The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Howard originally wrote “The Fire of Asshurbanipal” as a straight Oriental adventure story. He later rewrote the story, adding supernatural elements, for its publication in Weird Tales.

The Haunter of the Ring

Originally published in Weird Tales, June 1934.

The Hills of the Dead

Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1930.

The Hoofed Thing

First published as “Usurp the Night” in Weirdbook Three, 1970.

The Horror From the Mound

Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1932.

The House of Arabu

First published as “Witch From Hell’s Kitchen” in Avon Fantasy Reader #18, Avon, 1952.

In the Forest of Villefére

Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1925.

Kelly the Conjure-Man

First published in The Howard Collector #5, Summer 1964.

The Little People

First published in Coven 13, January 1970.

The Man on the Ground

Originally published in Weird Tales, July 1933.

The Noseless Horror

First published in Magazine of Horror #31, February 1970.

Old Garfield’s Heart

Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1933.

Out of the Deep

First published in Magazine of Horror #18, November 1967.

People of the Dark

Originally published in Strange Tales, June 1932.

Features Conan the Reaver, not generally considered to be the same character as Howard’s more famous Conan of Cimmeria, although he is quite similar.

Pigeons From Hell

First published in Weird Tales, May 1938.

Rattle of Bones

Originally published in Weird Tales, June 1929.

Restless Waters

First published in Witchcraft and Sorcery #10, Fantasy Publishing Company, 1974.

Possible alternate title: “The Fear at the Window.”

Sea Curse

Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1928.

The Shadow of the Beast

First published in The Shadow of the Beast (George Hamilton, 1977).

Spectres in the Dark

First published Cromlech #1, Marc A. Cerasini, Spring 1985.

The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux (version 2)

First published in The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard (Del Rey, 2008).

There are two versions of this story: the original version written in the third person and originally published in Ghost Stories in 1929, and this one, written in the first person with more emphasis on the supernatural elements.

The Thing on the Roof

Originally published in Weird Tales, February 1932.

The Valley of the Lost

First published as “Secret of Lost Valley” in Startling Mystery Stories, Spring 1967.

Wolfshead

Originally published in Weird Tales, April 1926.

Worms of the Earth

Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1932.

Poems

A Dull Sound as of Knocking

First published in A Rhyme of Salem Town and Other Poems, Robert E. Howard Properties, 2002.

A Legend of Faring Town

First published in Verses in Ebony, George Hamilton, 1975.

A Song of the Werewolf Folk

First published in Etchings and Odysseys #10, The Strange Company, 1987.

An Open Window

Originally published in Weird Tales, September 1932.

Dead Man’s Hate

Originally published in Weird Tales, January 1930.

The Dead Slaver’s Tale

First published in Weirdbook #8, W. Paul Ganley, 1974.

The Dweller in Dark Valley

First published in Magazine of Horror #11, November 1965.

The Fear that Follows

First published in Singers in the Shadows, Donald M. Grant, 1970.

Fragment

Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1937.

Moon Mockery

Originally published in Weird Tales, April 1929.

The Moor Ghost

Originally published in Weird Tales, September 1929.

Musings

First published in Witchcraft & Sorcery #5, January-February 1971.

One Who Comes at Eventide

Originally published in Modern American Poetry, The Galleon Press, 1933.

Remembrance

Originally published in Weird Tales, April 1928.

The Song of a Mad Minstrel

Originally published in Weird Tales, February-March 1931.

The Symbol

First published in Ariel #1, Morningstar Press, Autumn 1976.

The Tavern

First published in Singers in the Shadows, Donald M. Grant, 1970.

To a Woman

Originally published in Modern American Poetry, The Galleon Press, 1933.

Up, John Kane!

First published in Up, John Kane! and Other Poems, Roy Squires, 1977.

Which Will Scarcely Be Understood

Originally published in Weird Tales, October 1937.

Miscellanea

Golnar the Ape (unfinished)

First published as “Golnar” in Crypt of Cthulhu #31, February 1985.

The House (fragment)

Posthumously completed by August Derleth as “The House in the Oaks” and first published in Dark Things (Arkham House, 1971). Uncompleted fragment first published in The Howard Reader #8, Marek, 2003.

Untitled fragment (“Beneath the glare of the sun…”)

First published in The Howard Collector #9, Spring 1967.

Posthumously completed by Robert M. Price as “Black Eons” and first published in Fantasy Book volume 4 #2, June 1985. This is the version that appears in Nameless Cults (Chaosium, 2001).