"The Black City" (Fragment) by Robert E. Howard (Circa 1928?)

"Black Abyss" a posthumous collaboration with Lin Carter, based on this fragment, appeared in King Kull 1967. It first appeared in its original form in Kull: The Fabulous Warrior King (1978).

Plot: Brule comes to Kull complaining one of his warrior, Grogar, has disappeared. Brule was looking for him in the Jeweled Room when he spied a secret door closing in the wall. Brule shoved a sword into the crack then posted a guard named Manaro to watch it. The two go to the Jeweled Room to investigate and find Manaro dead. He has been stabbed though there is no blood. They hear eerie music piping.

Monsters:

None (Yet!)

History: Howard's original fragment only goes up to the point where Kull and Brule are investigating the disappearance of Grogar and Manaro. He does include hints that the cause is related to his story "The Valley of the Worm" with weird fluting. Carter picked up on this and writes a very Mythosian ending to the tale.

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