SOURCE: "The Bloodstained God" by Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp  (Tales of Conan, 1955)

DESCRIPTION: "They saw the god, a thing of gold crusted with flaming gems. The statue, a little bigger than life size, was in the form of a dwarfish man standing upright on great splay feet on a block of basalt. The statue faced the entrance, and on each side of it stood a great carven chair of dense black wood, inlaid with gems and mother-of-pearl in a style unlike that of any living nation." ("The Bloodstained God" by Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp)

NOTES: The Bloodstained God is housed in the temple in the Kezankian Mountains between the borders of Koth and Zamora. The idol is kept next to a large chasm into which it throws its sacrifices once animated. Conan destroyed it by knocking it into the chasm.

HISTORY: This story has a convoluted history. Howard wrote it as a Conan tale but couldn't sell it so he re-wrote it as an adventure story set in Afghanistan. L. Sprague de Camp re-wrote it into a Conan story. It was adapted in comic form in Conan Super Special #9 (1978).