Robert E. Howard : The life and times of a Texas author / Willard M Oliver.

Prologue: Cross Plains, Texas, March 1932
"I seek a vicarious pride in my ancestry"
Dr. Isaac and Hester Ervin Howard, 1870-1906
A peripatetic childhood, 1906-1915
Post Oak Country, 1915-1919
Cross Plains, Texas, 1919
Influential authors, 1920-1922
Brownwood, Texas, 1922-1923
Struggling author, 1923-1924
Weird tales, 1925
On werewolves and horror yarns, 1925
"Ye college days," 1926-1927
The anguished poet, 1927
"The last Celt," 1927-1928
Solomon Kane and historical fantasy, 1928
Steve Costigan and the boxing yarns, 1929
King Kull and the birth of sword and sorcery, 1929
"Lovecraft, one of the greatest writers of our time," 1930
Bran Mak Morn and the Picts, 1930
Oriental stories, The magic carpet, and historical fiction, 1931
The Cthulhu mythos, 1931
Westerns both strange and true, 1932
"Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian," 1932
Steve Harrison and the detective yarns, 1933
Breckenridge Elkins and the tall tale yarns, 1934
El Borak and the adventure yarns, 1934
Novalyne Price, 1934-1935
Dark moods, 1935
Spicy pulps and shudder stories, 1936
Future Texas laureate, 1936
"In the realization that I must die," 1936
Epilogue "All fled, all done".