I've been rereading a lot of my old Conan paperbacks of late & I don't share the same opinion as many of the R.E.H.' purists. de Camp on his own, or when teamed wit Lin Carter or Bjorn Nyberg, wrote some fantastic Conan tales. I just finished de Camp's short story Legions of the Dead, which chronologically, is Conan's 2nd tale, & it was just fantastic. It ends w/ Conan being captured by Aiser warriors & will conclude w/ The Thing In The Crypt (which was semi-used in the 1st Conan movie).
de Camp's take is mixed generously in many of the old Conan' Bantam paperbacks along w/ the original Howard tales & the flow, imo, is never broken. If anything, I find the de Camp/Carter/Nyberg additions to really help in the telling of Conan's life from 15 to 75.
What do my fellow Conan readers think of these non-Howard fillers?