#robert e howard

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"Spectres in the Dark"

by Robert E. Howard unfinished story (published posthumously Spring 1985) (from Tales of Weird Menace)

A city is under siege from spectres that are haunting people and appear to be capable of possessing them, driving them into murderous rampages. This story doesn't go so far as to reveal what the cause of the epidemic is, but if the weird aside between the narrator and his brother in law is any indication, then it's some sort of Oriental hypnotism/mesmerism at play.

To be claer, this is an unfinished draft. It's not that the story is purposefully vague; it just peters out before it can get to the plot twist.

If we want to compare weird story beats here with other Howard works, compare the relationship between the MC and his sister to the one between the cowboy Steve Allison and Mildred.

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"The Jade God"

by Robert E. Howard unfinished story (published posthumously July 1992) (from Tales of Weird Menace)

Another night, another cursed treasure. This one APPEARS to be set in the antebellum South and has two men rushing to the defense of a third, who talks about "the jade god" right before he expires. And their locale is kind of isolated due to a recent flood. And the dead man had just entrusted a jade idol to one of his two would-be rescuers.

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Conan The Barbarian by Ernie Chan 1981

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SSOC art by Earl Norem

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"Yellow Laughter"

by Robert E. Howard unfinished fragment (published posthumously Winter 2008) (from Tales of Weird Menace)

A bizarre fragment, the setup of which I don't entirely understand. It looks like some sailor's boat was taken over by Chinese malcontents, one of whom he knows by name. The "yellow" paranoia is palpable, concluding with an image of all the invaders laughing at the MC while he rows away in a small watercraft, which he presumes is his means of escape. God only knows where this was going.

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Conan : Queen of the Black Coast by Mark Schultz

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Conan thing I sketched out while listening to one of the short stories, I didn’t really wanna clean it up, but I liked the shapes too much