Entities & creaturesHastur
Hastur begins as a god of shepherds in Ambrose Bierce’s Haïta the Shepherd. Robert W. Chambers reuses the name among the suggestive references surrounding The King in Yellow, and Lovecraft includes it in The Whisperer in Darkness. These appearances are stages of a literary history, not a single original description of a clearly defined monster.
6 min read · 1,131 words
