Iron Men
Howard’s love of boxing shows
through in his serious boxing fiction. I feel there is enough of this for a
collection
Ace Jessel & Other Ghostly Boxing . . .
The
Spirit of Tom Molyneaux (Boxing Stories, Bison Books & Waterfront Fists and Others, Wildside Press) Howard’s original third-person final draft
has never been published.
Double
Cross (Robert E.
Howard: Power of the Writing Mind)
The
Mark of a Bloody Hand
(Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#9, forthcoming)
The
Voice of Doom
(Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#9, forthcoming)
Other Boxing
Stories . . .
The
Champ [poem]
(Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#2, September 1990)
Iron
Men (The
Iron Man) (Boxing
Stories, Bison Books & Waterfront Fists
& Others, Wildside
Press)
They
Always Come Back
(Boxing
Stories, Bison Books)
Fists
of the Desert
(Iron-Jaw) (Boxing
Stories, Bison Books)
The
Sign of the Snake
(Steve McClarney version) (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #5, forthcoming)
Crowd-Horror (Boxing Stories, Bison Books) Howard’s
original, longer, final draft has never been published.
In
the Ring
[poem] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#4, October 1996)
Thoroughbreds (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)
The
Splendid Brute
(Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#9, forthcoming)
The
Ghost Behind the Gloves
(Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#9, forthcoming)
Untitled (Spike Morissey
was as …) (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)
The
Fighting Fury
(Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine
#10, forthcoming)
The
Right Hook (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #10, forthcoming)
When
You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham [poem] (Robert E.
Howard’s Fight Magazine #2, September 1990)
Night
Encounter
[fragment] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight
Magazine #10, forthcoming)
The
Atavist
[fragment] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight
Magazine #10, forthcoming) A primal World War One veteran is only at home in the ring.
Miscellanea . .
.
The
Spirit of Brian Boru [early work] (The “New” Howard Reader #6, Autumn 1999)
Slugger’s
Vow [poem] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #4,
October 1996)
The
Punch
[essay] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight
Magazine #9, forthcoming)
To
a Man Whose Name I Never Knew [essay] (Robert E.
Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)
Men
of Iron
[essay - unfinished] (Robert E. Howard’s
Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)
