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• 1 •  Odes at the Black Dog • interior artwork by Tom Foster
• 4 • Introduction (Odes at the Black Dog) • essay by Paul Herman
• 5 • Always Comes Evening • (1936) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 7 • Autumn • (1933) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 8 • Dreams of Ninevah • (1959) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 9 • Fables for Little Folks • (1926) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 10 • The Ghost Kings • (1938) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 11 • The Harp of Alfred • (1928) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 12 • Kid Lavigne Is Dead • (1928) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 13 • The King and the Oak • [Kull of Valusia] • (1939) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 15 • The Kissing of Sal Snooboo • (1925) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 16 • Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die • (1938) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 17 • The Poets • (1938) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 18 • Recompense • (1938) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 20 • Remembrance • (1928) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 21 • Ships • (1938) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 22 • The Singer in the Mist • [Sonnets Out of Bedlam • 5] • (1938) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 23 • Solomon Kane's Homecoming • [Solomon Kane] • (1936) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 26 • The Song of a Mad Minstrel • (1931) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 28 • The Tempter • (1937) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 30 • To a Woman ("Though fathoms deep you sink me in the mold...") • (1933) • poem by Robert E. Howard