Bholes

Creatures of earth's dreamlands, and also of an ancient planet called Yaddith.

In the dreamland, the bholes crawl and creep nastily in in terrible valleys guarded by the fabled Peaks of Thok. Randolph Carter encountered one of them there in the Vale of Pnath. [HPL Kadath (online text)]

Their size is enormous, at least fifteen or twenty feet in height, and of unknown length. In the dreamland, no one has ever seen one, or even guessed what it might look like. Bholes are known only from the rustling they make amongst mountains of bones and the slimy touch they have when they wriggle past one. They cannot be seen because they creep only in the dark. [Kadath].

The night-gaunts planned to feed the conquered moon-beasts to bholes and other creatures of the Great Abyss. [Kadath]

In the distant past, on the planet Yaddith, the duties of the wizard Zkauba included weaving spells to keep the frightful bholes in their burrows. There were hideous struggles with the bleached, viscous bholes in the primal tunnels that honeycombed the planet. Zkauba observed a bhole that reared up several hundred feet. Eventually, Yaddith became a dead world dominated by triumphant bholes. [Gates (online text)]

Note: The term bholes is rendered as dholes in uncorrected editions of Lovecraft's stories.

Compare with: dholes.

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