A Kull-Inspired Poem...from 1952

[bobbyderie]

This was published in The Bulletin, Anaheim, California, Wed, Nov 19, 1952 · Page 4. The author is R. Louis Scott (also as Robert L. Scott), who began "Songs of the Sonneteer" as a weekly column, taking occasional inspiration from other works, including Talbot Mundy - and in this sequel instance, Robert E. Howard. The poem spins off from a line in "The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune" where REH wrote:

Man was not, yet man was the dream of the gods, and strange were the nightmare forms that glided through the noisome jungles. Battle and onslaught were there, and frightful love. Death was there, for Life and Death go hand in hand. Across the slimy beaches of the world sounded the bellowing of the monsters, and incredible shapes loomed through the streaming curtain of the incessant rain.