Hound of Tindalos
Hound of Tindalos — a species or servitor line; field taxonomy provisional, behaviour not. Register ME-1926-Z28/8741.
Overview
Miskatonic seal ME-1926-Z28/8741 binds this packet; duplicate citations must use slug `hound-of-tindalos`.
Hound of Tindalos is indexed as species or servitor because bullets sometimes delay it; do not mistake delay for mastery.
Frank Belknap Long's angular predators that hunt through time's corners.
Period attestation: lovecraft-1930s.
What sleeps is not dead; what is catalogued here may be doing neither.
Description
They enter where walls meet at less than ninety degrees; victims smell of mildew.
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
Associated with powder of Ibn Ghazi and journeys beyond linear time.
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 `hound-of-tindalos` 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
CON-002
activeForbidden Knowledge
Epistemic Hazard
Information whose acquisition damages the seeker - truths the mind evolved specifically not to accommodate, and that no degree of education prepares one to survive.
CON-003
activeMadness
Cognitive Collapse
The frequent terminus of contact with the mythos - not always dysfunction, but sometimes expanded perception mortals cannot sustain, and sometimes the only sane response to an insane cosmos.
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.