Doel

Doels are a fictional species from another dimension created by Frank Belknap Long.
In Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside, Long describes the Doels as tiny, flesh-devouring creatures "who inhabit an alien dimension shrouded in night and chaos".
It's been speculated that they might be the same as the Space Eaters.
==In the Mythos==
Halpin Chalmers made contact with the Doels at some point after consuming the Liao drug, and has seen "their maker" in dreams. He later mentions the Doels and the Satyrs as creatures that might help the Hounds of Tindalos break into his room. (: "The Hounds of Tindalos")
Albert Wilmarth learned about the Doels and the Hounds of Tindalos from a creature masquerading as Henry Wentworth Akeley. (: The Whisperer in Darkness)
==Behind the Mythos==
It's possible that the Doels might be related to, or synonymous with, the Dôls mentioned in "The White People", by Arthur Machen.
The Doel Chants mentioned in Robert Bloch's "The Mannikin" might be the same as the Dhôl Chants mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Horror in the Museum".
The name is also evocative of the Dholes, which are massive predators that inhabit Yaddith and the Dreamlands in Lovecraft's fiction.
Category:Species Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Extra-Dimensional Species