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Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 853.

It includes a short novel and twenty-one stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES, some featuring Conan, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn and King Kull, as well as others that do not belong to his various series, his article on Conan's world, "The Hyborian Age," his poem, "Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die," and Howard memoirs by H. This posthumous 475-page memorial collection is Howard's first book published in the United States. Large octavo, jacket art by Hannes Bok, cloth. The jacket is very good with some light edge-chipping and some soiling to the rear panel.įirst edition. The text is very good with some light tanning. A very good, bright copy with some bumping to the cover corners. All three sides of the textblock have Kline's name ink-stamped on them. The rear endpaper also has his business stamp. The flyleaf of this copy has Kline's ink stamp at the top and his business card with "Reprint Rights" typed on it taped beneath.

He served as Howard's literary agent from 1933 to his death in 1936 and for the estate thereafter.

This copy came from the collection of adventure novelist and long-time assistant editor at "Weird Tales" Otis Adelbert Kline. The title story concerns an Atlantean necromancer who plots to take over the world with the aid of third-world peoples and long-dead mummies. A collection of fantasy short stories first published in "Weird Tales" during the 1920s and 30s.