First Passage - Early Drafts of Beloved Yarns by Robert E. Howard
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This volume contains fifteen early drafts of some of Robert E. Howard's most well-known characters and stories. All the drafts included in this volume are published here for the first time. This is the first volume consisting entirely of previously unpublished Robert E. Howard material to appear in decades!
The yarns included are:
Black Vulmea's Vengeance Draft 2, The Cairn on the Headland Draft 2, The Horror from the Mound Draft 1,
Pigeons from Hell Draft 3, The Hoofed Thing Draft 2, Old Garfield's Heart Draft, The Dead Remember Draft 1,
Kings of the Night Draft 1, The Footfalls Within Draft 1, Wings in the Night Draft 1, The Shadow of the Vulture Draft 3,
The Voice of El-Lil Draft 1, Hawks of Outremer Draft 1, Son of the White Wolf Draft 5, Hawk of the Hills Draft 3.
Many of the surviving early drafts of Robert E. Howard's stories are considerably different from the familiar, previously published versions. This "best of" collection of Howard's early drafts highlights Howard's writing process."
Robert E Howard
Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) was born and raised in rural Texas, the son of a pioneer physician. He began writing professionally at the age of fifteen and turned out dozens of tales of heroic and supernatural fantasy, featuring many memorable creations - including the character he is best remembered for: Conan of Cimmeria. These stories, mostly published in Weird Tales, won him a huge audience across the world and influenced a whole generation of writers, from Robert Jordan to Raymond E. Feist. Sadly, Howard killed himself in June 1936 when he learned that his beloved mother had fallen into a coma.
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