Contents

Title Page

Dedication

About this Book

Plates

Foreword

Introduction

Untitled Story (previously published as “Exile of Atlantis”)

The Shadow Kingdom

The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune

Untitled Draft

The Cat and the Skull

The Screaming Skull of Silence

The Striking of the Gong

The Altar and the Scorpion

The Curse of the Golden Skull

The Black City (Unfinished Fragment)

Untitled Fragment

By This Axe I Rule!

Swords of the Purple Kingdom

The King and the Oak

Kings of the Night

Miscellanea

The “Am-ra of the Ta-an” Fragments

Summer Morn

Am-ra the Ta-an

The Tale of Am-ra

Untitled and Unfinished Fragment

Untitled and Incomplete Fragment

The Shadow Kingdom (Draft)

Delcardes’ Cat

The King and the Oak (Draft)

Appendices

Atlantean Genesis

Notes on the Original Howard Texts

The Fully Illustrated Robert E. Howard Library from Del Rey Books

Praise for Robert E. Howard

Copyright