The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
“Howard @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } “Let them make good their bargain!” he exclaimed angrily. “Then see, oh king!” cried Atla in a voice of piercing mockery.
There was a stir, a seething in the writhing shadows, and from the darkness crept, like a four-legged animal, a human shape that fell down and groveled at Bran’s feet and writhed and mowed, and lifting a death’s-head, howled like a dying dog. In the ghastly light, Bran, soul-shaken, saw the blank glassy ...eyes, the bloodless features, the loose, writhing, froth-covered lips of sheer lunacy–gods, was this Titus Sulla, the proud lord of life and death in Eboracum’s proud city? Bran bared his sword. “I had thought to give this stroke in vengeance,” he said somberly. “I give it in mercy– Vale Caesar!” The steel flashed in the eery light and Sulla’s head rolled to the foot of the glowing altar, where it lay staring up at the shadowed sky. “They harmed him not!”MoreLess
There was a stir, a seething in the writhing shadows, and from the darkness crept, like a four-legged animal, a human shape that fell down and groveled at Bran’s feet and writhed and mowed, and lifting a death’s-head, howled like a dying dog. In the ghastly light, Bran, soul-shaken, saw the blank glassy ...eyes, the bloodless features, the loose, writhing, froth-covered lips of sheer lunacy–gods, was this Titus Sulla, the proud lord of life and death in Eboracum’s proud city? Bran bared his sword. “I had thought to give this stroke in vengeance,” he said somberly. “I give it in mercy– Vale Caesar!” The steel flashed in the eery light and Sulla’s head rolled to the foot of the glowing altar, where it lay staring up at the shadowed sky. “They harmed him not!”MoreLess
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