Originally published in Weird Tales, June 1936.
Pictures in the Fire
Stories
Black Country
First published in Weirdbook Six, 1973.
The Cobra in the Dream
First published in Weirdbook One (W. Paul Ganley, 1968).
“For the Love of Barbara Allen”
Originally published in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1966.
The Ghost in the Doorway
First published in The Howard Collector #11 (Glenn Lord, Spring 1969).
The Haunted Hut
First published in Weirdbook Two, 1969.
The Hyena
Originally published in Weird Tales, March 1928.
The Shadow of Doom
First published in The Howard Collector #8, Summer 1966.
Spear and Fang
Originally published in Weird Tales, July 1925.
A Thunder of Trumpets
Written by Robert E. Howard and Frank Thurston Torbett. First published in Weird Tales, September 1938.
Under the Baobab Tree
First Published in Cross Plains #5, Fall 1974.
The Voice of El-Lil
Originally published in Oriental Stories, October-November 1930.
Miscellanea
The Abbey (unfinished)
First published in Fantasy Crossroads issue 4/5, August 1975.
Posthumously completed by C. J. Henderson in Nameless Cults, Chaosium 2001.
Age Lasting Love (unfinished)
First published (in French) in La Tomb Du Dragon (NeO, 1990). First English language publication in The New Howard Reader #7, Spring 2000.
Bastards All! (play)
First published in Lewd Tales (Cryptic Publications, 1987).
The Brand of Satan (unfinished)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
Dagon Manor (unfinished)
First published in Shudder Stories #4, March 1986 (completed by C. J. Henderson).
Dear Mrs. Shane (unfinished)
First published in Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter Volume 7 #2, Summer 2013.
The Devil’s Woodchopper (unfinished)
First published in The Grim Land and Others (Stygian Isle Press, 1976) completed by Tevis Clyde Smith.
The Door to the World (fragment)
First published as “The Door to the Garden” in Fantasy Crosswinds #2, January 1977.
Posthumously completed by Joseph S. Pulver in Nameless Cults, Chaosium, 2001.
Fate is the Killer (unfinished)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
Incongruity (unfinished)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
The Isle of the Eons (unfinished)
First published in The Gods of Bal-Sagoth (Ace, April 1979).
The Jade God (unfinished)
First published in Unaussprechlichen Kulten #2 (Editions Samarcande, July 1992).
Nekht Semerkeht (unfinished)
Posthumously completed by Andrew J. Offutt and first published in Swords Against Darkness (Zebra, 1977). This version also appears in The Gods of Bal-Sagoth (Ace, 1979).
The version that appears in The Black Stranger and Other American Tales (University of Nebraska Press, 2005) is taken from Howard’s original typescript.
Supposedly the last story Howard worked on before his death.
Redflame
First published in REHUPA #88 (1987 estimated, no other publication information available).
Serpent Vines
First published in WT 50: A Tribute to Weird Tales (Robert Weinberg, 1974).
The Slayer (unfinished)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
Songs of Bastards (play)
First published in Lewd Tales (Cryptic Publications, 1987).
Through the Ages (unfinished)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
Two Against Tyre (unfinished draft)
First published in The Howard Collector #12, Spring 1970.
Untitled story (“As he approached…”)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
The Wings of the Bat (unfinished)
First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).