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Post by johnnypt on Mar 22, 2023 10:23:15 GMT -5
Griping once again we don't have a version of this in line with all of the other collections. I wish REH press could do a version arranged chronologically with things like Redflame and the Malachi Grim Blades of the Brotherhood (as well as the John Pocsik version) added for completeness. So far SK seems to be the one major character outside of Breck Elkins that doesn't have any major tie-ins with the rest of the REHU other than the Atlantean outpost in Moon of Skulls.
The main thing is it'd interesting to know when the two (or three) fragments were written in relation to the other stories. Was Footfalls Witihin the last story written or did he try Hawk of Basti or Children of Asshur after? Thematically Wings of the Night should be the closer like it is publication-wise, but history is never that tidy.
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Post by elegos7 on Mar 22, 2023 16:03:51 GMT -5
Griping once again we don't have a version of this in line with all of the other collections. I wish REH press could do a version arranged chronologically with things like Redflame and the Malachi Grim Blades of the Brotherhood (as well as the John Pocsik version) added for completeness. So far SK seems to be the one major character outside of Breck Elkins that doesn't have any major tie-ins with the rest of the REHU other than the Atlantean outpost in Moon of Skulls. The main thing is it'd interesting to know when the two (or three) fragments were written in relation to the other stories. Was Footfalls Witihin the last story written or did he try Hawk of Basti or Children of Asshur after? Thematically Wings of the Night should be the closer like it is publication-wise, but history is never that tidy.
Well, Patrice has written an essay about the genesis of Solomon Kane in the French edition back in 2008. Unfortunately, Del Rey was not interested in updating their English version.
In his essay Patrice has given some dates for the composition of the Solomon Kane stories.
REH completed the first story, Solomon Kane (Red Shadows) by January 1928. After a few shorter stories and fragments he has written three longer stories in the spring of 1929, The Hills of the Dead, The Moon of Skulls and The Blue Flame of Vengeance. The Jeremy Hawk fragment was written either in 1929 or 1930.
Wings in the Night came in the spring of 1930, and The Footfalls Within, the last completed Solomon Kane story, in the fall of 1930, after he started corresponding with Lovecraft.
The Asshur fragment in the first half of 1931 was the last time REH has written about Solomon Kane.
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Post by johnnypt on Mar 23, 2023 5:12:49 GMT -5
Patrice told me he’d done exactly this back when the Bragelonne edition came out. Unfortunately there’s never been an English edition. Very frustrating. Why the SK volume didn’t get the same treatment as the other volumes right from the start is beyond me. I ended up writing down a hand written list of the order from the Bragelonne edition and putting it by the contents page so I could read it chronologically
Thanks for the dates!
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