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

DESCRIPTION: "It was like a ghoulish incarnation of a terrible legend, clad in flesh and bone; a giant ape, as tall on its gnarled legs as a gorilla. It was like the monstrous man-apes that hunted the mountains around the Vilayet Sea...but it was even larger; its hair was longer and shaggier, as of an arctic beast, and paler, as ashen grey that was almost white. Its feet and hands were more manlike than those of a gorilla, the great toes and thumbs being more like those of man than of the anthropoid. It was no tree-dweller but a beast bred on great plains and gaunt mountains. The face was apish in general appearance, though the nose-bridge was more pronounced, the jaw less bestial. But its manlike features merely increased the dreadfulness of its aspect, and the intelligence which gleamed from its small red eyes were wholly malignant." ("The Flame Knife" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp)

NOTES: The snow ape lives in a labyrinth-like canyons near the the city of Vendhya.

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.

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