Always Comes Evening is a collection of poems by Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....

. It was released in 1957

1957 in literature

The year 1957 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Lawrence Durrell publishes the first volume of The Alexandria Quartet. The final of the four volumes will be published in 1960....

 and was the author's second book to be published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. It was released in an edition of 636 copies. The publication was subsidized by Howard's literary executor, Glenn Lord

Glenn Lord

Glenn Lord has been an agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard , and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard’s life and writings.- Biography :...

 who compiled the poems.

Contents

Always Comes Evening contains the following poems:

1. "Foreword", by Glenn Lord
   Glenn Lord
   Glenn Lord has been an agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard , and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard’s life and writings.- Biography :...
   
   
2. "Introduction", by Dale Hart
3. "Always Comes Evening"
4. "The Poets"
5. "The Singer in the Mist"
6. "Solomon Kane's Homecoming"
7. "Futility"
8. "The Song of the Bats"
9. "The Moor Ghost"
10. "Recompense"
11. "The Hills of Kandahar"
12. "Which Will Scarcely Be Understood"
13. "Haunting Columns"
14. "The Last Hour"
15. "Ships"
16. "The King and the Oak"
17. "The Riders of Babylon"
18. "Easter Island"
19. "Moon Mockery"
20. "Shadows on the Road"
21. "The Soul-Eater"
22. "The Dream and the Shadow"
23. "The Ghost Kings"
24. "Desert Dawn"
25. "An Open Window"
26. "The Song of a Mad Minstrel"
27. "The Gates of Nineveh"
28. "Fragment"
29. "The Harp of Alfred"
30. "Remembrance"
31. "Crete"
32. "Forbidden Magic"
33. "Black Chant Imperial"
34. "A Song Out of Midian"
35. "Arkham"
36. "Voices of the Night"
37. "Song at Midnight"
38. "The Ride of Falume"
39. "Autumn"
40. "Dead Man's Hate"
41. "One Who Comes at Eventide"
42. "To A Woman"
43. "Emancipation"
44. "Retribution"
45. "Chant of the White Beard"
46. "Rune/ The Road of Azrael"
47. "Song of the Pict"
48. "Prince and Beggar"
49. "Hymn of Hatred"
50. "Invective"
51. "Men of the Shadows"
52. "Babylon"
53. "Niflheim"
54. "The Heart of the Sea's Desire"
55. "Laughter in the Gulf"
56. "A Song of the Don Cossacks"
57. "The Gods of Easter Island"
58. "Nisapur"
59. "Moon Shame"
60. "The Tempter"
61. "Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die"
62. "Chapter Headings"

Reprints

Always Comes Evening was reprinted by Underwood-Miller

Underwood-Miller

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 in 1977 in both limited (206 copies) and trade (2,200 copies) editions. A new introduction by Glenn Lord

Glenn Lord

Glenn Lord has been an agent, editor, and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard , and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard’s life and writings.- Biography :...

replaced both of the introductions in the earlier edition. The order of the poems was also rearranged and one additional poem, "A Crown for a King" was added.