fiction.wikisort.org - CharacterA Hound of Tindalos is a fictional creature created by Frank Belknap Long and later incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos when it was codified by August Derleth.[1] They first appeared in Long's short story "The Hounds of Tindalos", first published in the March 1929 issue of Weird Tales.[2] Lovecraft mentions the creatures in his short story "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931).
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Fictional character
Hound of Tindalos |
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First appearance | "The Hounds of Tindalos" |
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Created by | Frank Belknap Long |
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Species | Pseudocanis tindalosi |
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Type | Extraterrestrial life form |
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Description
In Frank Belknap Long's original story, which deals with the main character experimenting in time travel with the help of psychedelic drugs and esoteric artifacts, the Hounds are said to inhabit the angles of time, while other beings (such as humankind and all common life) descend from curves.
Though the Hounds are sometimes pictured as canine, probably because of the evocative name, their appearance is unknown, since neither Long nor Lovecraft describe them, arguing they are too foul to ever be described.[3] Long's story states that their name "veils their foulness". It is said that they have long, hollow tongues or proboscises to drain victims' body-fluids, and that they excrete a strange blue pus or ichor. They can materialize through any corner if it is fairly sharp—120° or less. When a Hound is about to manifest, it materializes first as smoke pouring from the corner, and finally the head emerges followed by the body. It is said that once a human becomes known to one of these creatures, a Hound of Tindalos will pursue the victim through anything to reach its quarry. A person risks attracting their attention by traveling through time.
References
Sources
- Long, Frank Belknap. "The Hounds of Tindalos" (1929). In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1st ed.), Random House, 1998. ISBN 0-345-42204-X.
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- "The Beast in the Cave"
- "The Alchemist"
- "The Tomb"
- "Dagon"
- "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
- "Polaris"
- "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"
- "Memory"
- "Old Bugs"
- "The Transition of Juan Romero"
- "The White Ship"
- "The Street"
- "The Doom That Came to Sarnath"
- "The Statement of Randolph Carter"
- "The Terrible Old Man"
- "The Tree"
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- "The Temple"
- "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"
- "Celephaïs"
- "From Beyond"
- "Nyarlathotep"
- "The Picture in the House"
- "Ex Oblivione"
- "Sweet Ermengarde"
- "The Nameless City"
- "The Quest of Iranon"
- "The Moon-Bog"
- "The Outsider"
- "The Other Gods"
- "The Music of Erich Zann"
- "Herbert West–Reanimator"
- "Hypnos"
- "What the Moon Brings"
- "Azathoth"
- "The Hound"
- "The Lurking Fear"
- "The Rats in the Walls"
- "The Unnamable"
- "The Festival"
- "The Shunned House"
- "The Horror at Red Hook"
- "He"
- "In the Vault"
- "Cool Air"
- "The Call of Cthulhu"
- "Pickman's Model"
- "The Silver Key"
- "The Strange High House in the Mist"
- "The Colour Out of Space"
- "The Descendant"
- "History of the Necronomicon"
- "The Very Old Folk"
- "Ibid"
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- "The Dreams in the Witch House"
- "The Thing on the Doorstep"
- "The Evil Clergyman"
- "The Book"
- "The Haunter of the Dark"
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- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- The Whisperer in Darkness
- At the Mountains of Madness
- The Shadow over Innsmouth
- The Shadow Out of Time
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Novels |
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
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Collaborations |
- "The Green Meadow"
- "Poetry and the Gods"
- "The Crawling Chaos"
- "The Horror at Martin's Beach"
- "Under the Pyramids"
- "The Curse of Yig"
- The Mound
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- "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"
- "Out of the Aeons"
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- "In the Walls of Eryx"
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- "Supernatural Horror in Literature"
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- Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
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- Arkham
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- Lovecraft Country
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Books about |
- H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
- H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
- An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
- Lovecraft: A Biography
- Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos
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