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Weird Tales

A Witch Shall Be Born

By ROBERT E. HOWARD

A vivid weird novelette of uncanny power and fascinating episodes — a tale of the old, forgotten times

I. The Blood-Red Crescent

TARAMIS, Queen of Khauran, awakened from a dream-haunted slumber to a silence that seemed more like the stillness of nighted catacombs than the normal quiet of a sleeping palace. She lay staring into the darkness, wondering why the candles in their golden candelabra had gone out. A flecking of stars marked a gold-barred casement that lent no illumination to the interior of the chamber. But as Taramis

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