''The Dark Man and Others'' is a posthumously-published

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of fifteen short stories by American author

Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...

, named after his short story "The Dark Man", and covering the genres of adventure fiction,

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historical fiction Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other ty ...

, fantasy,

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, weird fiction and the weird West. It was first published in 1963 by Arkham House, and was edited by August Derleth. Eleven of the stories had previously been published in the

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'' Weird Tales'', and one each in ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Strange Tales''. It was reprinted in 1971 as a paperback by

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* Introduction, by August Derleth * The Voice of El-Lil *

Pigeons from Hell "Pigeons from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, written in late 1934 and published posthumously by ''Weird Tales'' in 1938. The title comes from an image in Howard's grandmother's ghost stories, that of a deserte ...

* The Dark Man * The Gods of Bal-Sagoth * People of the Dark *

The Children of the Night "The Children of the Night" is a 1931 short story by Robert E. Howard, belonging to the Cthulhu Mythos. It was first published in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in the April/May 1931 issue. Howard earned $60 for this publication.

* The Dead Remember * The Man on the Ground * The Garden of Fear * The Thing on the Roof * The Hyena * Dig Me No Grave * The Dream Snake * In the Forest of Villefère * Old Garfield's Heart

Bibliography

* Chalker, Jack L. (1998). ''The Science-Fantasy Publishers''. Mirage Press. * Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). ''The Arkham House Companion''. Starmont House. * Joshi, S. T. (1999). ''Sixty Years of Arkham House compiled by S. T. Joshi''. Arkham House. *Nielsen, Leon (2004). ''Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide''.

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