SOURCE: "The Flame Knife" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp (1955)

DESCRIPTION: "From all sides, hordes of slinking gray shadows with unblinking, soulless eyes and misshapen, doglike jaws swarmed, to fasten upon any man they met, wherever a clawed but manlike hand could find a hold, and begin to tear him apart and devour him on the spot. Men struck at them with the strength of maniacal terror, but their corpselike skins seemedalmost impervious to weapons..." ("The Flame Knife" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)

NOTES: The ghouls of Yanaidar are the orginal holders of the city, returning to reclaim it from any humans who live there.

HISTORY: "The Flame Knife" is a re-write of Howard's The Three-Bladed Doom, a non-supernatural adventure story. It is likely L. Sprague de Camp added the monsters in this tale. The Yanaidar ghouls have dog-like heads the same as Lovecraftian ghouls.

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