The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
In H. P. Lovecraft's 1926 novella "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", Nodens is an "archaic" god served by the nightgaunts. He is depicted as somewhat benevolent and as opposing the frightening Nyarlathotep. Nodens appears again in Lovecraft's short story "The Strange High House in the Mist", also written in 1926, which mentions "...the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss.”