Book cover for Breckinridge Elkins Rough Trails 3: First Cuts: the Drafts and Fragments by Robert E Howard

Breckinridge Elkins Rough Trails 3

First Cuts: the Drafts and Fragments

2026 Released
360 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Reh Foundation PressISBN 9781955446785

For the first time, a collection featuring all of Howard's extant drafts and fragments about Breckinridge Elkins. The third volume in a four-part series from the REH Foundation Press collects all the drafts for the last six of Howard's Breckinridge Elkins short stories. All from Howard's original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Howard's raw text, including typos and weird spellings, is preserved. Footnotes describe where Howard inserted text either by typing in between lines or by hand.

For the third volume, Howard scholar and professor Dierk Günther wrote the essay.

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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