The Cimmerian #1 volume 1

DELUXE COPIES DESTROYED: 0LIMITED COPIES DESTROYED: 19Features a twenty-thousand word symposium focused on the Wandering Star Robert E. Howard Library of Classics, plus poetry from Richard L. Tierney, Announcements, Howard History, and more.

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I wonder what strange parasitic compulsion pushes such lesser talents as de Camp, and now Louinet, to add their own pointless baggage to Howard’s work?— from “Conan the Expensive” by Don HerronThis is what most fans have wanted all along. Let’s admit it. When older-timers like myself were first reading Conan in the Lancer editions in the 1960s, we either skipped over or just endured the de Camp/Carter filler stories, which were pretty weak stuff compared to genuine Howard.— from “The One and Authentic Cimmerian” by Darrell SchweitzerThat the editor of the current Conan books sees nothing wrong with silently appropriating his more-famous counterpart’s most-famous critical idea, even while simultaneously ostracizing him from the debate, says it all about how careless and unprofessional the current Howard orthodoxy has become.— from “Napoleon’s Triumph?” by Gary RomeoThese men have given Howard a textual permanence of a kind few authors ever achieve. In doing so, they have assured a sort of immortality for themselves, one that will have future generations speaking highly of them, long after the current edition’s window dressing — art and fonts and criticism — are forgotten.— from “Hell Needs a New Devil” by Leo Grin