"The Light from the Pole"

by Lin Carter
originally published Weird Tales #1, Zebra 1980

Pharazyyn, yet another Hyperborean sorceror starts to experience pretty much everything Evagh (his buddy) did in "The Coming of the White Worm".  Various bits of mystic investigation reveal that Rlim Shaikorth was only the hearld and harbinger of Aphoom Zah, an even worse entity.  Discovering there is no escape from his fate of being taken by Aphoom Zah, Pharazyn offs himself.

This little tale is little more than a blatant and shameless rehash of Smith's "Coming of the White Worm", only with less imagination.  

Of course, there's a reason for this - Carter took a fragment of an earlier draft Smith wrote for "Coming", finished it and published it as a "posthumous collaboration".  

I know Carter needed material to fill up the pages of his Weird Tales revival, but this is pretty sad.