Title: Futility ("Golden goats on a hillside black ...")

Title: Futility ("Golden goats on a hillside black ...") Title Record # 108793
Author: Robert E. Howard
Date: 1937-11-00
Type: POEM
Language: English

Note: First published in Weird Tales, November 1937. Sometimes referred to as version 1 of the 2 poems with this title written by Howard. Nearly identical to Howard's poem "Moonlight on a Skull", with only a handful of word changes.

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Year	Title
1947	Futility [as by Robert Ervin Howard]

Year	Language	Title
1987^ⓘTranslated by François Truchaud	French	Futilité ("Boucs dorés...")

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Weird Tales, November 1937	1937-11-00	ed. Farnsworth Wright	Popular Fiction Publishing Co.		$0.25^?$: US dollar	132	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	M. Brundage
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre	1947-00-00	ed. August Derleth	Arkham House		$3.00^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 418	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Frank Utpatel
Always Comes Evening: The Collected Poems of Robert E. Howard	1957-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Arkham House		$3.00^?$: US dollar	x+ 86	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Frank Utpatel
The Howard Collector, #4 Summer 1963	1963-00-00	ed. Glenn Lord	Glenn Lord		$0.60^?$: US dollar	39	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	fanzine
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre	1969-00-00	ed. August Derleth	Books for Libraries Press	0-8369-6056-4		xvi+ 418	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Rhymes of Death	1975-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Dennis McHaney		$3.00^?$: US dollar	32	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	coll	Tom Foster
Rhymes of Death	1975-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Dennis McHaney		$2.00^?$: US dollar	32	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	coll	Tom Foster
Always Comes Evening	1977-06-00	Robert E. Howard	Underwood-Miller	0-934438-01-3	$10.00^?$: US dollar	110	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Keiko Nelson
Always Comes Evening	1977-06-00	Robert E. Howard	Underwood-Miller	0-934438-01-3	$31.00^?$: US dollar	110	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Keiko Nelson
Chants de guerre et de mort	1987-03-00	Robert E. Howard	Néo	2-7304-0433-3		155	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Jean-Michel Nicollet
Chants de guerre et de mort	1988-04-00	Robert E. Howard	Néo	2-7304-0488-0		145	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Jean-Michel Nicollet
The Weird Writings of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: August 1934-September 1954	2006-03-00	Robert E. Howard	Girasol Collectables		$100.00^?$: US dollar	vi+ 631	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Neal Adams
The Weird Writings of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: August 1934-September 1954	2006-03-00	Robert E. Howard	Girasol Collectables		$112.50^?$: US dollar	vi+ 631	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Neal Adams
The Midtown Trestler Special, #2 March 2006	2006-03-00	ed. Tom Foster	Tom Foster			[40]	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	fanzine	Tom Foster
Black Hounds of Death	2009-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Wildside Press	978-0-8095-7154-3	$35.00^?$: US dollar	192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Stephen Fabian
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	2009-01-00	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$59.00^?$: US dollar	lxxix+ 728	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	2009-04-00	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$59.00^?$: US dollar	lxxix+ 728	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard	2009-08-00	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$59.00^?$: US dollar	lxxix+ 728	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Singer in the Mist & Others	2010-03-00	Robert E. Howard	Stanza Press (The Complete Poems from Weird Tales #2)	978-1-84863-079-6	£11.99^?£: UK pound	xii+ 33	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Gary Gianni
Black Hounds of Death	2011-07-27	Robert E. Howard	Wildside Press	978-1-4344-3786-0	$2.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Black Hounds of Death	2015-07-27	Robert E. Howard	Wildside Press	978-1-4794-0662-3	$2.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Weird Tales (disc 4, part 1)	2019-00-00	ed. uncredited					unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	anth

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