Skull-Face and Others

Skull-Face and Others

Infobox Book
name = Skull-Face and Others
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Hannes Bok for "Skull-Face and Others"
author = Robert E. Howard
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cover_artist = Hannes Bok
country = United States
language = English
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genre = fantasy, horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1946
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = x, 475 pp
isbn = NA
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"Skull-Face and Others" is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Robert E. Howard. It was the author's third book and was published by Arkham House in 1946 in an edition of 3,004 copies.

Most of the stories had originally appeared in the magazine "Weird Tales".

Contents

"Skull-Face and Others" contains the following tales:

# "Foreword" by August Derleth
# "Which Shall Scarcely Be Understood"
# "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memorium" by H. P. Lovecraft
# "A Memory of R.E. Howard" by E. Hoffmann Price
# "Wolfshead"
# "The Black Stone"
# "The Horror from the Mound"
# "The Cairn on the Headland"
# "Black Canaan"
# "The Fire of Asshurbanipal"
# "A Man-Eating Jeopard"
# "Skull Face"
# "The Hyborian Age"
# "Worms of the Earth"
# "The Valley of the Worm"
# "Skulls in the Stars"
# "Rattle of Bones"
# "The Hills of the Dead"
# "Wings in the Night"
# "The Shadow Kingdom"
# "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune"
# "Kings of the Night"
# "The Phoenix on the Sword"
# "The Scarlet Citadel"
# "The Tower of the Elephant"
# "Rogues in the House"
# "Shadows in Zamboula"
# "Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die"

Reprints

*Jersey, UK: Neville Spearman, 1974.
*St. Albans, UK: Panther, 1976 (3 vols.; as "Skull-Face Omnibus").

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=18| date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=29 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=34-35 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=57 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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