A goose-flesh story of the horror that was consummated in the dark temple of the god Tsathoggua

A horrific story of an incredible monster that struck a city with panic terror—as told by the state executioner

ne of Clark Ashton Smith's best fantasy stories from Weird Tales, "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" chronicles the strange doom of Avoosl Wuthoqquan, greedy money-lender. Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt.

Evagh the warlock, dwelling beside the boreal sea, was aware of many strange and untimely portents in mid-summer. Frorely burned the sun above Mhu Thulan from a welkin clear and wannish as ice. At eve the aurora was hung from zenith to earth, like an arras in a high chamber of gods. Wan and rare were the poppies and small the anemones in the cliff-sequestered vales lying behind the house of Evagh; and the fruits in his walled garden were pale of rind and green at the core. Also, he beheld by day the unseasonable flight of great multitudes of fowl, going southward from the hidden isles beyond Mhu Thulan; and by night he heard the distressful clamor of other passing multitudes. And always, in the loud wind and crying surf, he harkened to the weird whisper of voices from realms of perennial winter...