SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS by Robert E. Howard (Sauk City: Arkham House,1946) Cover by Hannes Bok.
Fantasy/horror collection. Limited to 3004 copies.
Skull-Face is a fantasy novella originally serialized in Weird Tales (October through December, 1929). Clearly influenced by Sax Rohmer's opus Fu Manchu it substitutes a resuscitated Atlantean necromancer for the Asian villain. From the center of a web of crime and deceit he means to end Western world domination in order to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (lying dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.
Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) Cover by F.M. Stevenson • The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) Cover by J. Allen St. John • Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) Cover by Margaret Brundage.
Contents:
vii · Foreword · August Derleth
ix · Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (Weird Tales, October 1937)
xiii · Robert E. Howard: A Memoriam by H.P. Lovecraft (Fantasy Magazine, September 1936), as “In Memoriam: Robert E. Howard”; revised from “Robert Ervin Howard: 1906-1936” (The Phantagraph, August 1936)
xvii · A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price [A slightly different version appeared in The Ghost, May 1945 as “The Book of the Dead, Chapter 2, Robert Ervin Howard”.]
Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) [de Montour]
The Black Stone (Weird Tales, November 1931) [Cthulhu]
“The Horror from the Mound” (Weird Tales, May 1932)
The Cairn on the Headland (Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, January 1933)
Black Canaan (Weird Tales, June 1936)
The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) [Cthulhu]
“A Man-Eating Jeopard” (Cowboy Stories, June 1936) [Buckner Grimes]
The Hyborian Age (LANY Cooperative Publications, 1938) [The first half was published in The Phantagraph, (February, August, & October/November 1936)]
Skull-Face (Weird Tales, October 1929) [Kathulos]
Worms of the Earth (Weird Tales, November 1932) [Bran Mak Morn]
The Valley of the Worm (Weird Tales, February 1934) [James Allison]
“Skulls in the Stars” (Weird Tales, January 1929) [Solomon Kane]
“Rattle of Bones” (Weird Tales, June 1929) [Solomon Kane]
The Hills of the Dead (Weird Tales, August 1930) [Solomon Kane]
Wings in the Night (Weird Tales, July 1932) [Solomon Kane]
The Shadow Kingdom (Weird Tales, August 1929) [Kull]
“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” (Weird Tales, September 1929) [Kull]
Kings of the Night (Weird Tales, November 1930) [Bran Mak Morn; Kull]
The Phoenix on the Sword (Weird Tales, December 1932) [Conan]
The Scarlet Citadel (Weird Tales, January 1933) [Conan]
The Tower of the Elephant (Weird Tales, March 1933) [Conan]
Rogues in the House (Weird Tales, January 1934) [Conan]
Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) [Conan]
Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (Weird Tales, August 1938)
Famous Fantastic Mysteries (December, 1952) Cover by Lawrence. [reprint magazine]
Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard [Weird Tales, October 1929]
Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon [Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944]
“The Homecoming” by Ray Bradbury [Mademoiselle, October 1946]
“The Coat” by A.E.D. Smith [from POWERS OF DARKNESS edited by Philip Allan, 1934]
(London: Panther, 1976) Cover by Chris Achilleos. • (New York: Berkley, 1978) • (Japan)
