List of works by Robert E. Howard

A list of works by Robert E. Howard.

The works are sorted by genre, by series and then alphabetically. Untitled works and fragments (incomplete and unfinished works) are listed separately by their opening line.

Additional information is included where available, covering publication date and place, the amount Howard earned for the sale of the piece, any alternative titles and whether the work is in the public domain. Links to the freely available source texts, on wikisource or Project Gutenberg of Australia, are included in a separate column. These are marked with the appropriate icons.

Fantasy stories

Conan the Barbarian

Howard's most famous creation, the Cimmerian barbarian, thief, pirate and eventual King of Aquilonia during the pre-Ice Age Hyborian Age.many of the Conan stories not published during Howard's lifetime were edited by other authors before publication. The Fragment stories have all been completed by others since. Where either has occurred before the publication of the original material, this date is noted after the original material's publication date.

Bran Mak Morn

The King of the Picts during the Roman invasion of Britain, eventually becoming the subject of a Cthulhu Mythos cult as the "Dark Man". He is referenced in the Kirowan story "The Children of the Night" and features in the Turlough O'Brien story "The Dark Man".

Other Fantasy

Kid Allison

Western stories

Breckinridge Elkins

Humorous stories of a kind, strong but not very smart cowboy.All stories with the note "("A Gent from Bear Creek")" were later edited together to become part of the 1937 novel "A Gent from Bear Creek".

Buckner Jeopardy Grimes

Historical stories

See also Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn and Turlough Dubh O'Brien for historical stories with fantasy elements.

=El Borak=

A Texan gunman in early 20th Century Afghanistan. Several of the El Borak stories also feature The Sonora Kid.

Kirby O'Donnell

An American posing as a Kurdish mercenary in Central Asia.

Black Vulmea

An Irish pirate sailing the Caribbean.

The Faring Town Saga

Other Weird Menace

Detective stories

=Steve Harrison=

A police detective, often coming across weird cases on his River Street patrol.

Comedy stories

"True Adventure" stories

Poetry

* "Adventure" (Version that begins “I Am The Spur . . .” is Public Domain)
* "Adventurer" (Public Domain)
* "The Alamo" (Public Domain)
* "Age" (First published in "The Junto", September 1928)
* "Always Comes Evening" (First published in "The Phantograph", August 1936. Public Domain) - "
* "Ambition" (Public Domain)
* "An American Epic" (Public Domain)
* "An American" (Public Domain)
* "An Open Window" (First published in "Weird Tales", September 1932. Sold for $1)
* "Arcadian Days" (Public Domain)
* "Arkham" (First published in "Weird Tales", August 1932. Sold for $1)
* "At The Bazaar" (Public Domain)
* "Autumn" (First published in "Weird Tales", April 1933. Sold for $3)
* "Aw Come On And Fight!" (Public Domain)
* "Babel" (First published in "The Fantasy Fan", January 1935. Public Domain)
* "The Ballad Of Abe Slickemmore" (Public Domain)
* "A Ballad Of Insanity" (Public Domain)
* "The Ballad Of Monk Kickawhore" (Public Domain)
* "The Bar By The Side Of The Road"
* "Black Chant Imperial" (First published in "Weird Tales", September 1930. Sold for $6)
* "Bombing Of Gon Fanfew, The" (Public Domain)
* "But The Hills Were Ancient Then" (First published In "Amra", Vol. 2, #8, November-December 1959. Originally untitled. Public Domain)
* "The Chant Demoniac" (First published in "Weird Tales", Winter 1989/1990)
* "The Chinese Gong" (Public Domain)
* "The Choir Girl" (Public Domain)
* "Cimmeria" (Written in February 1932. First published in "The Howard Collector #7", Winter 1965)
* "Crete" (First published in "Weird Tales", February 1929. Sold for $4. Public Domain)
* "The Day That I Die"
* "Dead Man's Hate" (First published in "Weird Tales", January 1930. Public Domain. Sold for $7) - "
* "The Deed Beyond The Deed" (Public Domain)
* "Deeps" (Public Domain)
* "Desert Dawn" (First published in "Weird Tales", March 1939)
* "Destination" (First published in "Magazine of Horror #12", Winter 1965/66. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "The Doom Chant of Than-Kul" (First published in "Weird Tales", Summer 1983)
* "The Dream and the Shadow" (First published in "Weird Tales", September 1937)
* "Dreamer" (Public Domain)
* "Dreaming" (Public Domain)
* "Dreaming On Downs" (First published in "The Poet's Scroll", April 1929. Public Domain)
* "Dreams Of Nineveh" (First published in "Golden Atom, 20th Anniversary Issue", 1959-1960. Public Domain)
* "Drummings On An Empty Skull" (Public Domain)
* "The Dust Dance"
* "The Dweller of Dark Valley" (First published in "Magazine of Horror #11", November 1965. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "Easter Island" (First published in "Weird Tales", December 1928. Public Domain. Sold for $3.50) - "
* "Empire's Destiny" (First published in "The Poet's Scroll", June 1929. Public Domain. Alternative title: "Oh Babylon, Lost Babylon")
* "Envoy" (Public Domain)
* "Eternity" (Public Domain)
* "Fables For Little Folk" (First published in "Daniel Baker Collegian", March 1926. Public Domain) - "
* "Flaming Marble" (First published in "The Poet's Scroll", January 1929. Public Domain)
* "Forbidden Magic" (First published in "Weird Tales", July 1929. Public Domain. Sold for $3.50) - "
* "Futility (First published in "Daniel Baker Collegian", May 1926. Public Domain)
* "Fragment" (First published in "Weird Tales", December 1937)
* "The Gates of Ninevah" (First published in "Weird Tales", July 1928. Public Domain. Sold for $4) - "
* "The Ghost Kings" (First published in "Weird Tales", December 1938)
* "Girl" (Public Domain)
* "The Gods Remember" (Begins “Lost wonders of the ages...”. Public Domain)
* "A Great Man Speaks" (Public Domain)
* "The Grey Lover" (Public Domain)
* "The Guise of Youth"
* "A Hairy Chested Idealist Sings" (First published in "The Junto", October 1928)
* "The Harp of Alfred" (First Appeared In "Weird Tales", September 1928. Public Domain) - "
* "Haunting Columns" (First published in "Weird Tales", February 1938)
* "High Blue Halls" (Public Domain)
* "The Hills of Kandahar" (First published in "Weird Tales", June-July 1939)
* "How to Select a Successful Evangelist" (Public Domain)
* "Illusion" (First published in "Daniel Baker Collegian", March 1926. Public Domain)
* "Ivory in the Night" (Public Domain)
* "Jack Dempsey" (Public Domain)
* "John Kelley" (Public Domain)
* "Kid Lavigne is Dead" (First published in "The Ring", June 1928. Public Domain)
* "The King and the Oak" (First published in "Weird Tales", February 1939. Kull)
* "The Kissing of Sal Snooboo" (First published in "The Tattler", the Brownwood High School paper, January 1925. Public Domain)
* "The Last Day" (First published in "Weird Tales", March 1932. Sold for $3.50. Alternative title: "The Last Hour")
* "A Lady's Chamber" (First published in "American Poet", April 1929. Public Domain)
* "Laughter" (Public Domain)
* "Lesbia" (Public Domain)
* "Libertine" (Public Domain)
* "Life" (The version that begins "About me rise the primal mists” is Public Domain)
* "Lines to G. B. Shaw" (Public Domain)
* "Lines Written In The Realization That I Must Die" (First published in "Weird Tales", August 1938)
* "Lust" (Public Domain)
* "The Madness of Cormac" (Public Domain)
* "The Maiden of Kercheezer" (First published in "The Progress", February 1924. Public Domain)
* "Memeories" (First published in "Weird Tales", Summer 1990)
* "A Mick in Israel" (Public Domain)
* "Miser's Gold" - "
* "Monarchs" (Public Domain)
* "Moonlight on a Skull" (First published in "Weird Tales", May 1933. Sold for $4. Alternative title: "Futility")
* "Moon Mockery" (First published in "Weird Tales", April 1929. Public Domain. Sold for $3.50)
* "The Moor Ghost" (First published in "Weird Tales", September 1929. Public Domain. Sold for $4) - "
* "The Mottoes of the Boy Scouts" (Public Domain)
* "The Mountains of California" (Public Domain)
* "Musings"
* "My Children" (Public Domain)
* "Mystic" (Public Domain)
* "Nancy Hawk - A Legend Of Virginity" (Public Domain)
* "Not Only In Death They Die" (First published in "Magazine of Horror #28", July 1969. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "Nun" (Public Domain)
* "Ocean-Thoughts" (Public Domain)
* "The One Black Stain" (First published in "The Howard Collector #2", Spring 1962. Solomon Kane. Public Domain)
* "One Blood Strain" (Public Domain)
* "One Who Comes at Eventide" (First published in "Modern American Poetry", October 1933. Public Domain)
* "Only In Death They Die" (Public Domain)
* "An Open Window" (First published in "Weird Tales", September 1932)
* "Orientia" (Public Domain)
* "Poet" (Public Domain)
* "The Poets" (First published in "Weird Tales", March 1938)
* "Private Magrath of the A.E.F" (First published in "Yellow Jacket", January 1927. Public Domain)
* "Rebellion" (First published in "The Poet's Scroll", February 1929. Public Domain)
* "Prude" (Public Domain)
* "A Rattlesnake Sings In The Grass" (Public Domain)
* "Rebellion" (First published in "The Poet's Scroll", February 1929. Public Domain)
* "Recompense" (First published in "Weird Tales", November 1938) - "
* "Red Thunder" (First published in "JAPM: The Poetry Weekly", September 1929. Public Domain)
* "Remembrance" (First published in "Weird Tales", April 1928. Sold for $3.50)
* "Renunciation" (Public Domain)
* "Repentance" (Public Domain)
* "The Return of Sir Richard Grenville" (Solomon Kane)
* "Reuben's Brethren"
* "The Ride of Falume" (First published in "Weird Tales", October 1927. Public Domain. Sold for $5)
* "The Riders of Babylon", (First published in "Weird Tales", January 1928. Public Domain. Sold for $5.50) - "
* "The Road To Hell" (Public Domain)
* "The Robes of the Righteous" (Public Domain)
* "A Roman Lady" (Public Domain)
* "Romance" (The version that begins “Shouting I come, flouting I come” is Public Domain)
* "Roundelay Of The Roughneck" (First published in "Daniel Baker Collegian", April 1926. Public Domain)
* "Rules of Etiquette" (First published in "The Progress, February 1924. Public Domain)
* "Sailor" (Public Domain)
* "San Jacinto" (The version that begins “Flowers Bloom On San Jacinto” is Public Domain)
* "The Sands of Time" (Public Domain)
* "The Sea" (First published in "The Baylor United Statement", Spring 1923. Public Domain)
* "Secrets" (Public Domain)
* "Serpent" (Public Domain)
* "Shadow of Dreams" (First published in "The Poet's Scroll", August 1929. Public Domain. Alternative title: "Stay Not From Me")
* "Shadows on the Road" (First published in "Weird Tales", May 1930. Sold for $11.50)
* "Shadows" (The version that begins “I am that which was, was never…" is Public Domain)
* "Sighs in the Yellow Leaves" (Public Domain)
* "Ships" (First published in "Weird Tales", July 1938)
* "Silence Falls On Mecca's Walls"
* "The Singer in the Mist" (First published in "Weird Tales", April 1938)
* "The Skull in the Clouds" (First published in "
* "Skulls and Dust" (First published in "American Poet", May 1929. Public Domain)
* "Slumber" (First published in "Magazine of Horror #30", December 1969. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (First published in "Fanciful Tales", Fall 1936. Solomon Kane. Original version is Public Domain)
* "Song at Midnight" (First published in "The Phantagraph", August 1940. Public Domain. Alternative title: "Man, the Master")
* "A Song for Men That Laugh" (First published in "The Junto", December 1928)
* "A Song of Cheer" (Public Domain)
* "A Song of Defeat" (First published in "Magazine of Horror #34", Fall 1970. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "A Song of College" (Public Domain)
* "A Song of Greenwich" (Public Domain)
* "The Song of the Bats" (First published in "Weird Tales", May 1927. Public Domain. Sold for $4) - "
* "The Song of the Gallows Tree" (First published in "Weird Tales", Spring 1981)
* "The Song of a Mad Minstrel" (First published in "Weird Tales", February-March 1931. Sold for $8)
* "A Song Out of Midian", (First published in "Weird Tales", April 1930. Sold for $6) - "
* "The Song of the Race" (Bran Mak Morn)
* "The Song of the Sage" (Public Domain)
* "A Sonnet Of Good Cheer"
* "The Song of Horsa's Galley"
* "Sonora to Del Rio" (First published in "The Howard Collector #1", Summer 1961. Public Domain)
* "The Soul-Eater" (First published in "Weird Tales", August 1937)
* "Summer Morn" (Public Domain)
* "Surrender" (First published in "The Junto", August 1929. Public Domain. Alternative title: "The Road to Rest")
* "Swings and Swings" (First published in "The Junto", November 1928)
* "Tarantella" (First published in "Daniel Baker Collegian", May 1926. Public Domain)
* "The Tempter" (First published in "Cross Plains Review", June 1937. Public Domain) - "
* "That Women May Sing of Us" (Public Domain)
* "Thor" (Public Domain)
* "Tides" (First published in "Contemporary Verse", September 1929. Public Domain)
* "To the Evangelists" (First published in "The Junto", December 1928. Alternative title: "The Flood")
* "To a Roman Woman" (Public Domain)
* "To a Woman" (First published in "Modern American Poetry", October 1933. Public Domain)
* "To Certain Cultured Women" (Public Domain)
* "To the Contended" (Public Domain)
* "Toper" (Public Domain)
* "A Tribute to the Sportsmanship of the Fans" (Public Domain)
* "Universe" (First published in "Weird Tales", Spring-Fall 1989)
* "The Voices Waken Memory" (First published in "The Fantasy Fan", September 1934. Public Domain. Alternative titles: "A Drum Begins to Throb", "Out of the Deep")
* "A Vision" (First published in "Startling Mystery Stories", Fall 1967. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "The Weakling" - "
* "Which Will Scarcely Be Understood" (First published in "Weird Tales", October 1937)
* "A Word from the Outer Dark"
* "The Years Are As A Knife" (First published in "Magazine of Horror #19", January 1968. Disputed/unknown copyright status)
* "Yodels of Good Sneer to the Pipple, Damn Them" (Public Domain)
* "Zukala's Love Song" (First published in "Weird Tales", Fall 1991)
* "The Zulu Lord" (First published in "Weird Tales", Winter 1991/1992)

Untitled:
* "A clash of steel, a thud of hoofs..." (Public Domain)
* "A cringing woman’s lot is hard..." (Public Domain)
* "A hundred years the great war raged..." (Public Domain)
* "A sappe ther wos and that a crumbe manne..." (Public Domain)
* "Adam’s loins were mountains..." (Public Domain)
* "After the trumps are sounded..." (Public Domain)
* "Against the blood red moon a tower stands..." (Public Domain)
* "All the crowd..." (Public Domain)
* "And Dempsey climbed into the ring and the crowd..." (Public Domain)
* "At the Inn of the Gory Dagger, with nothing to..." (Public Domain)
* "Bill Boozy was a pirate bold..." (Public Domain)
* "By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop where the..." (Public Domain)
* "Dark are your eyes..." (Public Domain)
* "determined. So I set out up..." (Public Domain)
* "Drawers that a girl strips down her thighs..." (Public Domain)
* "Early in the morning I gazed at the eastern skies..." (Public Domain)
* "Flappers flicker and flap and flirt..." (Public Domain)
* "Give ye of my best though the dole be meger..." (Public Domain)
* "He clutched his... ..." (Public Domain)
* "Hills of the North! Lavender hills..." (Public Domain)
* "I am MAN from the primal, I..." (Public Domain)
* "I am the Spirit of War!..." (Public Domain)
* "I do not sing of a paradise..." (Public Domain)
* "I hate the man who tells me that I lied..." (Public Domain)
* "I hold all women are a gang of tramps..." (Public Domain)
* "I lay in Yen’s opium joint..." (Public Domain)
* "I tell you this my friend..." (Public Domain)
* "Keep women, thrones and kingly lands..." (Public Domain)
* "Let me live as I was born to live..." (Public Domain)
* "Life is a cynical, romantic pig..." (Public Domain)
* "Love is singing soft and low..." (Public Domain)
* "Match a toad with a far-winged hawk..." (Public Domain)
* "Mingle my dust with the burning brand..." (Public Domain)
* "Moonlight and shadows barred the land..." (Public Domain)
* "Mother Eve, Mother Eve, I name you a fool..." (Public Domain)
* "My brother he was a auctioneer..." (Public Domain)
* "Noah was my applesauce..." (Public Domain)
* "Now bright, now red, now red, the sabers sped among the..." (Public Domain)
* "Old Faro Bill was a man of might..." (Public Domain)
* "Out in front of Goldestein’s..." (Public Domain)
* "Out of Asia the tribesmen came..." (Public Domain)
* "Rebel souls from the falling dark..." (Public Domain)
* "Romona! Romona!..." (Public Domain)
* "Roses laughed in her pretty hair..." (Public Domain)
* "Sappho, the Grecian hills are gold..." (Public Domain)
* "Scarlet and gold are the stars tonight..." (Public Domain)
* "Swords glimmered up the pass..." (Public Domain)
* "Take some honey from a cat..." (Public Domain)
* "that is the artistry is..." (Public Domain)
* "The east is red and I am dead..." (Public Domain)
* "The helmsman gaily, rode down the rickerboo..." (Public Domain)
* "The iron harp that Adam christened Life..." (Public Domain)
* "The shades of night were falling faster..." (Public Domain)
* "The spiders of weariness come on me..." (Public Domain)
* "The women come and the women go..." (Public Domain)
* "The world goes back to the primitive, yea..." (Public Domain)
* "Then Stein the peddler with rising joy..." (Public Domain)
* "There once was a wicked old elf..." (Public Domain)
* "There were three lads who went their destined ways..." (Public Domain)
* "There’s an isle far away on the breast of the sea..." (Public Domain)
* "They matched me up with a bird..." (Public Domain)
* "Toast to the British! Damn their souls to Hell." (Public Domain)
* "We are the duckers of crosses..." (Public Domain)
* "Whats become of Waring..." (Public Domain)

Other fragments

* "The Atavist" (Public Domain)
* "Age Lasting Love" (First published in "La Tombe Du Dragon", 1990. Public Domain)
* "The Battling Sailor"
* "Blue River Blues"
* "A Boy, a Beehive, and a Chinaman"
* "The Brand of Satan" (Public Domain)
* "Circus Charade" (Public Domain)
* "The Dominant Male" (Public Domain)
* "The Drawing Card" (Public Domain)
* "The Drifter" (Public Domain)
* "A Faithful Servant" (Public Domain)
* "Fate is the Killer" (Public Domain)
* "The Feminine of the Species" (Public Domain)
* "The Ferocious Ape" (Public Domain)
* "The Fishing Trip" (Public Domain)
* "Fistic Psychology"
* "The Folly of Conceit" (Public Domain)
* "Friends" (Public Domain)
* "The Funniest Bout" (Public Domain)
* "The Ghost Behind the Gloves" (Public Domain)
* "The Ghost of Bald Rock Ranch" (Public Domain)
* "In His Own Image" (Public Domain)
* "Incongruity" (Public Domain)
* "The Influence of the Movies" (Public Domain)
* "The Ivory Camel" (Public Domain)
* "The Land of Forgotten Ages" (Public Domain)
* "The Lion Gate" (Public Domain)
* "Lobo Volante" (Public Domain)
* "Man" (Public Domain)
* "A Man and a Brother" (Public Domain)
* "A Man of Peace" (Public Domain)
* "The Man Who Went Back" (Public Domain)
* "Mr. Dowser Buys a Car" (Public Domain)
* "Over the Rockies in a Ford" (Public Domain)
* "Pigskin Scholar" (Public Domain)
* "The Punch" (Public Domain)
* "The Recalcitrant" (Public Domain)
* "The Red Stone" (Public Domain)
* "The Slayer" (Never published. Public Domain)
* "A South Sea Storm" (Never published. Public Domain)
* "The Splendid Brute" (Never published. Public Domain)
* "Tallyho!" (Public Domain)
* "Ten Minutes on a Street Corner" (Public Domain)
* "Through the Ages" (Public Domain)
* "The Treasure of Henry Morgan" (Public Domain)
* "A Twentieth-Century Rip Van Winkle" (Public Domain)
* "A Unique Hat" (Public Domain)
* "The Weeping Willow"
* "What the Deuce?" (Public Domain)
* "The Wheel Turns" (Public Domain)
* "The White Jade Ring" (Public Domain)
* "The Wild Man" (Public Domain)
* "The Wings of the Bat" (Public Domain)
* "Yellow Laughter" (Public Domain)

Other untitled stories

* "As he approached the two, he swept off his feathered hat..."
* "Better a man should remain in kindly ignorance, than..."
* "Between berserk battle-rages, the black despair of melancholy..."
* "Franey was a fool."
* "From the black, bandit-haunted mountains of Kang..."
* "Help! Help! They're murderin' me!"
* "Huh?" I was so dumbfounded I was clean off..."
* "I", said Cuchulain, "was a man, at least."
* "I'm writing this with a piece of pencil on the backs of old..."
* "It was a strange experience, and I don't expect anyone..."
* "A land of wild, fantastic beauty; of mighty trees..."
* "The lazy quiet of the mid-summer day was shattered..."
* "A man", said my friend Larry Aloysius O'Leary..."
* "The matter seemed so obvious that my only answer..."
* "Maybe it doesn't seem like anything interesting and..."
* "Mike Costigan, writer and self-avowed futilist, gazed..."
* "The next day I was sluggish and inefficient in my work..."
* "Old Man Jacobsen crunched his powerful teeth through..."
* "So I set out up the hill-trail as if on a hunt and..."
* "So there I was..."
* "Spike Morissey was as tough a kid as ever came..."
* "The tale has always been doubted and scoffed at..."
* "that is, the artistry is but a symbol for the thought!"
* "Thure Khan gazed out across the shifting vastness..."
* "Trails led through dense jungle..."
* "Two men were standing in the bazaar at Delhi..."
* "You," said Shifty Griddle, pointing his finger at me..."
* "Joe Rogers had been working the stock markets..."

References

This list was based on the following articles:
* [http://www.howardworks.com/howard.htm The Works of Robert E. Howard]
* [http://www.gentzel.com/reh/check.html A Collector's Checklist of Howard's Fiction]
* [http://www.rehupa.com/ The Robert E. Howard United Press Association]
* [http://www.robert-e-howard.org/AnotherThought4revised.html The Robert-E-Howard: Electronic Amateur Press Association] , "The Copyright and Ownership Status of the Works and Words of Robert E. Howard" by Paul Herman
* [http://www.hycyber.com/HF/weird_tales_ha.html Weird Tales Fiction Index]

With some additional material from these sources:
* [http://www.rehoward.com/ Robert E. Howard: A Library of Classics]
* Wikisource
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/index.html Project Gutenberg of Australia]
* "Afterword" by Stephen Jones; "The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle"; 2000; ISBN 1-85798-996-1