(Long introduction by Steven Tompkins)
The Black Stranger
Marchers of Valhala
The Gods of Bal-Sagoth
Nekht Semerkeht
Black Vulmea's Vengeance
The Strange Case of Josiah Wilbarger
The Valley of the Lost
Kelly the Conjure-Man
Black Canaan
Pigeons from Hell
Old Garfield's Heart
The Horror from the Mound
The Thunder-Rider
"The Classic Tale of the Southwest"
The Grim Land (poem)

This collection copyright 2005; all stories entirely by Robert E. Howard; selection of stories by Steven Tompkins. Five appeared in Weird Tales, one in Golden Fleece - from 1931 to 1938. The others saw posthumous first publication in Echoes of Valor (1987 "as Howard intended"), Marchers of Valhala (1972), Swords Against Darkness (1977), The Grim Land (1976), The West and Startling Mystery Stories (1967), The Howard Collector (1964); "The Classic Tale of the Southwest" is a pair of excerpts from letters to August Derleth or H.P. Lovecraft (1933,1935.) In many cases, text is specified as "taken from Howard's typescript."