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 Physical Description: Perhaps the oldest extant text on the planet, exceedingly rare and regarded as fable or legend; is pages are leaves of unidentifiable, well-nigh indestructible pliant metal, its covers are plates of an equally unknown greenish mineral.
-General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to [[Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
+General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to the [[Plateau of Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
 Number of known copies (if rare): exceedingly rare, perhaps unique on Earth
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 Physical Description: A grease-proof parcel of five old books in German.
-General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to [[Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
+General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to the [[Plateau of Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
 Number of known copies (if rare): unique
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 Physical Description: a set of five hastily- and crudely-published antique books in poorly-translated, rambling English
-General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to [[Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
+General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to the [[Plateau of Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
 Number of known copies (if rare): A handful of copies were privately published, most have since been destroyed or have vanished.
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 Physical Description: a single condensed volume in edited and improved English
-General Content: Expurgated reprint; contains a condensed version of the original's [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, with emphasis on [[Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], and [[Atlantis]], and murky references to [[Lemurian]]s and [[Tcho-Tcho]]s.
+General Content: Expurgated reprint; contains a condensed version of the original's [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, with emphasis on the [[Plateau of Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], and [[Atlantis]], and murky references to [[Lemurian]]s and [[Tcho-Tcho]]s.
 Number of known copies (if rare): uncommon
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-...That dread chronicle, the ''Ghorl Nigral'', whose ultra-telluric origin is the secret of one of the most horrible of the dark myths locked within the dim pages of the ''Book of Eibon''.  There it is called ''The Book of the Night'', and it is told that the clawed, snouted, non-human wizard [[Zbauka]], on a world called [[Yaddith]] of the Five Moons, thieved it from the monstrous [[Dhole]]s.  [[Von Junzt]] records of this ''Ghorl Nigral'' that only one copy as ever been brought down to this planet from frightful [[Yaddith]] in all the immeasurable ages of Earth's existence in this part of space.  The single copy is hidden somewhere in the black depths of Asia, at a place called "[[Yian-Ho]]"; there the book is whispered in a thousand legends as "the hidden legacy of aeon-old [[Leng]]." ...Gottfried Mulder [was] a scientist who accompanied [[Von Junzt]] in his travels, and who contributed a forward to the ''[[Unasusprechlichen Kulten]]''.... This same Mulder, long after the death of von Junzt [who had managed to consult the book,] attempted a written reconstruction of what he remembered [[Von Junzt]] telling him about the contents of this mysterious book using Mesmerism and self-hypnosis to obtain perfect recall.  His book, ''The Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the "Ghorl Nigral", was published at Mulder's own expense in Leipzig in 1847; copies are exceptionally rare, for the authorities seized and burned almost the entire printing, and Mulder himself narrowly escaped hanging by fleeing to Metzengerstein, where he died in a madhouse eleven years later.
+...That dread chronicle, the ''Ghorl Nigral'', whose ultra-telluric origin is the secret of one of the most horrible of the dark myths locked within the dim pages of the ''Book of Eibon''.  There it is called ''The Book of the Night'', and it is told that the clawed, snouted, non-human wizard [[Zbauka]], on a world called [[Yaddith]] of the Five Moons, thieved it from the monstrous [[Dhole]]s.  [[Von Junzt]] records of this ''Ghorl Nigral'' that only one copy as ever been brought down to this planet from frightful [[Yaddith]] in all the immeasurable ages of Earth's existence in this part of space.  The single copy is hidden somewhere in the black depths of Asia, at a place called "[[Yian-Ho]]"; there the book is whispered in a thousand legends as "the hidden legacy of aeon-old [[Plateau of Leng|Leng]]." ...Gottfried Mulder [was] a scientist who accompanied [[Von Junzt]] in his travels, and who contributed a forward to the ''[[Unasusprechlichen Kulten]]''.... This same Mulder, long after the death of von Junzt [who had managed to consult the book,] attempted a written reconstruction of what he remembered [[Von Junzt]] telling him about the contents of this mysterious book using Mesmerism and self-hypnosis to obtain perfect recall.  His book, ''The Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the "Ghorl Nigral", was published at Mulder's own expense in Leipzig in 1847; copies are exceptionally rare, for the authorities seized and burned almost the entire printing, and Mulder himself narrowly escaped hanging by fleeing to Metzengerstein, where he died in a madhouse eleven years later.
 <br> - [[Lin Carter]], "Zoth-Ommog"

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-===Die Geheimnisse von Asien, mit Kommentar von Ghorl Nigral Ghorl Nigral (1847, Leipzig) ===
+===Die Geheimnisse von Asien, mit Kommentar von Ghorl Nigral (1847, Leipzig) ===
 Language: German ("Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the ''Ghorl Nigral''")
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 * Mythos Knowledge: Minimal
 * Occult Knowledge: Low
 ===Ghorl Nigral, Expurgated Golden Goblin Edition (1909)===

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 '''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:  may contain spells relating to shape-shifting, transformations of flesh, etc.
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 Spells:  may contain spells relating to shape-shifting, transformations of flesh, etc.
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 Spells:  Contains no usable spells.
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): One copy, said to have been once held in a secret library by the [[Monks of Yahlgan]], and stolen by translator [[Herrmann Mulder]], is known to have been in the possession of Baron [[Von Junzt|Friedrich Wilhelm Von Junzt]] and [[Comte d'Erlette]] for a short time, under the close watchful eye of Mulder; this book was in Mulder's possession until he was forced to flee Germany to [[Arkham]]; it is believed to have been stolen by [[Von Junzt]] and/or [[Comte d'Erlette]] and has since vanished, rumoured to have fallen into the hands of [[Ghoul]]s.
-====Mythos Content====
+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:  may contain spells relating to shape-shifting, transformations of flesh, etc.
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): One copy, which accompanied its translator Mulder to [[Arkham]], where Mulder had it translated into English and republished; this edition was last seen in the rare books collection of the [[Orne Library|library of the Miskatonic University]], where it vanished from public view by the 1930s, perhaps lost.
-====Mythos Content====
+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:  may contain spells relating to shape-shifting, transformations of flesh, etc.
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): Occasional copies have surfaced in private hands and in occult libraries.
-====Mythos Content====
+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:  may contain spells relating to shape-shifting, transformations of flesh, etc.
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): Copies routinely surface in private hands and in occult libraries.
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+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:  Contains no usable spells.
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): Will sometimes appear in the possession of private occultists and occult libraries.
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+'''Mythos Content'''
 Spells:  contains no working spells
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 Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): Occasional copies have surfaced in private hands and in occult libraries.
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 Spells:  Contains no usable spells.

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 ==Description==
 <blockquote>
-"…Indeed, a glance at the hieroglyphs by any reader of [[Von Juntz|von Junzt]]'s horrible ''[[Nameless Cults]]'' would have established a linkage of unmistakable significance.... At this period, however, the readers of that monstrous blasphemy were exceedingly few; copies having been incredibly scarce in the interval between the suppression of the original Dusseldorf edition (1839) and of the Bridewell translation (1845) and the publication of the expurgated reprint by the Golden Goblin Press in 1909."
+"…Indeed, a glance at the hieroglyphs by any reader of [[Von Junzt|Von Junzt]]'s horrible ''[[Nameless Cults]]'' would have established a linkage of unmistakable significance.... At this period, however, the readers of that monstrous blasphemy were exceedingly few; copies having been incredibly scarce in the interval between the suppression of the original Dusseldorf edition (1839) and of the Bridewell translation (1845) and the publication of the expurgated reprint by the Golden Goblin Press in 1909."
 <br>– H.P. Lovecraft, "Out of the Aeons"
 </blockquote>
-Perhaps one of the oldest surviving books on earth, exceedingly rare and regarded as a figment of fable or legend by those who know it only by rumor or allusion; the ''Ghorl Nigral'', with a reputation as "the most awful book ever written" and "the oldest book on Earth", was by some accounts dictated by Nyarlathotep to Zakuba, an inhuman ("pig-snouted and clawed") High Priest of [[Yaddith]] of the Five Moons, for the purpose of enlightening the [[Dholes]]; Zakuba fled instead with it to ancient earthly [[Mu]], sharing its knowledge with the priests of that doomed continent.
+Perhaps one of the oldest surviving books on earth, exceedingly rare and regarded as a figment of fable or legend by those who know it only by rumor or allusion; the ''Ghorl Nigral'', with a reputation as "the most awful book ever written" and "the oldest book on Earth", was by some accounts dictated by Nyarlathotep to [[Zbauka]], an inhuman ("pig-snouted and clawed") High Priest of [[Yaddith]] of the Five Moons, for the purpose of enlightening the [[Dholes]]; [[Zbauka]] fled instead with it to ancient earthly [[Mu]], sharing its knowledge with the priests of that doomed continent.
 The book would find its way into the hands of a terrible and ancient cult, the [[Monks of Yahlgan]], who preserved it in a secret occult library in [[Yian-Ho]] in the mountains of darkest Asia for aeons.  [[Herrmann Mulder]] would come into contact with it there after insinuating himself into the cult as the first European member; Mulder would learn the tome's [[Naacal]] language from the monks, and then steal the tome, fleeing with it from its Asian library first to Prussia with the monks giving chase close behind him until their pursuit abruptly ended (allegedly following a human sacrifice and terrible spell performed by Mulder), and then to Arkham after word reached Mulder that the monks had at last found his trail again in Germany.
-It would be in Germany in the early- to mid-1800s, that the text appears to have served among the source material for ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'' and ''[[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]]'', whose authors came into contact with it via the tome's translator, [[Herrmann Mulder]] after they successfully convinced Mulder to share its content with them through flattery and, apparently, through the use of magick to persuade the translator to reveal its secrets.  Mulder would produce an English translation before D'Erlette and/or Von Juntz stole the original tome from Mulder in the confusion of his flight from Germany.
+It would be in Germany in the early- to mid-1800s, that the text appears to have served among the source material for ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'' and ''[[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]]'', whose authors came into contact with it via the tome's translator, [[Herrmann Mulder]] after they successfully convinced Mulder's son Gottfried to introduce them to the translator and reveal its content with them through flattery and, apparently, through the use of magick to persuade the translator to reveal its secrets.  Mulder would produce an English translation before D'Erlette and/or Von Junzt stole the original tome from Mulder in the confusion of his flight from Germany.
 Mulder's descendants would produce a few heavily expurgated editions of the text in the years after Mulder's mysterious death, mainly to fill the demands for information on Eastern Mysticism that developed through the Spiritualism era of late 1800s into the Theosophy era of the early 20th Century.  Notable among these would be an expurgated edition, and a Commentary by Gottfried Mulder, who wrote his book with content remembered from his brief glances at his father's tome recalled through self-hypnosis, before his arrest and confinement until death in a madhouse in Metzengerstein.
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 General Content: Contains [[Thurian Age]] historical and geographical knowledge, and advanced and perhaps alien scientific, mechanical, and surgical information, with references to [[Leng]], [[Mu]], [[Lemuria]], [[Atlantis]], the [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Lemurian]]s, and [[Ghoul]]s.
-Number of known copies (if rare): exceedingly rare, perhaps unique
+Number of known copies (if rare): exceedingly rare, perhaps unique on Earth
-Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): One copy, said to have been once held in a secret library by the [[Monks of Yahlgan]], and stolen by translator [[Herrmann Mulder]], is known to have been in the possession of Baron [[Von Juntz|Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt]] and [[Comte d'Erlette]] for a short time, under the close watchful eye of Mulder; this book accompanied Mulder to [[Arkham]] and has since vanished, and may be in the hands of [[Ghoul]]s.
+Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): One copy, said to have been once held in a secret library by the [[Monks of Yahlgan]], and stolen by translator [[Herrmann Mulder]], is known to have been in the possession of Baron [[Von Junzt|Friedrich Wilhelm Von Junzt]] and [[Comte d'Erlette]] for a short time, under the close watchful eye of Mulder; this book was in Mulder's possession until he was forced to flee Germany to [[Arkham]]; it is believed to have been stolen by [[Von Junzt]] and/or [[Comte d'Erlette]] and has since vanished, rumoured to have fallen into the hands of [[Ghoul]]s.
 ====Mythos Content====
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 Number of known copies (if rare): unique
-Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): One copy, which accompanied its translator Mulder to [[Arkham]], where Mulder had it translated into English and republished; this edition has since vanished, and may be in the hands of [[Ghoul]]s.
+Last known location of surviving copies (if rare): One copy, which accompanied its translator Mulder to [[Arkham]], where Mulder had it translated into English and republished; this edition was last seen in the rare books collection of the [[Orne Library|library of the Miskatonic University]], where it vanished from public view by the 1930s, perhaps lost.
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 It was many years ago in Arkham - at the [[Orne Library|library of the Miskatonic University]].  I was in a shadowy corner of the great reading-room, and noted a huge volume in somebody's hands across the table from me.  The reader's head was completely hidden by the massive tome, but on the book itself I could descry the words "Ghorl Nigral" in an archaic Gothic lettering.  What I knew of it made me shudder - and I felt vaguely alarmed when others began glancing at the silent reader and quietly edging out of the room one by one.  When I saw that I was wholly alone but for the unspeaking page-turner, my feeling of disquiet became almost overpowering - and I too edged toward the door keeping my eyes resolutely away from the reader for some unknown reason or other.  Then I saw that the room was growing very dark, though the afternoon was by no means spent.  I stumbled over a chair, and gave vent to a wholly involuntary cry - but heard no answering sound.  At this point came a horrible glare of lightning and a deafening stroke of thunder, though those outside the building observed no sign of storm.  Attendants were running in, and someone brought a candle after the lights were found out of commission.  The man who had been reading was dead, and his face was not pleasant to contemplate.  He had a queerly foreign look, and his hair and bear seemed to adhere in unhealthy patches.  The book, from which all eyes were sedulously averted, was tightly clasped in the brown, bony hands - and the attendants seemed slow in trying to dislodge it.  When at length they did so, they encountered something very singular.  For the hands, instead of releasing the book, came irregularly off at the wrists amid a cloud of red dust - whilst the body, pulled forward by the attempt, collapsed suddenly to a powder, leaving only a heap of greenishly mouldering clothes in the chair.  Those clothes were later identified as belonging to a ma buried 30 years before - whose tomb in [[Christchurch Cemetery]] was found to be empty.  Never since that day has the ''Ghorl Nigral'' been taken from its locked vault in the library basement.
 <br> - [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in a letter to [[Willis Conover]]
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-It was many years ago in Arkham - at the library of the Miskatonic University.  I was in a shadowy corner of the great reading-room, and noted a huge volume in somebody's hands across the table from me.  The reader's head was completely hidden by the massive tome, but on the book itself I could descry the words "Ghorl Nigral" in an archaic Gothic lettering.  What I knew of it made me shudder - and I felt vaguely alarmed when others began glancing at the silent reader and quietly edging out of the room one by one.  When I saw that I was wholly alone but for the unspeaking page-turner, my feeling of disquiet became almost overpowering - and I too edged toward the door keeping my eyes resolutely away from the reader for some unknown reason or other.  Then I saw that the room was growing very dark, though the afternoon was by no means spent.  I stumbled over a chair, and gave vent to a wholly involuntary cry - but heard no answering sound.  At this point came a horrible glare of lightning and a deafening stroke of thunder, though those outside the building observed no sign of storm.  Attendants were running in, and someone brought a candle after the lights were found out of commission.  The man who had been reading was dead, and his face was not pleasant to contemplate.  He had a queerly foreign look, and his hair and bear seemed to adhere in unhealthy patches.  The book, from which all eyes were sedulously averted, was tightly clasped in the brown, bony hands - and the attendants seemed slow in trying to dislodge it.  When at length they did so, they encountered something very singular.  For the hands, instead of releasing the book, came irregularly off at the wrists amid a cloud of red dust - whilst the body, pulled forward by the attempt, collapsed suddenly to a powder, leaving only a heap of greenishly mouldering clothes in the chair.  Those clothes were later identified as belonging to a ma buried 30 years before - whose tomb in [[Christchurch]] Cemetery was found to be empty.  Never since that day has the ''Ghorl Nigral'' been taken from its locked vault in the library basement.
+It was many years ago in Arkham - at the library of the Miskatonic University.  I was in a shadowy corner of the great reading-room, and noted a huge volume in somebody's hands across the table from me.  The reader's head was completely hidden by the massive tome, but on the book itself I could descry the words "Ghorl Nigral" in an archaic Gothic lettering.  What I knew of it made me shudder - and I felt vaguely alarmed when others began glancing at the silent reader and quietly edging out of the room one by one.  When I saw that I was wholly alone but for the unspeaking page-turner, my feeling of disquiet became almost overpowering - and I too edged toward the door keeping my eyes resolutely away from the reader for some unknown reason or other.  Then I saw that the room was growing very dark, though the afternoon was by no means spent.  I stumbled over a chair, and gave vent to a wholly involuntary cry - but heard no answering sound.  At this point came a horrible glare of lightning and a deafening stroke of thunder, though those outside the building observed no sign of storm.  Attendants were running in, and someone brought a candle after the lights were found out of commission.  The man who had been reading was dead, and his face was not pleasant to contemplate.  He had a queerly foreign look, and his hair and bear seemed to adhere in unhealthy patches.  The book, from which all eyes were sedulously averted, was tightly clasped in the brown, bony hands - and the attendants seemed slow in trying to dislodge it.  When at length they did so, they encountered something very singular.  For the hands, instead of releasing the book, came irregularly off at the wrists amid a cloud of red dust - whilst the body, pulled forward by the attempt, collapsed suddenly to a powder, leaving only a heap of greenishly mouldering clothes in the chair.  Those clothes were later identified as belonging to a ma buried 30 years before - whose tomb in [[Christchurch Cemetery]] was found to be empty.  Never since that day has the ''Ghorl Nigral'' been taken from its locked vault in the library basement.
 <br> - [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in a letter to [[Willis Conover]]
 </blockquote>

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−	Origin: The ''Ghorl Nigral'' was invented by Lovecraft correspondent [[Willis Conover]] in one of his letters to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], and "The Horror in the Gallery" (AKA "Zoth-Ommog") is the first direct literary appearance, with additional indirect detail supplied by [[Robert E. Howard]] in books concerning [[Erlik]]; a variant, ''Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the Ghorl Nigral'' is a creation of [[Lin Carter]].	+	Origin: The ''Ghorl Nigral'' was invented by Lovecraft correspondent [[Willis Conover]] in one of his letters to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], and "The Horror in the Gallery" (AKA "Zoth-Ommog") is the first direct literary appearance, with additional indirect detail supplied by [[Robert E. Howard]] in books concerning [[Nyarlathotep\|Erlik]]; a variant, ''Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the Ghorl Nigral'' is a creation of [[Lin Carter]].

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 Title:  ''Ghörl Nigral'', AKA ''The Book of Night'', ''The Hidden Legacy of Ancient Leng''
-Origin:  The ''Ghorl Nigral'' was invented by Lovecraft correspondent [[Willis Conover]] in one of his letters to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], with additional detail supplied by Lovecraft and [[Robert E. Howard]]; ''Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the Ghorl Nigral'' is a creation of [[Lin Carter]].
+Origin:  The ''Ghorl Nigral'' was invented by Lovecraft correspondent [[Willis Conover]] in one of his letters to [[H.P. Lovecraft]], and "The Horror in the Gallery" (AKA "Zoth-Ommog") is the first direct literary appearance, with additional indirect detail supplied by [[Robert E. Howard]] in books concerning [[Erlik]]; a variant, ''Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the Ghorl Nigral'' is a creation of [[Lin Carter]].
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 ** [[Robert E. Howard]], "The Daughter of Erlik Khan"
 ** [[Lin Carter]], "The Thing in the Pit"
-** [[Lin Carter]], "Zoth-Ommog"
+** [[Lin Carter]], "The Horror in the Gallery" (AKA "Zoth-Ommog")
 ** [[Brian Lumley]], "The Statement of One John Gibson"