The Emerald Tablet

"The Emerald Tablet" is a short story by Robert M. Price that brings Richard L. Tierney's sword-and-sorcery character Simon of Gitta together with Clark Ashton Smith's elder entity Ubbo-Sathla.  The story first appeared in the August 2017 issue of Strange Sorcery (#24).
The Emerald Tablet is a genuine occult text from the Middle Ages, regarded by Islamic and European alchemists as the foundation of their art.Wikipedia, "Emerald Tablet."
==Synopsis==
Simon, driven by his pursuit of ancient wisdom, uses the powerful Emerald Tablet of Thoth to travel millions of years into the past, where he encounters Ubbo-Sathla, the primordial god responsible for the creation of all life on Earth. He finds that Ubbo-Sathla's domain includes a treacherous trap.
==Setting==
The story is set in the spring of 33 A.D.,Sorcery Against Caesar, "About 'The Emerald Tablet,'" by Robert M. Price (Pickman's Press, 2020). after the events of Tierney's novel The Drums of Chaos. Simon's mystic voyage starts from below the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
==Publication History==
After its initial appearance in  Strange Sorcery, "The Emerald Tablet" was reprinted in the anthology Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6 (Pulp Hero Press, 2020) and in the Simon of Gitta collection Sorcery Against Caesar (Pickman's Press, 2020).
==References==
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Robert M. Price works