Dennis McHaney

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 This is the first volume consisting entirely of previously unpublished Robert E. Howard material to appear in decades The yarns included are: Black Vulmea's Vengeance Draft 2, The Cairn on the Headland Draft 2, The Horror from the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."