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. Clark, published in _The Hyborian Age_ (Los Angeles: LANY Cooperative Publications, 1938) and on the expanded version of this essay, _An Informal Biography of Conan the Cimmerian_, by P. Schuyler Miller, John D. Clark, and L. Sprague de Camp, published in _Amra_, Vol. 2, No. 4, copyright 1959 by G.H. Scithers, used by permission of G.H. Scithers. _Amra_ (Box 9120, Chicago, 60690) is the organ of the Hyborian Legion, a loose organization of people who make a hobby of tales of heroic fantasy and of the Conan stories in particular.
INTRODUCTION
Of all the many kinds of fiction, the one that gives the purest entertainment is heroic fantasy: the story of swordplay and sorcery, laid in an imaginary world -- either this planet as it was long ago, or in the remote future, or on another world, or in another dimension -- where magic works and all men are mighty, all women beautiful, all problems simple, and all life adventurous. In such a world, gleaming cities raise their shining spires against the stars; sorcerer cast sinister spells from subterranean lairs; baleful spirits stalk crumbling ruins; primeval monsters crash through jungle thickets; and the fate of kingdoms is balanced on the bloody blades of broadswords brandished by heroes of preternatural might and valor.
One of the greatest writers of heroic fantasy was Robert Ervin Howard (1906-36), who lived most of his short life in Cross Plains, Texas
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