Bholes

Bholes are colossal worm-like entities with scraped rock-like hides and gaping mouths full of drill-like teeth. They only appear under conditions of absolute darkness, in which they cannot normally be seen, so typically the only way to become acquainted with their appearance is through the discovery of the occasional dead specimen. They dwell in the Underworld, burrowing in the Vale of Pnath. Bholes are mind-numbingly large: hundreds or even thousands of feet long, weighing as much as battleships.
Bholes are related to dholes. Some say that bholes are a subspecies of dhole, or that the bholes give birth to the dholes and then send them through wormholes to other worlds. According to Daniel Harms' Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, the word originally appeared as "dholes", but S. T. Joshi's corrected versions of Lovecraft's texts show that the word is "bholes". It seems that one of the creators of the Dreamlands sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu read a corrected version of "Dream-Quest" and thought that "bholes" were a new creature, thus leading to the creation of two different creatures.
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