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The Grim Land

Robert E. Howard

First published 1976
Type Poem

First published in The Grim Land and Others, Stygian Isle Press.
Taken from a Howard letter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. June 1931 ("Dear Mr. Lovecraft: / I didn't take much of a trip after all...").
Lines 1-8 and 17-24 are nearly identical to lines 1-16 of Howard's poem "Sonora to Del Rio".
Parts of this poem appear in Dark Valley Destiny by L. Sprague de Camp, Bluejay (lines 1-8 on p. 98); in The Dark Barbarian, ed. Don Herron (line 1 on p. 44); and in The Man from Cross Plains: A Centennial Celebration of Two-Gun Bob Howard by Dennis McHaney (lines 17-20 on p. 235).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1976 Cover The Grim Land and Others Stygian Isle Press Collection 15
2002 Cover Dear HPL: Letters, Robert E. Howard to H. P. Lovecraft 1930-1936 Robert E. Howard Properties Nonfiction [56]
August 2003 Cover The Howard Reader, #8 August 2003 Joe & Mona Marek FANZINE 25
April 2005 Cover The Black Stranger and Other American Tales Bison Books Collection 349
April 2005 Cover The Black Stranger and Other American Tales Bison Books Collection 349
June 2007 Cover Rhymes of Texas and the Old West The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 17
December 2007 Cover The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Grim Lands Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 279
January 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 302
February 2009 Cover A Word from the Outer Dark Project Pride Collection 6
February 2009 Cover A Word from the Outer Dark Project Pride Collection 6
April 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 302
August 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 302
September 2009 Cover A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard Volume 1: 1930-1932 Hippocampus Press Nonfiction 178
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 342
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 342
March 2011 Cover A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard Volume 1: 1930-1932 Hippocampus Press Nonfiction 178
January 2017 Cover A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard Volume 1: 1930-1932 Hippocampus Press Nonfiction 178