“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
