Hellhound

Overview

Filed under register ME-1928-H60/7893; cite `hellhound` in all outbound correspondence.

Field notes on Hellhound read like zoology until the specimen looks back and the notebook stops mid-sentence.

Taxonomists at Miskatonic classed Hellhound provisionally; the creature has not agreed to the classification.

New England incidents teach a rhythm: polite towns, old families, water or hills that smell wrong, then a paper trail ending in sanitariums. Hellhound may or may not follow that rhythm — check dates before you blame Cthulhu for a Vermont landslide.

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

Description

Sound, when recorded, has been described as wet leather, glass harmonics, or bees inside a skull; analysts note infrasound may explain some, not all.

Several accounts mention a pressure change before sighting, as though the air admitted something larger than the room.

Scale estimates in the files range from human to architectural, which usually means the observer was not the unit of measure.

Historical Record

A 1931 Miskatonic committee voted to suppress photography; the vote is on file, the plates are not.

A 1931 Miskatonic committee voted to suppress photography; the vote is on file, the plates are not.

Earliest stack mention is a photocopy of a photocopy of Latin marginalia — chain of custody unsuitable for court, sufficient for caution.

Field Observations

If dreams arrive with the weight of memory for places never visited, terminate contact.

Burn nothing found pulsing; catalogue first, then burn if protocol allows.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Archive Notes

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