SOURCES:
"The Slithering Shadow" by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales, September 1933)
 

DESCRIPTION: "She saw a giant toad-like face, the features of which were dim and unstable as those of a specter seen in a mirror of nightmare.  Great pools of light that might have been eyes blinked at her, and she shook at the cosmic lust reflected there ... Only the blinking toad-like face stood out with any distinctness.  The thing was a blur in to the sight, a black blot of shadow that normal radiance would neither dissipate nor illuminate...
It towered above him like a clinging black cloud.  It seemed to flow about him.  His madly slashing saber sheared through it again and again, his ripping poinard tore and rent it; he was deluged with a slimy liquid that must have been its sluggish blood.  Yet its fury was no wise abated." ("The Slithering Shadow" by Robert E. Howard)

NOTES: Thog is a creature raised by the ancient sorcerers of Xuthal. The descendents of these people live in drug-induced dreams, waiting for Thog to show up and eat them. Thog is very hard to kill because of his transdimensional nature.

HISTORY: Thog is one of the more Lovecraftian of the Howard Conan monsters. For more on that see my article here.

INTERESTING LINK
 

Margaret Brundridge's S&M cover

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