"Older than this world, old, in fact, when Atlantis and Lemuria sank into the sea, bequest of the Atlantean Kull, king of Valusia: that is the jewel that adorns the crown of Bran Mak Morn, king of the Picts of Caledonia.
He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth, a race of creatures who Bran Mak Morn's ancestors had banished from the surface of the earth…
First appeared in Weird Tales, November 1932.
It was originally published in the magazine Weird Tales in November 1932, then again in 1975 in a collection of Howard's short stories, Worms of the Earth.
The story features one of Howard's recurring protagonists, Bran Mak Morn, a fictional King of the Picts.Bran Mak Morn, King of the Picts, vows revenge on the Roman governor Titus Sulla after witnessing the crucifixion of a fellow Pict.
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He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth, a race of creatures who were once men but after generations of living underground have become monstrous and semi-reptilian.
However, Sulla's mind is broken from his contact with the horrific Worms of the Earth and Bran Mak Morn slays him in mercy rather than vengeance, realising that some weapons are too foul to use, even against Rome.
He seeks forbidden aid from the Worms of the Earth, a race of creatures who Bran Mak Morn's pictish ancestors had banished from the earth.