Talk:Shoggoth/@comment-104.191.5.248-20150802022649/@comment-28655817-20160511011631

And, he was also great friends with the holy father of the Sword and Sorcery genre: one Robert E. Howard. Specifically, they did crossover stories. Howard wrote one in which Conan's predecessor made a dark pact with the Elder Gods themselves...and came to realize what he had done. Great stuff.