Weird Works of REH, Volume 9: Black Hounds of Death
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
posted by Miguel Martins
The ninth Wildside Press volume of the chronological collection of Robert E. Howard’s stories that appeared in pulp magazines, The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Black Hounds of Death, is now available. Only one book left and the series, which started in 2004, will be complete.
It’s a limited edition hardcover (only 900 copies printed) with restored texts by renowned scholar Paul Herman. The most excellent REH biographer Mark Finn provides the foreword. Cover art by Stephen Fabian.
Its contents:
Introduction, by Mark Finn
Black Canaan
Always Comes Evening
Red Nails
Solomon Kane’s Homecoming (original)
Black Hound of Death
The Fire of Asshurbanipal
Dig Me No Grave
The Soul-Eater
The Dream and the Shadow
Which Will Scarcely Be Understood
Futility (“Golden Goats”)
Fragment (“And So His Boyhood”)
Haunting Columns
The Poets
The Singer in the Mist


