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"Foreword" by
Thomas Kovacs
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"Introduction" by Glenn Lord
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Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, circa October
1928
"Salaam; I could have gone ..."
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"Skulls" (poem)
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"Ghost Dancers" (poem)
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"Long Ago" (poem)
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"Tiger Girl" (poem)
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"Let the Gods Die" (poem)
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"Swamp Murder" (poem)
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"The Cooling of Spike McRue" (poem)
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"A Legend" (poem)
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"The Song of the Gallows Tree" (poem)
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"Song Before Clontarf" (poem)
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"The Ghost With the Silk Hat"
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"Graveyard Rats"
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"Teeth of Doom"
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"The Mark of a Bloody Hand"
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"Spears of Clontarf"
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"A Gent from the Pecos"
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Limited edition of 500 copies.
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Published to mark the 50th anniversary
of Howard’s death.
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There are two hardcover copies, one retained
byThomas Kovacs and one given to Glenn Lord.
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As of early 2000 there were 500 sets
of pages, with 200 bound in a reddish orange paper with a rat design, and
120 more in an undecorated tan paper (“after he lost the first cover design”).
Another “80 were lost in a flood,” with 100 more as yet unbound, but intended
to appear as hardcovers.
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