Basatan

Overview

Expedition register ME-1935-Y87/5257 — cross-index under slug `basatan`.

We catalogue Basatan because silence failed: too many unrelated witnesses described the same wrong geometry after the same sleepless week.

Ramsey Campbell's goat-spider god of the Severn Valley, master of the gargoyle-like mi-go substitutes.

Period attestation: post-lovecraft.

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

Description

Worshipped on rooftops; victims fall upward into its clutch on moonless nights.

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

Often confused with Shub-Niggurath's beast-forms; Campbell's text keeps Basatan local.

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