In a final battle which is said to be the origin of all later myths and half remembered stories of dragonslaying, Niord battles the white Worm to the death. In previous battlegrounds on the way they have seen the green slime which is The Worm's blood as well as warriors smashed to pulp by it, so it is clearly gargantuan. After killing a serpentine dinosaur blocking their way, Niord and his surviving band go down into the valley which is home to the ape-men and their cult worshipping The Worm. Niord leads a tribe of possibly Picts, and after several savage battles against other tribes encounters eerie piping, the sounds being made by ape-men musicians who are the slave-servants of a preternatural monstrosity - The Worm. Through undisclosed means, a modern day (1930s) man by the name of James Allison is recounting a race-memory of his ancestor Niord, and Niord's battle against a leftover of the Old Ones named The Worm. While it does not namecheck any specific Mythos entities or books, it features a monstrous and extremely powerful "cosmic horror" referred to as The Worm, a creature white squamous and gigantic monster that "looked somewhat more like a worm than it did an octopus, a serpent or a dinosaur." "The Valley of the Worm" is a short story by Robert E.
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