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This might be the best Robert E. Howard pastiche novel I've read -- even better than Wagner's Conan: The Road of Kings. Mostly, this is a sequel to Robert E. Howard's story "Worms of the Earth", in which Bran Mak Morn made an alliance with terrible forces from the outer dark to take down some particularly odious Romans. Now those forces (including the witch-woman Atla) have come back to bite him (and his sister Morgain -- had we met her in any of Howard's stories?) in the butt, and Bran and Morg
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To my thinking, definitely the best pastiche of a Robert E. Howard character ever written. It isn't Conan, but Bran Mak Morn. A really good book.
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