Night-gaunt

Night-gaunts are a species of flying creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos, who first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. They inhabit Earth's Dreamlands and are described as having smooth whale-like skin, long slender humanoid bodies, curving horns, leather bat-like wings, and a blank expanse of flesh where one would expect a face to be.
They revere and worship Nodens as their lord and master.
==Trivia==
*The concept of night-gaunts first came to Lovecraft as a young child, in a series of recurring nightmares in which "they would whirl me through space at a sickening rate of speed, the while fretting & impelling me with their detestable tridents". Lovecraft credited the illustrations of Gustave Doré as inspiration for their appearance.
*A pair of night-gaunts are employed as supernatural muscle by the Silver Twilight Lodge in Peter J. Evans' novel Feeders from Within.
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