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The Black Stone

Shortly a giant toad-like monster appears at the top of the stone and a second sacrifice, a young girl, is offered to it.

The Master of the Monolith

...and I read, too, of the lost, grim black cavern high in the hills where the horrified Turks hemmed a monstrous, bloated, wallowing toad-like being and slew it with flame and ancient steel blessed in old times by Muhammad, and with incantations that were old when Arabia was young.

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