"There were vast ungodly tombs where slimy monsters dreamed, 
There were clouds like blood-drenched plumes where unborn demons screamed. 
There were ages dead to Time, and lands lost out of Space; 
There were adders in the slime, and a dim unholy Face. 
"Oh, the heart in my breast turned stone, and the brain froze in my skull- 
But I won through, I alone, and I poured my chalice full 
Of horrors and dooms and spells, black buds and bitter roots- 
From the hells beneath the hells, I bring you my deathly fruits." 
- R.E.Howard