A list of prose works by
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp magazine, pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor ...
. 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
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero created by American author Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) and who debuted in 1932 and went on to appear in a series of fantasy stories published in ''We ...
Howard's most famous creation, the Cimmerian barbarian, thief, pirate and King of Aquilonia during the pre-Ice Age
Hyborian Age
The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the Setting (narrative), setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian.
The word "Hyborian" is ...
.
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.
Kull
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An Atlantean barbarian and King of Valusia in the ancient
Thurian Age
Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by writer Robert E. Howard. The character was more introspective than Howard's subsequent creation, Conan the Barbarian, whose first appearance was in a re-write of a reject ...
(predating Conan's
Hyborian Age
The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the Setting (narrative), setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian.
The word "Hyborian" is ...
). He appears in the
Bran Mak Morn
Bran Mak Morn is a hero of five pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in ''Weird Tales'', Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts.Rusty Burke ...
story "Kings of the Night."
Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late-16th-to-early-17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in al ...
A Tudor-period Puritan adventurer, wandering across Europe and Africa.
Bran Mak Morn
Bran Mak Morn is a hero of five pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in ''Weird Tales'', Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts.Rusty Burke ...
The King of the
Picts
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during the Roman invasion of Britain, eventually becoming the subject of a
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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".
Turlogh Dubh O'Brien
An 11th-century
Irish outcast.
James Allison James Allison or Jim Allison may refer to:
* James Allison (pirate) (fl. 1689–1691), pirate active near Cape Verde and the Bay of Campeche
* James Allison Jr. (1772–1854), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
* James Wh ...
A 1930s Texan who recalls his past lives as ancient heroes. Not to be confused with
Kid Allison.
Other fantasy
Boxing stories
Sailor Steve Costigan
A 1930s sailor and boxer, travelling between ports aboard the
tramp steamer
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''Sea Girl''.
Sailor Dennis Dorgan
A renamed version of Sailor Steve Costigan sailing in the ''Python'', published under the pseudonym Patrick Ervin.
Kid Allison
Not to be confused with
James Allison James Allison or Jim Allison may refer to:
* James Allison (pirate) (fl. 1689–1691), pirate active near Cape Verde and the Bay of Campeche
* James Allison Jr. (1772–1854), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
* James Wh ...
.
Ace Jessel
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A black, happy-go-lucky boxer.
Other Boxing stories
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''.
Pike Bearfield
Grizzly Elkins
Buckner Jeopardy Grimes
The Sonora Kid
The Sonora Kid, also known as Steve Allison, is a fictional cowboy created by Robert E. Howard. The stories were not printed until more than fifty years after the author's death. The Sonora Kid occasionally crossed over with El Borak, another o ...
AKA Steve Allison. He also appears in some of the
El Borak
El Borak, otherwise known as Francis Xavier Gordon, is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. Gordon was a Texan gunfighter from El Paso who had travelled the world and settled in Afghanistan. He is known in Asia for his exploits in ...
stories.
Other Westerns
Historical stories
See also
Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late-16th-to-early-17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in al ...
,
Bran Mak Morn
Bran Mak Morn is a hero of five pulp fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard. In the stories, most of which were first published in ''Weird Tales'', Bran is the last king of Howard's romanticized version of the tribal race of Picts.Rusty Burke ...
and
Turlough Dubh O'Brien for historical stories with fantasy elements.
El Borak
El Borak, otherwise known as Francis Xavier Gordon, is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. Gordon was a Texan gunfighter from El Paso who had travelled the world and settled in Afghanistan. He is known in Asia for his exploits in ...
A Texan gunman in early 20th Century Afghanistan. Several of the El Borak stories also feature
The Sonora Kid
The Sonora Kid, also known as Steve Allison, is a fictional cowboy created by Robert E. Howard. The stories were not printed until more than fifty years after the author's death. The Sonora Kid occasionally crossed over with El Borak, another o ...
.
Dark Agnes de Chastillon
A red-haired swordswoman in 16th Century France.
Cormac Fitzgeoffrey
A Norman/Gael knight fighting in the Crusades.
Kirby O'Donnell
An American posing as a Kurdish mercenary in Central Asia.
Cormac Mac Art
Cormac mac Airt, also known as Cormac ua Cuinn (grandson of Conn) or Cormac Ulfada (long beard), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He is probably the most famous of the ancient High Kings ...
An Irish pirate during the Dark Ages.
Lal Singh
Raja Lal Singh (died 1866) was a Wazir of the Sikh Empire and commander of Sikh Khalsa Army forces during the First Anglo-Sikh War. Along with Tej Singh, Lal Singh is believed to be in the secret employ of the East India Company during the c ...
Black Vulmea
An Irish pirate sailing the Caribbean.
Helen Tavrel
Howard's female pirate of the Caribbean.
Other historical stories
Horror stories
John Kirowan
These stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos
The Faring Town Saga
De Montour
A Norman werewolf.
Weird West
Weird West
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stories are hybrids, a combination of a
Western
Western may refer to:
Places
*Western, Nebraska, a village in the US
*Western, New York, a town in the US
*Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western world, countries that id ...
with another
genre
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, usually
horror
Horror may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Genres
*Horror fiction, a genre of fiction
**Psychological horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
**Christmas horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
**Analog horror, a subgenre of horror fiction
* ...
, occult, or fantasy.
Other Weird Menace
Other
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stories
Other horror stories
Detective stories
Steve Harrison
A police detective, often coming across weird cases on his River Street patrol in Chinatown.
Butch Gorman & Brent Kirby
Private detectives.
Steve Bender, Weary McGraw and the Whale
Comedy stories
Spicy stories
The "Spicy" pulp magazines
printed stories that were considered scandalous at the time (elements of nudity and implied sex).
Wild Bill Clanton
Other Spicy stories
"True Adventure" stories
Other stories
Essays and articles
Poetry
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 also based on the following articles:
The Works of Robert E. HowardThe Robert E. Howard United Press Association ''The Copyright and Ownership Status of the Works and Words of Robert E. Howard'' by Paul Herman
With some additional material from these sources:
Robert E. Howard: A Library of Classics*
Wikisource
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Project Gutenberg of Australia* ''Afterword'' by Stephen Jones; ''The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle''; 2000;
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