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”For stark, living fearWhat other writer is even in the running with Robert E Howard?”

-H P LOVECRAFT

”Horote pulp adventure stories of every kind, for every market he could find, but his real love was for supernatural adventure and he brought a brash, tough elee the course of the Aery as Hae the course of American detective fiction”

-MICHAEL MOORcock

Ainning author of the Elric saga

”In this, I think, the art of Robert E Hoas hard to surpass: vigor, speed, vividness And always there is that furious, galloping narrative pace”

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-POUL ANDERSON

”Howard honestly believed the basic truth of the stories he was telling It's as if he'd said, 'This is how life really was lived in those fore times!' ”

-DAVID DRAKE

Author of Gri, nonstop adventure and for vivid, even florid, scenery, no one even comes close to Howard”

-HARRY TURTLEDOVE

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The Co of Conan the Cimmerian is a work of fiction Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author's iination or are used fictitiously

A Del ReyBook Published by The Randoht 2003 by Conan Properties International, LLC

Conan is a registered trademark of Conan Properties International, LLC

Editor: Patrice Louinet Series Editor: Rusty BurkeAll rights reserved under International and Pan-Aht Conventions

Published in the United States by The Rando Group, a division of Random House, Inc, New York Previously published in Great Britain by Wandering Star, Ltd, in 2002This edition published by arrangeistered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a tradeitalcoress Control Number: 2003095182

eISBN 0-345-46995-X

428v10 Cimmeria

first published The Howard Collector, Winter 1965