The Valley of the Worm
By Robert E. Howard
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"He fell through the air full upon the monster's back."
A stirring tale of a hideous monster from the elder world, that came in conflict with the yellow-haired sons of Aryan
I will tell you of Niord and the Worm. You have heard the tale before in many guises wherein the hero was named Tyr, or Perseus, or Siegfried, or Beowulf, or Saint George. But it was Niord who met the loathly demoniac thing that crawled hideously up from hell, and from which meeting sprang the cycle of hero-tales that revolves down the ages until the very substance of the truth is lost and passes into the limbo of all forgotten legends. I know whereof I speak, for I was Niord.
As I lie here awaiting death, which
