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Kirby O’Donnell is a Howard hero less familiar to most readers. Howard only wrote three stories about O’Donnell’s exploits, of which only two actually saw print during his lifetime -- „The Treasures of Tartary” and „Swords of Shahrazar” -- neither in Weird Tales.

Written as Frank Aubrey, „The Mystery of an Artist’s Model” is a weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism. Little is known about Aubrey/Atkins. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and – in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus – began writing...

Gospodyni domowa i facet z korporacji, dżentelmen ze Lwowa i dwoje wieśniaków mówiących gwarą, doktorantka i makijażystka, Żyd i Japonka z przeszłością gejszy, zakompleksiona psycholożka, niedoszła zakonnica i ginekolog z prywatną praktyką. I tak - arbitralnie, ale nieprzypadkowo - dobrane grono osób zaczyna żyć własnym życiem; i, co paradoksalne, grupa nie rozpada się, nie pulsuje konfliktami. Staje...

The Soul Of A Regiment(Adventure, February 1912) SO long as its colors remain, and there is one man left to carry them, a regiment can never die; they can recruit it again around that one man, and the regiment will continue on its road to future glory with the same old traditions behind it and the same atmosphere surrounding it that made brave men of its forbears. So although the colors are not exactly...