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Title: The Secret of Lost Valley Title Record # 525469
Author: Robert E. Howard
Date: 1967-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Word count: 9750 words.
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1975ⓘThis is not the same story that was mistakenly published in The Magazine of Horror, Summer 1966 as "Valley of the Lost". DO NOT MERGE or VARIANT these records. Background: "Valley of the Lost" was originally scheduled for Strange Tales but that pulp went belly-up before "Lost" saw print. In 1965, Glen Lord (executor for the Howard estate) sent a manuscript to RAWL titled "King of the Lost People," proclaiming that it was the story once slated for Strange Tales. Lowndes excitedly accepted the story for publication. Just as the issue was coming off the press, Lord contacted Lowndes with the news that "Valley of the Lost" was, oops, not really "King of the Lost People," because Lord had just found another "six boxes of Howard's papers and files" and "Valley of the Lost" was among the papers included (with annotations by Strange Tales editor Harry Bates). Definitely two different stories. The real "Valley of the Lost" later ran in Startling Mystery Stories. (per barebonesez.blogspot.com. At least one publication refers to the first appearance in Startling Mystery Stories as being titled "Secret of Lost Valley", rather than "The Secret of Lost Valley". This is the title on the cover, not in the interior per ISFDB standards.
 The Valley of the Lost
1975 Valley of the Lost
Year Language Title
1985ⓘTranslated by François Truchaud
 French La vallée perdue
1993ⓘTranslated by Ulla Selkälä
 Finnish Kadotettujen laakso
2012ⓘTranslated by Heinz Zwack.
 German Das Tal der Verlorenen
2015ⓘTranslated by Patrice Louinet
 French La vallée perdue
2015ⓘTranslated by Annarita Guarnieri
 Italian La valle degli esseri perduti

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Startling Mystery Stories, Spring 1967 1967-00-00 ed. Robert A. W. Lowndes Health Knowledge, Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
 132
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".
 mag Virgil Finlay Checkmark
The Robert E. Howard Omnibus 1977-00-00 Robert E. Howard Orbit Book / Futura Publications 0-86007-955-4
£0.90?£: UK pound
 336
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Peter Jones Checkmark
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