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The Black Stone

Robert E. Howard

First published 1972
Type Poem

This is a verse heading, and appears at the start of the story of the same name, first published in Weird Tales, November 1931. It is attributed in the story to Justin Geoffrey.
First published without a story in Inside & Science Fiction Advertiser, September 1956.
Also appears in The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House in an essay by Lin Carter titled "HPL: The Books"; in Dark Things, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House and Black Canaan, Berkley in the story "The House in the Oaks", a Howard fragment completed after his death by Derleth; in The Caller of the Black by Brian Lumley in the story "In the Vaults Beneath"; and in Lovecraft: A Look behind the Cthulhu Mythos by Lin Carter, in the chapter titled "The Spawn of the Old Ones".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1972 Cover Echoes from an Iron Harp Donald M. Grant Collection 103
February 1982 Cover Crypt of Cthulhu, Candlemas 1982 Robert M. Price FANZINE 9
January 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 196
April 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 196
August 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 196
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 424
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 424