SOURCE: "The Chain of Forgomon" by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales, December 1935)

DESCRIPTION: "While Atmox looked on in silence, I wounded my right arm to its deepest vein on the sharp-tipped gnomon of the dial; and, letting the blood drip from zone to zone, from orb to orb on the graven agate, I made unlawful sacrifice, and intoned aloud, in the name of the Lurking Chaos, Xexanoth, an abominable ritual composed by a backward repetition and jumbling of litanies sacred to the time-god..."

NOTES: There is no real description of Xexanoth but he is an evil god who can counter time.

HISTORY: This story is a classic Smith set-up, with the protagonist reaching back into time to discover his doom.

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