Serpent"
|
Landed one yarn with Action Stories since its return
("Mountain Man"?)
|
1934
January 1934
"Alleys of Darkness" published
in Magic Carpet, bylined "Patrick Ervin" [$45.90 ($54.00)]
"The Shadow of the Vulture"
published in Magic Carpet [$140.00]
"Rogues in the House" published
in Weird Tales [$100.00]
|
2 January 1934
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" sent to V.I. Cooper,
Kline Agency New York representative
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9 January 1934
Denis Archer returns short story collection, suggests novel
along same lines
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12 January 1934
"Swords of Shahrazar" received by Kline
|
13 January 1934
"Names in the Black Book" received by Kline
|
25 January 1934
"The Hand of the Black Goddess" received by Kline
|
29 January 1934
"A Stranger in Grizzly Claw" received by Kline
|
February 1934
"Teeth of Doom" (as "Fangs of
Gold") published in Strange Detective Stories [$85.00 ($100.00)]
"The Tomb’s Secret" published
in Strange Detective Stories, bylined "Patrick Ervin" [$72.25 ($85.00)]
"The Valley of the Worm"
published in Weird Tales [$80.00]
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12 February 1934
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" returned to Kline
Agency, had been at Thrilling Adventures
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13 February 1934
"Sailor Costigan and the Turkish Menace" sent to William Kofoed
|
21 February 1934
"A Stranger from Grizzly Claw" accepted by Fiction House
"Swords of Shahrazar" returned by Kline after being returned
by Margulies (Thrilling Adventures) for rewrite
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March-April 1934
"Mountain Man" published in
Action Stories [$46.75 (55.00)]
|
March 1934
"Gods of the North" published
in The Fantasy Fan
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10 March 1934
"Sons of Hate" received by Kline
|
19 March 1934
"The Road to Bear Creek" received by Kline
|
April 1934
"Iron Shadows in the Moon"
(as "Shadows in the Moonlight") published in Weird Tales [$120.00]
|
30 April 1934
"Swords of Shahrazar" returned again, still too long
Violet Cooper, Kline New York representative, has received
REH’s synopsis for western for Cook, may not be long enough
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May 1934
"The Slugger’s Game" published
in Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine [$35.00]
"Names in the Black Book"
published in Super-Detective Stories [$85.00 ($100.00)]
"Queen of the Black Coast"
published in Weird Tales [$115.00]
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21 May 1934
"had just finished up an unusually long yarn [perhaps The
Hour of the Dragon] when I received a rush order from another editor"
"People of the Black Circle" to start in September
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22 May 1934
The Hour of the Dragon sent to Denis Archer
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30 May 1934
"...I’ve had no luck with Super-Detective after
the sale of one novelet" ["Names in the Black Book"]
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May-June 1934
"Guns of the Mountain" published
in Action Stories [$42.50 ($50.00)]
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June 1934
"General Ironfist" published
in Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine [$35.00]
"The Haunter of the Ring"
published in Weird Tales [$60.00]
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20 June 1934
"The House of Om" (synopsis) received by Kline
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Circa June 1934
Strange Detective had a Steve Harrison story yet unpublished
when suspended
|
July 1934
"The Garden of Fear" published in Marvel Tales
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23 July 1934
"The Moon of Zembabwei" received by Kline
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27 July 1934
"Iron Clad Fists" received by Kline
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August 1934
"The Scalp Hunter" published
in Action Stories [$51.00 ($60.00)]
"Sluggers of the Beach"
published in Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine [$35.00]
"The Devil in Iron" published
in Weird Tales [$115.00]
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10 August 1934
Refers to verses previously sent to Charles Hornig for The
Fantasy Fan
|
13 August 1934
"A Elkins Never Surrenders" received by Kline
|
16 August 1934
"Black Hound of Death" received by Kline
|
September 1934
"The People of the Black Circle"
(part one) published in Weird Tales [$250.00]
"The Voices Waken Memory" (verse) published in The Fantasy
Fan
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12 September 1934
"Black Canaan" received by Kline
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27 September
"The Ghost of Camp Colorado"
(article) reprinted in the Coleman Democrat-Voice
"A Gent from Bear Creek"
published in Action Stories [$46.75 ($55.00)] ("The
paragraphs marked with a pencil [on copy sent to Lovecraft]
in ‘Gent from Bear Creek’ are not mine. The enthusiasm of the editor prompted
him to insert them. They doubtless help the story.")
"Swords of Shahrazar" published
in Top-Notch [$124.90 ($147.00)]
"The People of the Black Circle"
(part two) published in Weird Tales
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5 October 1934
"Vultures of Whapeton" received by Kline
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Circa October 1934
Received letter informing that Denis Archer in receivership
"My latest sales have been a 23,000 word Oriental adventure
yarn to Top-Notch [could be "The Daughter of Erlik Khan," but doubtful; more
likely "Hawk of the Hills" or "Blood of the Gods"]), and a two-part Conan
serial ["Beyond the Black River"]..."
"What I feel is one of the best stories I’ve ever written
was a 30,000 word Western, the first draft of which I knocked off in two
and a half days, but which I have my doubts if anybody will accept it" ("The
Vultures of Whapeton"?)
"Moon of Zambebwei" recently accepted by Wright
|
November 1934
"The People of the Black Circle"
(part three) published in Weird Tales
|
6 November 1934
"Three-Bladed Doom" (24,000 word, "short" version) received
by Kline
|
8 November 1934
"Private Magrath of the A.E.F."
(verse) reprinted in Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket
"Alleys of Treachery" received
by Kline
|
12 Novemberm 1934
"Black Canaan" rewrite received by Kline, sent to Miller in
New York following day
|
19 November
"War on Bear Creek" received by Kline
|
December 1934
"The Road to Bear Creek" published
in Action Stories [$42.50 ($50.00)]
"The Daughter of Erlik Khan"
published in Top-Notch [$195.50 ($230.00)]
"A Witch Shall Be Born"
published in Weird Tales [$155.00]
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4 December 1934
"A Elston to the Rescue" (rewrite of "A Elkins Never Surrenders"
-- see 13 August 1934) received by Kline
|
10 December 1934
"Pigeons From Hell" received by Kline
|
26 December 1934
"A Man-Eating Jeopard" received by Kline
|
Circa December 1934
"Pigeons From Hell" received by Kline |
1935
January 1935
"The Treasures of Tartary"
published in Thrilling Adventures [$42.50 ($50.00)]
"Babel" (verse) published in The Fantasy Fan
|
28 January 1935
"The Silver Heel" synopsis returned to Kline by Margulies
|
29 January 1935
Letter from C.L. Moore with thanks for sending "The Sword
Woman"
|
Circa January-February 1935
The Hour of the Dragon accepted by Wright "not long
ago"
|
February 1935
"The Haunted Mountain" published
in Action Stories [$ ?]
"Moon of Zambebwei" (as "The
Grisly Horror") published in Weird Tales [$99.00 ($110.00)]
|
March 1935
"Teeth of Gwahlur" (as "Jewels
of Gwahlur") published in Weird Tales [$155.00]
|
1 March 1935
"The Peaceful Pilgrim" returned by Action Stories with
suggestions for revision from Byrne
|
April 1935
"War on Bear Creek" published
in Action Stories [$54.00 ($60.00)]
|
22 April 1935
"Cultured Cauliflowers" received by Kline
"Sailor Dorgan and the Yellow Cobra" received by Kline
|
May 1935
"Beyond the Black River" (part
one) published in Weird Tales [$ ?]
|
6 May 1935
Letter to Wright pleading for money, at this time Weird
Tales owes REH over $800
|
27 May 1935
"Three-Bladed Doom" (24,000 word, "short" version) received
by Kline Agency; first submission seems to have been to Top Notch,
which is listed but no data given
|
28 May 1935
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" received by Kline
|
June 1935
"The Feud Buster" published
in Action Stories [$ ?]
"Hawk of the Hills" published
in Top-Notch [$ ?]
"Beyond the Black River"
(part two) published in Weird Tales
|
8 June 1935
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" received by Kline; may have
been first sent to Argosy (listed first on submission schedule, but
no data given)
|
Circa June 1935
"I’ve got to get back to my latest pirate yarn"
|
July 1935
"Blood of the Gods" published
in Top-Notch [$ ?]
|
10 July 1935
"Black Canaan" returned to Kline (from ??)
|
23 July 1935
"Red Nails" sent to Weird Tales yesterday
been concentrating on adventure stuff recently
|
August 1935
"The Peaceful Pilgrim" (as
"Cupid from Bear Creek") published in Action Stories [$ ?]
|
19 August 1935
"Black Canaan" submitted to Weird Tales
"Hawks Over Egypt" received by Kline Agency (rewrite? --
see 23 October 1933)
|
26 August 1935
"Hawks Over Egypt" submitted to Argosy by Kline Agency
|
31 August 1935
A Gent from Bear Creek (novel) received by Kline
|
September 1935
"The Challenge from Beyond"
published in Fantasy Magazine (fan publication) [Howard wrote one
chapter of round-robin story]
|
3 September 1935
A Gent from Bear Creek (novel) sent to Caxton Printers
by Kline
|
10 September 1935
"Hawks Over Egypt" returned to Kline Agency by Argosy
|
October 1935
"The Riot at Cougar Paw" published
in Action Stories [$ ?]
"Boot-Hill Payoff" (revised
for Robert Enders Allen [Chandler Whipple]) published in Western Aces
[$78.75 (110.00)]
|
7 October 1935
"The Girl on the Hell Ship" received by Kline
|
8 October 1935
"Weary Pilgrims on the Road" sold to Action Stories
Kline suggests submitting A Gent From Bear Creek
(novel) to British publisher; says "The American publisher who is considering
the original has not yet reported"
"The Girl on the Hell Ship" sent to Frank Armer (Spicy
Adventures)
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God"
probably not suitable for Thrilling Adventures
"Sailor Dorgan and the Jade Monkey" returned by Wright,
as Magic Carpet definitely folded, submit clean copy and will put
on offer again
|
10 October 1935
"Black Canaan" accepted by Weird Tales
|
November 1935
"The Man-Eaters of Zamboula"
(as "Shadows in Zamboula") published in Weird Tales [$120.00]
|
1 November 1935
Made 3 new markets since writing Derleth last (4 July?): Western
Aces ("Boot-Hill Payoff"), Thrilling Mystery ("Graveyard Rats"),
and Spicy Adventures ("The Girl on the Hell Ship" ["The She-Devil"]).
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11 November 1935
A Gent from Bear Creek (novel) sent to Macmillan by
Kline
|
15 November 1935
"The Devils of Dark Lake" rejected by Popular Publications
|
28 November 1935
seriously contemplating devoting all my time and efforts to
western writing
|
December 1935
"The Apache Mountain War" published
in Action Stories [ ?]
The Hour of the Dragon
(part one) published in Weird Tales [part one $160.00; part two $170.00;
parts three-five $ ?]
|
31 December 1935
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) sent to Adventure
by Kline
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" sent to Top Notch
by Kline
|
Circa December 1935
"The Purple Heart of Erlik" sold to Trojan by Otto Binder,
Kline New York representative |
1936
January 1936
The Hour of the Dragon
(part two) published in Weird Tales
|
6 January 1936
"Guests of the Hoodoo Room" rejected by Margulies (Thrilling
Adventures)
|
9 January 1936
"Vulture’s Sanctuary" returned by Fiction House (story had
been sent "long ago" and Byrne thought it had been returned, with explanation,
before Christmas; Byrne liked it, but Action and Lariat need
no material at this time)
|
11 January 1936
Otto Binder writes Kline that he’s to meet with Margulies
about Howard
|
15 January 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) returned to Kline Agency
by Adventure
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" returned to Kline by Top
Notch
|
17 January 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) sent to Dime Adventure
by Kline
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" sent to Short Stories
by Kline
|
27 January 1936
"Hawks Over Egypt" sent to Blue Book by Kline Agency
|
31 January 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" received by Kline (a
rewrite? -- see 8 October 1935)
|
February 1936
"Pilgrims to the Pecos" published
in Action Stories [$60.00]
"Graveyard Rats" published
in Thrilling Mystery [$ ?]
"The Hyborian Age" (part
one) published in The Phantagraph (fan publication)
The Hour of the Dragon
(part three) published in Weird Tales
|
4 February 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" sent to Dime Adventure
by Kline
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" returned to Kline by Short
Stories
|
5 February 1936
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" sent to Complete Stories
by Kline
|
6 February 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) returned to Kline Agency
by Dime Adventure
|
7 February 1936
"Hawks Over Egypt" returned to Kline Agency by Blue Book
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) sent to Thrilling
Adventures by Kline Agency
|
10 February 1936
"Hawks Over Egypt" sent to Adventure by Kline Agency
|
11 February 1936
tells HPL, "I’ve had little opportunity to do any writing
of any kind for the past month. In fact this letter is the longest bit of
writing I’ve done since about the 20th of January."
|
13 February 1936
"Hawks Over Egypt" returned to Kline Agency by Adventure
|
Circa February 1936
"The Dragon of Kao-Tsu" sold to Trojan by Binder
|
March 1936
The Hour of the Dragon
(part four) published in Weird Tales
|
2 March 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" returned to Kline by
Dime Adventure
|
3 March 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" sent to Short Stories
by Kline
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" returned to Kline by Complete
Stories
|
4 March 1936
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" sent to Adventure by
Kline
|
9 March 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) returned to Kline by Thrilling
Adventure
|
10 March 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) sent to Complete Stories
by Kline
|
18 March 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" returned to Kline by
Short Stories
|
19 March 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" sent to Adventure
by Kline
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" returned to Kline by Adventure
|
20 March 1936
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" sent to Blue Book by
Kline
|
31 March 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) returned to Kline by Complete
Stories
|
Circa March 1936
"A Man-Eating Jeopard" sold to Street & Smith by Binder
|
April 1936
"Pistol Politics" published
in Action Stories
"The Girl on the Hell Ship"
(as "The She-Devil") published in Spicy Adventure Stories, bylined
"Sam Walser" [$48.60 ($54.00)]
"Iron-Jaw" published in
Dime Sports [$ ?]
The Hour of the Dragon
(part five) published in Weird Tales
|
1 April 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) sent to New Mystery
Adventures by Kline
|
6 April 1936
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood" returned to Kline by Blue
Book
|
8 April 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" returned to Kline by
Adventure
|
9 April 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" sent to Argosy
by Kline
|
10 April 1936
"Hawks Over Egypt" submitted to "S&S Complete" (i.e.,
Street & Smith’s Complete Stories?)
|
15 April 1936
made 3 new markets since writing Derleth last: Dime Sport
("Fists of the Desert" [as "Iron-Jaw"], Cowboy Stories ("A Man-Eating
Jeopard"), and Complete Stories ("Sons of the Hawk" [published as "The
Country of the Knife"])
Just now I have a chance of starting a new prize-fight
series for a new sport magazine, and maybe a pirate series for an adventure
publication. But I get to write so little these days I may not make either
of them.
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16 April 1936
"A Ring-Tailed Tornado" received by Kline
|
23 April 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" returned to Kline by
Argosy
|
24 April 1936
"The Trail of the Blood-Stained God" sent to "S&S Complete"
(Street & Smith Complete Stories?) by Kline
|
27 April 1936
"Murderer’s Grog" received by Kline
|
28 April 1936
"Three-Bladed Doom" (short version) returned to Kline by New
Mystery Adventures
|
Circa April 1936
"Sons of the Hawk" sold to Street & Smith by Binder
"Black Wind Blowing" sold to Standard by Binder
|
9 May 1936
"You have built a world of paper and wood" (verse) quoted
to Derleth
I haven’t written a weird story for nearly a year, though
I’ve been contemplating one dealing with Coronado’s expedition on the Staked
Plains in 1541. A good theme if I can develop it. ["Nekht Semerkeht"]
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11 May 1936
Binder writes to Kline about "favorable outlook for Howard"
"Fists of the Revolution" received by Kline
|
20 May 1936
"Hawks Over Egypt" returned to Kline by Complete Stories
|
21 May 1936
Binder writes to Kline about seeing Jack Byrne, leaving him
with a list of Howard’s stuff:
"Vultures of Wahpeton"
|
"Trail of the Blood-Stained God"
|
"Three-Bladed Doom"
|
"Swords of the Red Brotherhood"
|
"Hawks Over Egypt"
|
"Black Vulmea’s Vengeance"
|
Kline list shows "Three-Bladed Doom" "long version, 42,000
wds" sent to Argosy May 1936, notes "hold for a while"
"Hawks Over Egypt" submitted to Short Stories by
Kline
|
Circa May 1936
"Murderer’s Grog" sold to Trojan by Binder
"A Elston to the Rescue" sold to Popular by Binder
|
June 1936
"Evil Deeds at Red Cougar" published
in Action Stories [$ ?]
"A Man-Eating Jeopard" published
in Cowboy Stories [$49.50 ($55.00) - Lord; $27.50 - Binder]
"Desert Blood" published
in Spicy Adventure Stories, bylined "Sam Walser" [$ ?]
"Black Wind Blowing" published
in Thrilling Mystery [($40.00)]
"Black Canaan" published
in Weird Tales [$108.00 ($120.00)
|
5 June 1936
Letter from Binder to REH asking if ½¢ a word
is okay to Winford Publications (Smashing Novels); REH handwritten
response in margin that it’s okay, "I think this yarn has been turned down
by most of the better paying mags, anyway"
Binder also offers congratulations on Pike Bearfield stories
sold to Argosy
"Hawks Over Egypt" returned to Kline by Short Stories
|
11 June 1936
Howard commits suicide
|
19 June 1936
"A Man-Eating Jeopard" published
in the Cross Plains Review
|
27 June 1936
A Gent From Bear Creek (book) shipped to Paradise last
Monday by Binder
|
Circa June 1936
"A Gent from the Pecos" sold to Munsey by Binder [$80.00 (72.00)]
"Gents on the Lynch" sold to Munsey by Binder [$85.00 (76.50)]
-- [Howard apparently sold the above two stories to Argosy
directly, and paid Kline the 10% commission due; they are listed on Otto Binder’s
list of sales for 1936]
"The Dead Remember" sold to Munsey by Binder
"Son of the White Wolf" sold to Standard by Binder
|
July 1936
"Red Nails" (part one) published
in Weird Tales [$ ?]
|
August 1936
"High Horse Rampage" published
in Action Stories [$ ?]
"Sons of the Hawk" (as "The
Country of the Knife") published in Complete Stories [($120.00)]
"The Hyborian Age" (part
two) published in The Phantagraph (fan publication)
"Always Comes Evening" (verse) published in The Phantagraph
(fan publication)
|
15 August 1936
"The Dead Remember" published
in Argosy [$17.50]
|
August-September 1936
"Red Nails" (part two) published
in Weird Tales
|
September 1936
"‘No Cowherders Wanted’" published
in Action Stories [$ ?]
"The Dragon of Kao Tsu" published
in Spicy Adventure Stories, bylined "Sam Walser" [$26.50]
"The Curly Wolf of Sawtooth"
published in Star Western [$60.00 - Lord; $30.00 - Binder]
|
Fall 1936
"Solomon Kane’s Homecoming" (verse) published in Fanciful
Tales (fan publication)
|
October 1936
"The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humbolts"
published in Action Stories [$ ?]
"Red Nails" (part three)
published in Weird Tales
|
3 October 1936
"A Gent from the Pecos" published
in Argosy [$40.00]
|
17 October 1936
"Gents on the Lynch" published
in Argosy [$42.50]
|
31 October 1936
"The Riot at Bucksnort" published
in Argosy [$ ?]
|
October-November 1936
"The Hyborian Age" (part three)
published in The Phantagraph (fan publication)
|
November 1936
"The Purple Heart of Erlik"
published in Spicy Adventure Stories, bylined "Sam Walser" [$26.00]
"The Black Hound of Death"
published in Weird Tales [$90.00 ($100.00)]
|
12 November 1936
"The Ghost of Camp Colorado"
(article) reprinted in the Coleman Democrat-Voice
|
28 November 1936
"Vultures’ Sanctuary" published
in Argosy [$ ?]
|
December 1936
"The Vultures of Wahpeton"
(as "The Vultures of Whapeton") published in Smashing Novels [$135.00
($150.00)]
"Son of the White Wolf" published
in Thrilling Adventures [$50.00]
"The Fire of Asshurbanipal"
published in Weird Tales [$100.00]
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