Western Tales

REH Foundation Press, December 2013. Cover by Tom Gianni. First printing limited to 200 copies. Currently out of print.

Stories

Brotherly Advice

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

The Dead Remember

Originally published in Argosy, August 15, 1936.

Desert Rendezvous

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

The Devil’s Joker

First published in Cross Plains #6, February/March 1976.

Drums of the Sunset

Originally published in Cross Plains Review, November 1928 – January 1929.

Alternate title: “Riders of the Sunset.”

The Extermination of Yellow Donory

First published in Zane Grey Western Magazine, June 1970.

A Faithful Servant

First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).

The Ghost of Camp Colorado

Originally published in Texaco Star, April 1931.

“Golden Hope” Christmas

Originally published in The Tattler, December 22, 1922.

Gunman’s Debt

First published in The Last Ride (Berkeley, 1978).

The Horror From the Mound

Originally published in Weird Tales, May 1932.

The Judgement of the Desert

First published as “Showdown at Hell’s Canyon” in The Vultures, Fictioneer Books, 1973.

Knife, Bullet and Noose

First published in The Howard Collector #6, Spring 1965.

The Last Ride

Originally published as “Boot-Hill Payoff” in Western Aces, October 1935.

Law-Shooters of Cowtown

Originally published in Cross Plains #4, July/August 1974.

Alternate title: “Law Guns of Cowtown.”

The Man on the Ground

Originally published in Weird Tales, July 1933.

Old Garfield’s Heart

Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1933.

Red Curls and Bobbed Hair

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

The Sonora Kid – Cowhand

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

The Sonora Kid’s Winning Hand

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

The Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger

First published as “Apparition of Josiah Wilbarger” in The West, September 1967.

The Thunder-Rider

First published in Marchers of Valhalla, Donald M. Grant, 1972.

The Valley of the Lost

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

Vultures of Wahpeton

Originally published as “Vultures of Whapeton” in Smashing Novels Magazine, December 1936, with two different endings.

Vulture’s Sanctuary

Originally published in Argosy, November 28, 1936.

The West Tower

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Wild Water

First published in Cross Plains #7, George Hamilton, September 1975.

Poems

Ace High

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

The Ballad of Buckshot Roberts

First published in Rhymes of Death, 1975.

Cowboy

First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).

The Feud

First published in Fantasy Crossroads #13, June 1978.

John Ringold

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

Old Faro Bill

First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard (REH Foundation Press, June 2007).

Over the Old Rio Grandey

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

The Sand-Hills’ Crest

First published in A Robert E. Howard Memorial, June 1986.

Miscellanea

The Devil’s Joker (alternate version)

First published in Western Tales (REH Foundation Press, December 2013).

Drag (fragment)

First published in Western Tales (REH Foundation Press, December 2013).

The Killer’s Debt (fragment)

First published in Western Tales (REH Foundation Press, December 2013).

Six-Gun Interview (unfinished)

First published in The Robert E. Howard Foundation Holiday Special, December 2009.

Three synopses (Gunman’s Debt)

First published in Western Tales (REH Foundation Press, December 2013).

Untitled story (“A blazing sun…”)

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Untitled story (“Madge Meraldson set her traveling-bag…”)

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Untitled story (“I met him first in the Paradise saloon…”)

First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, 2007).

Untitled story (“Steve Allison settled himself down…”)

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Untitled story (“The Hades Saloon…”)

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Untitled story (“The hot Arizona sun…”)

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Untitled story (“The way it came about…”)

First published in The Sonora Kid (Cryptic Publications, June 1988).

Untitled synopsis (The Vultures of Wahpeton)

First published in Western Tales (REH Foundation Press, December 2013).