The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume One: Crimson Shadows by Robert E. Howard
Stuart Williams
I’d like to thank Rusty and Stuart for their consistent and wonderful support and most of all Jim and Ruth for making it all seem so easy with their fantastic work, thanks. Thanks must also go to Graziana who makes it all worthwhile.
Marcelo Anciano
THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED ROBERT E. HOWARD LIBRARY
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The Best of Robert E. Howard
Volume 1: Crimson Shadows
The Best of Robert E. Howard
Volume 2: Grim Lands
(forthcoming)
The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume One is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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*1 To avoid confusion I have used the modern terms for places and clans.—AUTHOR
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
The Shadow Kingdom...
Foreword
Introduction
The Shadow Kingdom
The Ghost Kings
The Curse of the Golden Skull
Red Shadows
The One Black Stain
The Dark Man
The Marching Song of Connacht
Kings of the Night
Recompense
The Black Stone
The Song of a Mad Minstrel
The Fightin’est Pair
The Grey God Passes
The Song of the Last Briton
Worms of the Earth
An Echo from the Iron Harp
Lord of the Dead
Untitled
“For the Love of Barbara Allen”
The Tide
The Valley of the Worm
The Dust Dance: Selections, Version II
The People of the Black Circle
Beyond the Black River
A Word from the Outer Dark
Hawk of the Hills
Sharp’s Gun Serenade
Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die
Appendices
Robert E. Howard: Twentieth-Century Mythmaker
A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard
Notes on the Original Howard Texts
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