Originally published in Weird Tales, May and June 1935.
The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows
Stories
The Black Stone
Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1931.
The Curse of the Golden Skull
First published in The Howard Collector, Spring 1967.
The Dark Man
Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1931.
The Fightin’est Pair
Originally published as “Breed of Battle” in Action Stories, November 1931.
“For the Love of Barbara Allen”
Originally published in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1966.
The Grey God Passes
First published in Dark Mind, Dark Heart, Arkham House, 1962.
Published as “Twilight of the Grey Gods” in Eons of the Night (Baen, March 1996).
This story is a rewritten version of “Spears of Clontarf” with weird elements added, probably for submission to Weird Tales.
Hawk of the Hills
Originally published in Top-Notch Magazine, Jun 1935.
Kings of the Night
Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1930.
Lord of the Dead
First published in Skull-Face (Berkeley, February 1978).
The People of the Black Circle
Originally published in Weird Tales, September, October and November 1934.
Red Shadows
First published Solomon Kane story.
Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1928.
The Shadow Kingdom
Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1929. First published Kull of Atlantis story.
Sharp’s Gun Serenade
Originally published in Action Stories, January 1937.
Published as “Educate or Bust” in The Summit County Journal, serialized over ten weeks in September, October and November, 1970.
The Valley of the Worm
Originally published in Weird Tales, February 1934.
Worms of the Earth
Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1932.
Poems
A Word From the Outer Dark
First published in Kadath #1, Lin Carter, 1974.
An Echo From the Iron Harp
First published as “The Gold and the Grey” in The Gold and the Grey, Roy Squires, 1974.
The Dust Dance (version 1)
First published in The Howard Collector #7, Winter 1965.
The Ghost Kings
Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1938.
Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die
Originally published in Weird Tales, August 1938.
The Marching Song of Connacht
First published in The Howard Collector #16, Spring 1972.
The One Black Stain
First published in The Howard Collector, Spring 1962.
Recompense
Originally published in Weird Tales, November 1938.
The Song of a Mad Minstrel
Originally published in Weird Tales, February-March 1931.
The Song of the Last Briton
First published in The Ghost Ocean and Other Poems of the Supernatural (Gibbelins Gazette Publications, 1982).
The Tide
First published in Omniumgathum, Stygian Isle Press, October 1976.
Untitled (“You have built a world of paper and wood…”)
Partial version with some lines missing and/or rearranged first published as “A Warning” in The Howard Collector #5, Summer 1964.