Iron Shadows in the Moon by Robert E. Howard - First published as "Shadows In The Moonlight" in Weird Tales, April 1934 -
Chapter 1
A SWIFT CRASHING of horses through the tall reeds; a heavy fall, a despairing cry. From the dying steed there staggered up its rider, a slender girl in sandals and girdled tunic. Her dark hair fell over her white shoulders, her eyes were those of a trapped animal.
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The God in the Bowl by Robert E. Howard --
Rejected by Weird Tales magazine editor Farnsworth Wright in 1932, it was not published in Howard's lifetime.
ARUS the watchman grasped his crossbow with shaky hands, and he felt beads of clammy perspiration on his skin as he stared at the unlovely corpse sprawling on the polished floor before him. It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.