Gugs

[HPL Kadath (online text)]: Of the dreamlands. The gugs are hairy and gigantic beings, twenty feet in height. A buried gug will feed a community of ghouls for almost a year. Its arm is covered with black fur and bifurcates into two short forearms, with a paw each. Each paw is two and a half feet across, with formidable talons. The head is as large as a barrel, with two pink eyes that jut two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. The mouth runs vertically from the top to the bottom of the head, and has great yellow fangs.

The gugs have no voice, but talk by means of facial expression. However, their hearing is very sharp, and they have grown accustomed to seeing without light when necessary.

The terrible kingdom of the gugs intervenes between the gulf of the ghouls and the enchanted wood. A great wall separates the ghouls from the gugs' kingdom. The gugs' city extends through their whole kingdom. The city has round towers of immense height, with thirty foot doorways.

The gugs once lived in the enchanted wood, where they reared stone circles and made sacrifices to the Other Gods and the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Then an abomination of theirs reached the ears of the Great Ones, who banished them to caverns below. Only a stone trapdoor with a great iron ring connects their realm with the enchanted wood, and the gugs are afraid to open it because of a curse. A central tower with the sign of Koth (1) has stairs leading from their caverns up to the stone trap-door. The steps are nearly a yard high. Near the Tower of Koth is a cemetery and also the mouth of the vaults of Zin.

Formerly, the gugs ate mortal dreamers for their food, and they have legends of the toothsomeness of such dreamers. But since their exile to the caverns, their diet is restricted to the ghasts. The gugs venture into the vaults of Zin to hunt ghasts in the dark. However, during the gugs' hour of rest, the ghasts sneak out of the vaults of Zin to attack the sleeping gugs.

The gugs are somewhat afraid of ghouls, but would still attack the latter if circumstances were sufficiently advantageous.

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

The gugs can be summoned to any place that someone has set up stones and said the forbidden words three times [AWD Lurker, Whippoorwills].

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