Trails in Darkness
Again, the title of this
section is borrowed from the Baen collection of this name. You might consider
the stories and essays listed on this page as a sort of corrected, expanded Trails in Darkness. I hope to someday see a collection like this appear. It’s just heart-breaking that this material is
yet to be brought together in a comprehensive collection.
The
Shadow of the Beast
(Cthulhu: The
Mythos – and Kindred Horrors, Baen)
The
Shadow of Doom
(The “New” Howard Reader #1, June
1998)
The
Haunted Hut (REH: Two-Gun
Raconteur #7)
The
Horror from the Mound
(The Black
Stranger, Bison Books & People of the Dark, Wildside Press)
The
Man on the Ground
(End of the
Trail, Bison Books & Weird Works, Vol. 5, Wildside Press, forthcoming)
Old
“For
the Love of Barbara Allen”
(Trails of
Darkness, Baen)
The
Valley of the Lost
(The Black
Stranger, Bison Books)
Moon
of Zembabwei
(The Grisly Horror) (Weird Works, Vol. 7,
Wildside Press, forthcoming)
Black
Hound of Death
(Weird Works,
Vol. 9, Wildside Press, forthcoming)
Black
Pigeons
from Hell (The Black
Stranger, Bison Books & Weird Works, Vol.
10, Wildside Press, forthcoming)
The
Devils of
Black
Wind Blowing
(Graveyard Rats, Wildside Press)
The
Dead Remember
(End of the
Trail, Bison Books)
Miscellanea . .
.
The
Thunder-Rider
[first draft] (The
Black Stranger, Bison Books)
The
Thunder-Rider
[second draft] (The
Black Stranger, Bison Books)
Nekht
Semerkeht
[first draft] (The
Black Stranger, Bison Books)
Nekht
Semerkeht
[second draft] (The
Black Stranger, Bison Books)
The
Jade God
[fragment] (The “New” Howard Reader
#3, November 1998)
Black
Canaan
[original first synopsis] (unpublished)
The
Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger [essay] (The Black Stranger,
Bison Books & End of the Trail,
Bison Books)
Kelly
the Conjure-Man
[essay] (The
Black Stranger, Bison Books)
What I can’t figure out is
why wasn’t this collection the one that was released
by Bison Books. “The Black Stranger,” “Marchers of Valhalla,” “The Gods of
Bal-Sagoth” and “Black Vulmea’s Vengeance” could be covered in an article about
Howard’s use of Americana in these stories, but they really have no place in a
collection such as what The Black
Stranger could have been. Where was “The Shadow of the Beast?” Where were
“The Haunted Hut” and “The Shadow of Doom?” Where were “The Man on the Ground,”
“‘For the Love of Barbara Allen,’” “Moon of Zembabwei,” “Black Hound of Death,”
“The Devils of
