‘An Index of Doom’
Out of the Dust Shall Acheron Arise: Chapter 21 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon
Reading from pages 227-34 of the DelRey edition
For men, one cagey, one worried, one haunted and one drunk turn to look stage right at a shadowy menace that casts its pal across the throne-like chair of the rightmost man with his back to the door.
My potential titles included:
“The lambent Lights of Hell” and “To the Bloody Block.”
For his first novel Howar…