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REH: Two-Gun Raconteur
The Definitive Howard Journal

Contents of Forthcoming Del Rey "Desert Adventures" Volume
Announced
Recently editor Rusty Burke announced the line-up for the "Desert Adventures" book that
collects all of Howard's professional series desert adventures:

Francis X. Gordon ("El Borak"):

"Swords of the Hills" (REH's title for the story later published as "The Lost Valley of Iskander")
"The Daughter of Erlik Khan"
"Blood of the Gods"
"Sons of the Hawk" (REH's title for the story later published as "The Country of the Knife")
"Son of the White Wolf"
"Hawk of the Hills"
"Three-Bladed Doom" - both versions: "long" and "short" (The short version has never before
appeared as REH wrote it. It originally appeared in REH: Lone Star Fictioneer, but was rewritten (for
no apparent reason, and without notice) by Byron Roark (see my article REH: Two Gun Raconteur
#10, or a shorter, online version here. I published the REH portions that had been rewritten by
Roark, but not the whole story, so this will be the first appearance of the story in its entirety as
written by REH (the "long" version was written first, and about a year later REH rewrote it as the
"short" version).

Kirby O'Donnell:

"Gold from Tartary" (published as "The Treasures of Tartary")
"Swords of Shahrazar"
"The Trail of the Blood Stained God"

Steve Clarney:

"The Fire of Asshurbanipal" (straight adventure version)

Michael William Kaluta's original illustrations from the FAX editions of The Lost Valley of Iskander
and Swords of Shahrazar were originally announced to be included in this volume, possibly along
with new illustrations by Kaluta. However, Kaluta has since announced that no deal has been
reached with Del Rey, so the artist for this title is presently unknown.

Howard also wrote numerous El Borak stories and fragments when he was very young. These will
be collected in a companion volume to be published by The Robert E. Howard Foundation.

-- Posted by Damon C. Sasser on July 16, 2008
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Volumes 4 and 5 of Cosmos Book's Howard Paperback Series Coming
Soon!
These two action-packed paperbacks are culled from Wildside's ten volume hardback collection of
The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard. These paperbacks will appear in September and November.
In the meantime, the most recent volume in the series, Beyond the Black River, is available.

-- Posted by Damon C. Sasser on July 9, 2008

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