Sea Ghoul

Overview

Expedition register ME-1936-X13/5787 — cross-index under slug `sea-ghoul`.

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

Taxonomists at Miskatonic classed Sea Ghoul 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. Sea Ghoul 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

Those who survived description speak of surfaces that refuse matte finish — wet, reflective, or oily even in dry rooms.

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

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

Historical Record

Activity increased after the Innsmouth embargo and the Antarctic expedition, as if publicity taught the countryside new vocabulary for old fears.

European parallels appear in Smith and Howard overlaps; do not merge pantheons without reading both authors in full.

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