REH Fiction and Verse Timeline (of Composition)

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Rusty Burke compiled this timeline about 15 years ago after hundreds of hours studying letters, etc:



web.archive.org/web/20051223150250/http://www.rehupa.com/fiction_timeline.htm



In the years since Rusty published the timeline, a great deal of scholarship has been done in this regard, mostly by Patrice Louinet. Anyone who has access to Louinet's findings is welcome to quote them here. Also, any other discussions about the dates when Howard composed a particular piece of work are welcome, of course.

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As noted above, Burke used Howard's letters as a major source of information (along with other sources). Here is what Louinet noted in regard to REH's unsold/unfinished yarns:


Writing that his characters and stories came easily to him was customary with Howard, who almost never mentioned unfinished or unsold stories in his correspondence. In the case of the Kull series, for example, only three tales had been published while a dozen others were either left unfinished or rejected. Yet Howard wrote to Lovecraft:

“Thanks for the kind things you said about the Kull stories, but I doubt if I’ll ever be able to

write another. The three stories I wrote about that character seemed almost to write themselves,

without any planning on my part; there was no conscious effort on my part to work them up.

They simply grew up, unsummoned, full grown in my mind and flowed out on paper from my

finger tips.”

In fact, drafts survive for almost every Kull story, indicating that much more work was involved than Howard suggests. How then can we give credence to his intimation that the creation of the Conan stories was virtually a case of automatic writing?


Something Bob didn't tell HPL (and which Louinet doesn't mention above) was that there were several other completed Kull tales, some of which REH tried to sell.

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Feb 23, 2016 20:11:14 GMT -5 deuce said:

Rusty Burke compiled this timeline about 15 years ago after hundreds of hours studying letters, etc:



web.archive.org/web/20051223150250/http://www.rehupa.com/fiction_timeline.htm



In the years since Rusty published the timeline, a great deal of scholarship has been done in this regard, mostly by Patrice Louinet. Anyone who has access to Louinet's findings is welcome to quote them here. Also, any other discussions about the dates when Howard composed a particular piece of work are welcome, of course.

This is very handy and a revelation for me.

Thanks.

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Feb 24, 2016 15:56:27 GMT -5 @hunnu said:

Feb 23, 2016 20:11:14 GMT -5 deuce said:

Rusty Burke compiled this timeline about 15 years ago after hundreds of hours studying letters, etc:



web.archive.org/web/20051223150250/http://www.rehupa.com/fiction_timeline.htm



In the years since Rusty published the timeline, a great deal of scholarship has been done in this regard, mostly by Patrice Louinet. Anyone who has access to Louinet's findings is welcome to quote them here. Also, any other discussions about the dates when Howard composed a particular piece of work are welcome, of course.

This is very handy and a revelation for me.

Thanks.

No problem! I hope it helps out you and many other people. Great info in there. It'd be a shame for Rusty's work to go to waste.

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Feb 24, 2016 15:56:27 GMT -5 @hunnu said:

Feb 23, 2016 20:11:14 GMT -5 deuce said:

Rusty Burke compiled this timeline about 15 years ago after hundreds of hours studying letters, etc:



web.archive.org/web/20051223150250/http://www.rehupa.com/fiction_timeline.htm



In the years since Rusty published the timeline, a great deal of scholarship has been done in this regard, mostly by Patrice Louinet. Anyone who has access to Louinet's findings is welcome to quote them here. Also, any other discussions about the dates when Howard composed a particular piece of work are welcome, of course.

This is very handy and a revelation for me.

Thanks.

I thought I'd bump this handy thread.    

[Von K]

I managed to miss this post first time around. Some incredible sleuthing from Rusty. This offers another glimpse into REH's sheer production rate and creativity. It's also amazing how Patrice has been able to refine this using textual analysis.

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1921

"Bill Smalley and the Power of the Human Eye" submitted to Adventure and Western Story



1922-1923

"The Mystery of Summerton Castle" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales & Chicago Ledger


"Lal Singh-Adventurer" ("Lal Singh, Oriental Gentleman") submitted to Adventure


"The Feminine of the Species" ("The Female of the Species") submitted to Argosy-Allstory


"The Phantom of Old Egypt" [ms. lost] submitted to Weird Tales


"The Iron Terror" submitted to Cosmopolitan

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Damn. "The Mystery of Summerton Castle" and "The Phantom of Old Egypt" sound like cool stories. I'd take those over "The Feminine of the Species", which survived.

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Since it came up on another thread, I'm bumping this topic. By all means, if anyone has new data to add to Rusty Burke's original timeline, feel free to post here.   

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Turns out, Howard Works has a nice version of Burke's timeline. I find it easier to read and use, plus, it has hyperlinks:



howardworks.com/timeline.htm

[Von K]

Thanks Deuce!

Found a piece of info which helped with tPotD.

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Thanks Deuce.