Slave of the Ring
Its outline was not unlike that of a gigantic baboon, but no such baboon ever walked the earth, not even in Stygia, and the hideousness of its face transcended mere bestiality. It might have been the face of an ancient, evil mummy, quickened with demonic life.
Its outline was not unlike that of a gigantic baboon, but no such baboon ever walked the earth, not even in Stygia, and the hideousness of its face transcended mere bestiality. It might have been the face of an ancient, evil mummy, quickened with demonic life. In those abhorrent features the outlaw's dilated eyes seemed to see, like a shadow in the madness that enveloped him, a faint and terrible resemblance to the slave Thoth-Amon.