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Bloodstones and Ebony

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Fantastical
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I knelt in a great cavern before an altar which sent up in everlastingspirals a slender serpent of white smoke. Behind this altar brooded a vastand intangible Shape in the fragrant gloom, like a black tower seenthrough the mists of sleep. No reflection thereof waved back from the

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Publication appearances

Etchings in Ivory: Poems in ProseGlenn Lord1968↗Etchings in Ivory: Poems in ProseHall Publications1975↗The Book of Robert E. HowardZebraFebruary 1976 (First edition) February 1976 (Second edition)↗The Book of Robert E. HowardBerkleyFebruary 1980↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. HowardREH Foundation PressJanuary 2009↗The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗