Graveyard Rats and Others

Robert E. Howard came into the fiction magazine scene virtually on Dashell Hammetts heels. By that time Howard was a full-fledged professional writer; he was willing to try any marketplace to make a living. Despite an aversion to the detective formula he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron editor of The Dark Barbarian the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.