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Conan fights Thog beneath the desert city of Xuthal, whose inhabitants dream the dream of the Black Lotus while their 'god' stirs at times in hunger to feed upon them. Conan saves his girl Natala from the creature's clutches after she is offered as a sacrifice by their priestess Thalis of Stygia. No one messes with his girl by Crom!

I intentionally suggested the shapes of two blossoms in the composition of this piece to evoke the shadow of the Black Lotus that REH so artfully entwined into his tale.

In that hurricane of battle they were rolling over and over, farther and farther down the tunnel. Conan's brain reeled with the punishment he was taking. His breath came in whistling gasps between his teeth. High above him he saw a great toadlike face, dimly limned in an eery glow that seemed to emanate from it.

From Robert E Howard's 'The Slithering Shadow'

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Conan fights Thog beneath the desert city of Xuthal, whose inhabitants dream the dream of the Black Lotus while their 'god' stirs at times in hunger to feed upon them. Conan saves his girl Natala from the creature's clutches after she is offered as a sacrifice by their priestess Thalis of Stygia. No one messes with his girl by Crom!

I intentionally suggested the shapes of two blossoms in the composition of this piece to evoke the shadow of the Black Lotus that REH so artfully entwined into his tale.

In that hurricane of battle they were rolling over and over, farther and farther down the tunnel. Conan's brain reeled with the punishment he was taking. His breath came in whistling gasps between his teeth. High above him he saw a great toadlike face, dimly limned in an eery glow that seemed to emanate from it.

From Robert E Howard's 'The Slithering Shadow'