Hound (creature)

Little is known about the titular creature from the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Hound". It is not known whether the hound is one of a race of hounds or a unique mutation of another race, although the narrator links it to the Plateau of Leng. The beast appeared to have had a particular affinity for an ancient amulet buried with the body of a 15th century Dutch graverobber.
This creature appears like a giant winged hound or sphinx with a canine face, and is accompanied by a swarm of unusually large bats. The Necronomicon, by Abdul Alhazred, refers to it as the symbol of a corpse-eating cult from the Plateau of Leng in Central Asia, and as a "supernatural manifestation of the souls of those who vexed and gnawed at the dead".
The hound was first encountered by St. John and his companion in a graveyard in the Netherlands. After this first encounter, it apparently followed the pair all the way back to their native England, where it brutally killed St. John. (: "The Hound")
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