“Thereat panic seized him, so that he turned and ran down the defile as a man flees demons.”

-The Grey God Passes

Howard’s use of archaic English in pre-English settings seems odd, but in practice manages to evoke a sense of the old in the ear of the reader.

1. there•at

[T͟Herˈat]

ADVERB

1. archaic

formal

at that place.

2. on account of or after that.

thereat

(ˌðɛərˈæt)

adv

1. at that point or time

2. for that reason