title: The Gods of Xuma
author: David J. Lake
description: 1st Daw 279 1978 edition 1st printing paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
zlib_text: 
  
  
  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH
  
  
  There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and
  out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore
  the mighty city of Sarnath, but Sarnath stands there no more.
  
  
  
  
  
  It is told that in the immemorial years when the world was young, before ever
  the men of Sarnath came to the land of Mnar, another city stood beside the
  lake; the gray stone city of Ib, which was old as the lake itself, and peopled
  with beings not pleasing to behold. Very odd and ugly were these beings, as
  indeed are most beings of a world yet inchoate and rudely fashioned. It is
  written on the brick cylinders of Kadatheron that the beings of lb were in hue
  as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging
  eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice. It is
  also written that they descended one night from the moon in a mist; they and
  the vast still la