Ghasts

[HPL Kadath (online text)]: Of the dreamlands. Primitive creatures who live in the pitch-dark Vaults of Zin, which connects to the underground realm of the gugs. The ghasts are the main food of the gugs, who enter the Vaults of Zin to hunt them. In turn, the ghasts creep forth during the sleeping-hour of the gugs to attack them while they are defenseless. The ghasts cannot discriminate among victims, and so they attack ghouls as readily as gugs, and even eat each other. Light is fatal to the ghasts, though they can tolerate the twilight of the gugs' kingdom for hours. Their sense of smell is very sharp.

Ghasts are the size of a small horse. Their aspect is scabrous and unwholesome, filthy and disproportioned. Their faces are curiously human despite the absence of a nose, a forehead, and other important particulars. They have yellowish-red eyes. They have long hind legs and hard pointed hooves. They move by grubbing about or making kangaroo leaps. They speak in coughing gutterals.

The ghasts often hop up the steps in the Tower of Koth (1) while the gugs sleep. The gugs often chase escaped ghasts up to the very top of the tower.

The night-gaunts planned to feed the conquered moon-things to ghasts and other creatures of the Great Abyss.

The star-stones provide protection against the ghasts [AWD Lurker] .

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