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Iron Men

 

Howard’s love of boxing shows through in his serious boxing fiction. I feel there is enough of this for a collection

 

Ace Jessel & Other Ghostly Boxing . . .

The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux (Boxing Stories, Bison Books & Waterfront Fists and Others, Wildside Press) Howard’s original third-person final draft has never been published.

Double Cross (Robert E. Howard: Power of the Writing Mind)

The Mark of a Bloody Hand (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

The Voice of Doom (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

 

Other Boxing Stories . . .

The Champ [poem] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #2, September 1990)

Iron Men (The Iron Man) (Boxing Stories, Bison Books & Waterfront Fists & Others, Wildside Press)

They Always Come Back (Boxing Stories, Bison Books)

Fists of the Desert (Iron-Jaw) (Boxing Stories, Bison Books)

The Sign of the Snake (Steve McClarney version) (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #5, forthcoming)

Crowd-Horror (Boxing Stories, Bison Books) Howard’s original, longer, final draft has never been published.

In the Ring [poem] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #4, October 1996)

Thoroughbreds (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

The Splendid Brute (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

The Ghost Behind the Gloves (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

Untitled (Spike Morissey was as …)   (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

The Fighting Fury (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #10, forthcoming)

The Right Hook (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #10, forthcoming)

When You Were a Set-Up and I Was a Ham [poem] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #2, September 1990)

Night Encounter [fragment] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #10, forthcoming)

The Atavist [fragment] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #10, forthcoming) A primal World War One veteran is only at home in the ring.

 

Miscellanea . . .

The Spirit of Brian Boru [early work] (The “New” Howard Reader #6, Autumn 1999)

Slugger’s Vow [poem] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #4, October 1996)

The Punch [essay] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew [essay] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

Men of Iron [essay - unfinished] (Robert E. Howard’s Fight Magazine #9, forthcoming)

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