“By the way, I sold another story, same company. “Wolfshead” twentyfive pages $40.00. After reading it, I’m not altogether sure I wasnt off my noodler when I wrote it.”

— Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (October 9, 1925)
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American author 1906–1936

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