
Church of the Ghoul
Church of the Ghoul — a secret order; rites inferred from ledgers, baptisms, and disappearances. Register ME-1926-D77/1026.
Overview
Miskatonic seal ME-1926-D77/1026 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `church-of-the-ghoul`.
We would delete Church of the Ghoul if deletion worked; instead we classify, cross-link, and warn.
Zothique cult worshipping Mordiggian with masks and charnel rites.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1920s.
What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.
Description
Smith invented it; later writers export to Dreamlands necropolises.
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
Human priests sometimes join ghouls in communion.
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.
Cult Activity
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.
Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `church-of-the-ghoul` in all cross-references. Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.
Citation: Miskatonic Expedition Archive. Record ARC-000. Access subject to institutional review.
Related Records
Cross-References

ARC-000
activeMordiggian
Mordiggian — a Great Old One in the mythos index; cult traces and dream contagion documented under Miskatonic seal. Register ME-1932-R53/7544.

CR-020
activeGhouls
Tunnellers and Eaters of the Dead
Hunched, dog-faced denizens of the Dreamlands underworld and waking graveyards alike, who trade with ghouls and men when it suits them and who once carried a dreamer to the waking world from the court of the Great Ones.

ARC-000
activeZothique
Zothique — a mythos location; coordinates disputed, testimony consistent in mood. Register ME-1922-H30/5265.

CON-001
activeCosmic Horror
Philosophical Classification
Horror arising not from personal evil but from the insignificance of humanity before an indifferent, incomprehensible cosmos - the aesthetic that governs every file in this archive.
TOM-001
fragmentaryNecronomicon
Al Azif, Book of Dead Names
The most infamous grimoire of the mythos, an Arabic manuscript of rituals, histories, and formulae that erode the sanity of readers and have never been wholly suppressed, only scattered.
