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"The Abomination of Desolation" (or "The Desolation of Soom") is a prose poem by American author Clark Ashton Smith. It was first published in the November 1938 issue of Fantasmagoria.

Publication history
According to Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography (1978) by Donald Sidney-Fryer, "The Abominations of Desolation" was first published in the November 1938 issue of Fantasmagoria. It was included in Poems in Prose (1965) and Hyperborea (1971) as "The Desolation of Soom".

Plot
The desert of Soom lies at the world's extreme. There are many stories about a monster that lurks there. Two lovers trespass on the desert. However, they had not heard the stories hence remain untroubled.