"The Footfalls Within" by Robert E. Howard () Originally appeared in Weird Tales, September 1931. Plot: Solomon Kane follows a band of Arab slavers who have taken the people of a friendly village. When he sees the cruel men about to skin a girl as a diversion he loses control and fires upon them. This results in them surrounding him. At a great cost in lives they subdue Kane and tie him up. He is to be sold to certain Arabs who Kane scarred when he escaped from slavery years before. One of the slavers, Yussef, takes Kane's cat-headed juju staff and asks him querstions about it, at the same time as he tells Kane it is older than Atlantis. The Arabs happen upon a strange mausoleum as the day's travel ends. The leader of the Arabs, Hassim ben Said, is lured by the thoughts of treasure to have the vault opened even though Kane can hear monstrous footfalls within the structure. When the lock is smashed an evil vapor escapes, killing Hassim. The other Arabs flee. Kane breaks his bonds and retrieves his staff. With this he kills the elder thing, even as Solomon could do ages before. he releases the slaves and continues on his way. Monsters Vaporous Elder Thing - trapped by King Solomon in a stone crypt it is released and kills with its pure evil History: An alternate version of the Kull story "The Skull of Silence". This version is better because the hro isn't fool enough to release the monster in the first place.
Adapted in Marvel Preview #19 (Summer 1979) written by Donald F. Glut and drawn by Will Meugniot and Steve Gan
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