Clark Ashton Smith makes me very thanksful for electronic readers; I've never read anything by him that didn't include at least one word I'd never encountered before. He is, of course, the author that inspired X2: Castle Amber, a fun-house dungeon much beloved by many grognards.
As a glossary of words gamers might find useful, I begin with his short story "A Vintage From Atlantis":
I turned giddy; and a sort of dark confusion possessed my senses by degrees; and I seemed to hear and see and feel as in the, mounting fever of calenture.
According to Miriam-Webster, calenture is "a fever formerly supposed to affect sailors in the tropics."
While you could use this as part of the name of a spell or a plague ravaging the Isle of Dread, I think it might also make an excellent name for a succubus or night hag.
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