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Entities & creatures

Moon-beasts

The moon-beasts are the pale, changeable masters of the black-galley trade in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Carter encounters them as strong, eyeless, tentacle-faced inhabitants of a lunar city whose commerce depends on disguised intermediaries, captive labor and predation.

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Literature

What the Moon Brings

What the Moon Brings is a brief dreamlike account of a garden that opens onto a sea of the dead. Moonlight turns familiar beauty into a route toward knowledge the narrator finally cannot bear. The unnamed colossal image revealed offshore belongs to this particular vision and is not identified as Cthulhu or another established deity.

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