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The People of the Serpent

Robert E. Howard

First published March 1999
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Original Howard title for the story published as "Fangs of Gold". Strange Detective Stories published this story and "The Tomb's Secret" (under Howard's Patrick Ervin pseudonym) in the same issue, February 1934. Apparently, the titles for the two stories got reversed; the titles really fit the opposite stories. Howard's agent, Otis Adelbert Kline, kept a list of stories sold, and on that list, "Fangs of Gold" is hand-written in above "The People of the Serpent".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1999 Cover The "New" Howard Reader, #5 March 1999 Joe & Mona Marek FANZINE 14
January 2011 Cover Steve Harrison's Casebook The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 37
January 2011 Cover Steve Harrison's Casebook The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 37
January 2011 Cover Steve Harrison's Casebook The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 37
June 2022 Cover Steve Harrison's Casebook The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 37