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An Open Window

Robert E. Howard

First published September 1932
Type Poem

Notes

DO NOT CONFUSE with the Howard poem "The Open Window".
First published in the magazine Weird Tales, September 1932.
Also appears in the story "Dark Shapes Rising" by James Shoffner in The Auburn Circle, Spring 1976.
Appears in World Fantasy Commentator #45/46, Winter 1993/94 and in The Book of Madness: Whispers Without, Chaos Within by Bill Bridges, Steven Brown, Sam Inabinet, Kathleen Ryan & Phil Brucato, White Wolf (p.15).
Appears in the story "The House in the Oaks", which was based on a Howard fragment titled "The House", completed after Howard's death by August Derleth. This story appears in Dark Things, Arkham House; Black Canaan, Berkley; In Lovecraft's Shadow, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box / Mycroft & Moran; and Nameless Cults, Chaoseum.

Publications (35)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1932 Cover Weird Tales, September 1932 Popular Fiction Publishing Co. MAGAZINE 337
1957 Cover Always Comes Evening: The Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard Arkham House Collection 33
1975 Cover Rhymes of Death Dennis McHaney Collection 7
1975 Cover Rhymes of Death Dennis McHaney Collection 7
June 1977 Cover Always Comes Evening Underwood-Miller Collection 48
June 1977 Cover Always Comes Evening Underwood-Miller Collection 48
May 1987 Cover Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors Baen Books Collection 247
May 1987 Cover Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors Baen Books Collection 247
September 1989 Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors Baen Books Collection 247
March 1992 Cover Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors Baen Books Collection 247
2004 Cover Adventure Tales, #1 Winter 2004-2005 Wildside Press MAGAZINE 24
2005 Cover Wings in the Night Wildside Press Collection 40
January 2006 Cover The Weird Writings of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1: July 1925-June 1934 Girasol Collectables Collection 379
January 2006 Cover The Weird Writings of Robert E. Howard, Volume 1: July 1925-June 1934 Girasol Collectables Collection 379
October 2006 Wings in the Night: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Volume 4 Wildside Press Collection 40
2007 Cover Winds of Time Thomas Kovacs Collection 96
January 2007 Cover Wings in the Night Wildside Press Collection 54
July 2008 Cover The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 337
October 2008 Cover The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 337
October 2008 Cover The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard Del Rey / Ballantine Collection |337
January 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 187
February 2009 Cover A Word from the Outer Dark Project Pride Collection 164
February 2009 Cover A Word from the Outer Dark Project Pride Collection 164
April 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 187
August 2009 Cover The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press Collection 187
October 2009 Cover Halloween at the Dog and Duck Dennis McHaney Collection 21
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 35
November 2009 Cover Robert E. Howard: Selected Poems Frank Coffman Collection 35
March 2010 Cover The Singer in the Mist & Others Stanza Press Collection 17
March 2010 Cover The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard Tantor Media Collection |337
September 2010 Cover The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard Subterranean Press Collection 337
September 2010 Cover The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard Subterranean Press Collection 337
December 2010 Cover The Book of The Howard Review: The Howard Review Anthology Dennis McHaney Collection 51
July 2015 Cover Wings in the Night Wildside Press Collection
2019 Weird Tales (disc 3, part 1) Anthology 337|32003337