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A featureless red sphere hovers above a purple cone amid blue smoke in an imagined alien sanctuary.
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The God of Yekub

The god of Yekub is the hovering spherical deity seized by George Campbell near the end of The Challenge from Beyond. Initially ivory-colored and then red, it is worshipped as untouchable by the planet’s inhabitants. Robert E. Howard introduces its sanctuary and capture; Frank Belknap Long makes it speak, explain the failed alien occupation of Campbell’s body and transform Campbell into a benevolent ruler.

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