Ghast
Ghast — a species or servitor line; field taxonomy provisional, behaviour not. Register ME-1926-X55/7595.
Overview
Miskatonic seal ME-1926-X55/7595 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `ghast`.
Field notes on Ghast read like zoology until the specimen looks back and the notebook stops mid-sentence.
Bipedal, noseless horrors beneath the Dreamlands that hunt ghouls.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1930s.
What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.
Description
Pack hunters with hooves; ghouls fear their tunnels near Dylath-Leen.
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
Lovecraft placed them under primordial vaults in 'The Dream-Quest'.
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.
Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.
Archive Notes
Cite archive slug `ghast` 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.
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Cross-References
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.
LOC-011
activeDylath-Leen
Port of Dark Merchants
A great stone city on the Dreamlands coast where black galleys trade things that should not change hands, and where the smoke of incense hides the face of the moon-beasts' agents.
STY-106
activeThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Oneiric Expedition - 1926–1927
Randolph Carter crosses the Dreamlands toward Kadath-on-the-Cold-Waste - through zoogs, ghouls, night-gaunts, and the gods who hide the sunset city he cannot name awake.
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.