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Robert E. Howard

Spicy Adventures Hardcover Book

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At a Glance
Uncensored original manuscripts restored
Five new earliest-known drafts
262 pages hardcover edition
Robert E. Howard collection
Ultimate unedited adventure stories
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Those who are familiar with the previously published versions of the stories presented here in Spicy Adventures are in for a surprise in this volume. For if Howards agent, Otis Kline and us thought that Howards stories were perhaps too tame for publisher Armer, it turned out, upon examination of the surviving carbons and drafts, that it was in fact exactly the opposite all of the stories had been heavily censored when first published in Spicy Adventures (and thus in the 1983 edition.) In typical fashion, Howard had gone further than the guidelines imposed, stretching the boundaries as much as possible, probably because he understood what his readers wanted. This was nothing new.All of the Howard stories and portions thereof contained in Spicy Adventures come from Howards original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Virtually all of them were scanned from the Glenn Lord collection, now at the University of Texas, Austin the Robert E. Howard collection at Texas A&M University or the typescript collection at Cross Plains Library.CHANGES FROM THE 1ST EDITION In this Ultimate Edition, previously edited versions of "The Girl on the Hell Ship," "Ship in Mutiny," and "Daughters of Feud" have been restored to typescript. Five "new" earliestknown drafts have been added "Desert Blood," "Dragon of Kao Tsu," "Murderers Grog," "Guns of Khartoum," and "Daughters of Feud." We have also replaced the previous "early" drafts of "The Girl on the Hell Ship" and "Ship in Mutiny" with...

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Binding: Hardcover;262 pages; Publisher: REH Foundation Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 677.01 g; Dimensions: N/A

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