title: Untamed Devotions: Stories of a Wild God
author:  Shane Allen Burton 
description: Shane is a gifted storyteller! His Untamed Devotions are engaging, often laughter inducing--and spiritually sobering. He has an ability to shine a light on gems of spiritual truth found almost hidden in the normalness of everyday life. You will enjoy the stories and be challenged by them!
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  # The Monster-God of Mamurth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### by Edmond Hamilton
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Out of the desert night he came to us, stumbling into our little
  
  
  circle of firelight and collapsing at once. Mitchell and I sprang to
  
  
  our feet with startled exclamations, for men who travel alone and on
  
  
  foot are a strange sight in the deserts of North Africa.
  
  
  For the first few minutes that we worked over him I thought he would
  
  
  die at once, but gradually we brought him back to consciousness. While
  
  
  Mitchell held a cup of water to his cracked lips I looked him over and
  
  
  saw that he was too far gone to live much longer. His clothes were in
  
  
  rags, and his hands and knees literally flayed, from crawling over the
  
  
  sands, I judged. So when he motioned feebly for more water, I gave it
  
  
  to him, knowing that in any case his time was short. Soon he could
  
  
  talk, in a dead, croaking voice.
  
  
  “I'm alone,” he