Series
Breckinridge Elkins
Robert E. Howard · 1 novel · 3 novelettes · 27 short stories · 9 collections · 1934–2017
Robert E. Howard's Breckinridge Elkins stories follow a hulking, guileless mountain man from Bear Creek, Nevada, whose earnest attempts to help his neighbors and court a girl reliably spiral into brawls, wrecked towns, and outsized tall-tale violence. Written as comic pulp westerns rather than the grim adventure fiction Howard is best known for, the stories were originally serialized in magazines during the 1930s. They've since been repackaged across many overlapping anthology and omnibus editions.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Breckinridge Elkins at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1930s21
- 1940s1
- 1950s1
- 1960s3
- 1970s1
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s6
- 2010s7
Shape
1 novel · 3 novelettes · 27 short stories · 9 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:westernsnorth america19th centuryfunnyadultshort story cycle
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book27 of 40 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Apache Mountain Wardarkest · most intense
- War on Bear Creekbrightest · calmest