Abhoth

Overview

Expedition register ME-1935-C65/4907 — cross-index under slug `abhoth`.

Abhoth sits beyond the taxonomy that comforted Victorian naturalists — not a beast to shoot, but a law of ruin wearing a name.

Clark Ashton Smith's 'Source of Uncleanliness' in caverns beneath Mount Voormithadreth.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Description

A grey, festering mass that spawns monsters and reabsorbs them in endless cycles.

Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.

Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.

Historical Record

Hyperborean wizards fled its pit; later mythos maps place it under Voormithadreth.

Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.

Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.

Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.

What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `abhoth` in all cross-references. What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.