A selection of articles by L. Sprague de Cmp originally contributed to the early Conan fanzine Amra. When I firt read these forty plus years ago, the most useful articles in the original hardcover (this was before Forgotten Fantasy reprinted them in paperback), "'Conan's Imitators" introduced me to the "Prester John" series which I was able to find in paperback. "Pratt;s Parallel World discussed The Well, of he Unicorn, which I had already red in my father's copy, and The Blue Star which I later got in paperback. The "Exegesis": giving sources of the names in the Hyborian stories, ranging from obvious to improbable, provoked me to write an (unpublished) atricle pointing out some of Howard's sources were not nearly as obscure as De Camp supposed. ( )