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"[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Slithering_Shadow Xuthal of the Dusk]" (a.k.a. "[[The Slithering Shadow (Literature)|The Slithering Shadow]]") is a [[Conan the Barbarian]] story written by [[Robert E. Howard]]. First published in September, 1933.
 
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=== Tropes featured ===
* [[Bedsheet Ladder]]: Well, tapestries
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: When Thalis glomps on him before Natala, he's embarrassed
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Natala
* [[Diamonds in Thethe Buff]]: Conan stumbles on such a woman
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Armed only with a normal sword Conan inflicts so much damage on Thog that it retreats back to whereeverwherever it is that it lives when not stalking the halls of Xuthal.
** [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu]]: On the other hand Conan takes so much damage himself that he probably would have died if Natala hadn't given him a healing potion
* [[The Fatalist]]: In the city.
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* [[Hollywood Mirage]]: Conan fears that he sees this and not a refuge
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Thalis's society, in the [[Backstory]]
* [[ItsIt's a Small World After All]]: Conan is dropped on where Natala needs rescue
* [[Just in Time]]:
* [[Living Shadow]]: It slithers
* [[Look Behind You!]]: How Thalis escapes
* (([[Magitek}}]]: Xuthal's seems to run on it.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Thalis attempts it
* [[Not So Different]]: Is Thog so different from [[Human Sacrifice]]? (As if Conan's or Natala's people practiced it.)
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