Mother of Darkness

The Mother of Darkness was a tentacled monster that lurked in the tunnels beneath the royal palace in the Turanian city of Aghrapur until it was killed by Conan. It guarded the king's treasure vault, and prisoners were fed to it by temple priests as a sacrifice. In addition to a bloated body and a great mass of writhing tentacles emerging from its head, the monster had a gaping fanged mouth and a huge single eye.