The Unnamable (creature)

An unnamed, unidentified monster featured in H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Unnamable".
==Description==
An unnamable thing attacked Randolph Carter and Joel Manton in a graveyard in Arkham in the 1920s. Both men were later found with several cuts and wounds, including a mark on Carter that had been clearly made by a split hoof. Carter didn't catch sight of the entity, and could only describe it as being of "titanic size but undetermined nature". Manton, on the other hand, described it as a fluid, gelatinous thing with "a thousand shapes". Its presence is signaled by an unpleasant stench and frigid air, and it produces a shrieking sound.
While the origin of the monster is not known, Carter is aware of local legends dating back to the 17th century, when Cotton Mather documented the birth of a monstrous child he described as "more than beast but less than man", with "a blemished eye" like its mother, who was hanged for giving birth to it. According to Manton, the thing that attacked Carter and him had eyes "and a blemish".
While Mather's book doesn't mention what became of the creature, rumours claim that it was locked up in the attic of a house that belonged to a childless man, until his death in 1710, after which the neighbors continued to hear noises coming from the house, but never dared to unlock the attic door. Apparently, the monster escaped, as it was later sighted at the parsonage and killed several people, tearing their bodies apart.
The people of Arkham have feared the monster for generations, telling "furtive tales of things with a blemished eye seen at windows in the night or in deserted meadows near the woods". In 1793, a boy ventured into the abandoned house and went mad. Most notably, an ancestor of Carter once encountered this beast and was left with scars on their chest and back that seemed to have been made by horns and claws. After the attack, the footprints found on the locale were of "split hooves and vaguely anthropoid paws".
Before Carter and Manton were attacked by the monster, Carter had already investigated the house and found the bones that presumably belonged to the original thing, including a skull with four-inch horns and a vaguely humanoid face and jaw. The presence of this skull suggests that there might have been more than one creature, although Carter has also speculated that the gelatinous thing that attacked him could have been a "psychic emanation" cast by the original being, from beyond the grave. (: "The Unnamable")
Category:Characters Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
Category:Other Supernatural Beings