The black stone

A marvelous rendition of the short story “The Black Stone” by Conan author Robert E. Howard.
The reader does an excellent job of conveying the horror created by the author. It is a brooding tale of suggested horrors finally realized on midsummer’s night.
Historically placed a solid tale that falls in with the best of the Lovecraftian lore. “The Black Stone” was first published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It can also be found in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos published in the late ’60s.

A young man reads an ancient tome called “Nameless Cults” and discovers in it references to an artifact called “The Black Stone”. Worshipped and abhorred, the stone grabs the man’s attention and he delves deeply into its’ mysterious history, until he finds that it truely exists and so embarks on a trip to visit the stone, where he discovers the dark and horrifying truth.