The Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard: Fists of Iron Round 2
REH Foundation Press
Year :
April 2026
Book No. : ISBN -13: 9781955446594 (Hardcover)
ISBN -13: 9781955446600 (Trade paperback)
ISBN -13: 9781955446617 (eBook)
ASIN: B0GX2ZXL4D (eBook)
Edition : Version 2.01 - Ultimate Edition
Format : Hardcover with dust jacket (6 x 9 inches)
Trade paperback (6 x 9 inches)
eBook (Kindle)
Pages : xxii plus 355
Cover : Tom Gianni
Illustrations : None
              The Collected Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard: Fists of Iron Round 2
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Contents
"Tall Lying in the Far East: Robert E. Howard, Sailor Steve Costigan, and the Narrative Idyll"
by Mark Finn (
Introduction)
Fists of Iron - Round 2
"The Pit of the Serpent"
"By the Law of the Shark"
"The Bull Dog Breed"
"Sailors’ Grudge"
"Fist and Fang"
"Winner Take All"
"Waterfront Fists"
"The Champion of the Forecastle"
"Alleys of Peril"
"Waterfront Law"
"Hard-Fisted Sentiment"
"The Yellow Cobra" (originally untitled)
"A Student of Sockology"
"Texas Fists"
"The Fightin’est Pair"
"Cultured Cauliflowers"
Appendix
"Blue River Blues"
"Sailors’ Grudge" (outline)
"The Battling Sailor" (incomplete, originally untitled)  
Untitled ("It was the end …")
Untitled ("The night Sailor Steve Costigan …")
"Alleys of Peril" (synopsis)
Untitled Mike O’Brien fragment ("Help! Help! They’re murderin’ me!")

"The Lord of the Ring" (part 2) by Patrice Louinet
Notes
Edited by Patrice Louinet, Christopher Gruber, Paul Herman and Rob Roehm.
Second in a series of four books.
Kindle utilizes the mobi format.
All of the REH stories and portions thereof come from Howard's original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons, when possible. Virtually all of the typescripts were scanned from the Glenn Lord collection, now at the University of Texas, Austin; the Robert E. Howard collection at Texas A&M University; or the typescript collection at Cross Plains Library.

The exceptions are:
"The Pit of the Serpent" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"The Bull Dog Breed"
is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"Sailors’ Grudge" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"Winner Take All" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"Waterfront Fists" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"The Champion of the Forecastle" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"Alleys of Peril" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"Waterfront Law" is from ACTION STORIES (1st publication).
"Texas Fists" is from FIGHT STORIES (1st publication).
"The Fightin’est Pair" is from ACTION STORIES (1st publication).
"Blue River Blues" is mostly from original typescript and the last couple pages are from the Glenn Lord retype.

Prepared for publication by Ståle Gismervik, Savage Studios.

Changes from the First Edition:
Source for the text of  Untitled ("It was the end …") changed from the Glenn Lord retype to the original REH typescript.