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  The Best of Robert E. Howard

  Volume 1: Crimson Shadows

  The Best of Robert E. Howard

  Volume 2: Grim Lands

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  The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume One is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Title Page

  Dedication

  The Shadow Kingdom...

  Foreword

  Introduction

  The Shadow Kingdom

  The Ghost Kings

  The Curse of the Golden Skull

  Red Shadows

  The One Black Stain

  The Dark Man

  The Marching Song of Connacht

  Kings of the Night

  Recompense

  The Black Stone

  The Song of a Mad Minstrel

  The Fightin’est Pair

  The Grey God Passes

  The Song of the Last Briton

  Worms of the Earth

  An Echo from the Iron Harp

  Lord of the Dead

  Untitled

  “For the Love of Barbara Allen”

  The Tide

  The Valley of the Worm

  The Dust Dance: Selections, Version II

  The People of the Black Circle

  Beyond the Black River

  A Word from the Outer Dark

  Hawk of the Hills

  Sharp’s Gun Serenade

  Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die

  Appendices

  Robert E. Howard: Twentieth-Century Mythmaker

  A Short Biography of Robert E. Howard

  Notes on the Original Howard Texts

  Our work on this book would…

  Also by Robert E. Howard

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