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Introduction
Draft A is one of three known surviving drafts of Howard’s essay The Hyborian Age. The Robert E. Howard Foundation presented Drafts A–C in a chapbook for Legacy Circle members; the texts derive from Howard’s original typescripts, furnished by Glenn Lord and supplied to the Foundation by Patrice Louinet.
This draft develops Howard’s long pseudohistorical sequence of cataclysms, migrations and the rise and fall of civilizations that forms the background to the Conan era and its imagined prehistory.
See also:
THE HYBORIAN AGE, DRAFT B, and DRAFT C.