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 * deity: [[The Haunter of the Dark]] (Avatar of Nyarlathotep)
 * location:  [[Dreamlands]]
-* race: see alternatively [[larvae of the Other Gods]]
+* race: see alternatively [[Larvae of the Other Gods]]

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 Hunting Horrors were inspired by a throw-away reference in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s 1926 novel ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]'' and a description in "[[August Derleth]]'s short "posthumous collaboration" "[[Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)]]", developed further by [[Chaosium]] for the ''[[Call of Cthulhu (RPG)]]''.
-As described by Lovecraft, the Horrors might actually be identical to the [[Larvae of the Outer Gods]]:
+As described by Lovecraft, the Horrors might actually be identical to the [[Larvae of the Other Gods]]:
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 Great polypous horrors slid darkly past, and unseen bat-wings beat multitudinous around him... shoals of shapeless lurkers and caperers in darkness, and vacuous herds of drifting entities that pawed and groped and groped and pawed; the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, that are like them blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.... Cries rent the aether as ribbons of light beat back the fiends from outside. And hoary [[Nodens]] raised a howl of triumph when [[Nyarlathotep]], close on his quarry, stopped baffled by a glare that seared his formless hunting-horrors to grey dust....
-<br>— [[H. P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]''
+<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]''
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 * deity: [[The Haunter of the Dark]] (Avatar of Nyarlathotep)
 * location:  [[Dreamlands]]
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 Great polypous horrors slid darkly past, and unseen bat-wings beat multitudinous around him... shoals of shapeless lurkers and caperers in darkness, and vacuous herds of drifting entities that pawed and groped and groped and pawed; the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, that are like them blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.... Cries rent the aether as ribbons of light beat back the fiends from outside. And hoary [[Nodens]] raised a howl of triumph when [[Nyarlathotep]], close on his quarry, stopped baffled by a glare that seared his formless hunting-horrors to grey dust....
-— [[H. P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]''
+<br>— [[H. P. Lovecraft]], ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]''
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 ==In the Mythos==
 Hunting Horrors were inspired by a throw-away reference in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s 1926 novel ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]'' and a description in "[[August Derleth]]'s short "posthumous collaboration" "[[Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)]]", developed further by [[Chaosium]] for the ''[[Call of Cthulhu (RPG)]]''.
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+'''Hunting-Horrors''' (AKA "Hunting Horrors", "Hunting Horrors of Leng") were inspired by a throw-away reference in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]'' and a description in "[[August Derleth]]'s "[[Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)]]".
-A Hunting Horror is a fictional monster in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. The creature was first mentioned in Lovecraft's novella [[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]], published in 1926.
+==Description==
-Hunting Horrors resemble enormous ropy, black serpents or worms with bat-like or umbrella-like wings. Their forms are said to continually shift and change, twitching and writhing, so that it is hard to view them. Some may have only a single large wing rather than two.
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-These beings are dispelled by daylight, though a strong enough burst of light could sear one to dust. Hunting Horrors move swiftly and serve as harriers for the god [[Nyarlathotep]]. One of Nyarlathotep's avatars, [[The Haunter of the Dark]], shares similar traits with the Hunting Horrors.
+Hunting Horrors, the hunting-beasts of Dreamlands horrors, resemble enormous twitching, squirming worms with one or more black, rubbery sail- or umbrella-like fins or wings.  They are nocturnal and injured by light, and especially bright light can sear them into dust.  Hunting Horrors serve as harriers for the god [[Nyarlathotep]], and one of Nyarlathotep's avatars, [[The Haunter of the Dark]], shares similar traits with the Hunting Horrors.
-* sourcebook:  ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'', ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands]]''
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	These beings are dispelled by daylight, though a strong enough burst of light could sear one to dust. Hunting Horrors move swiftly and serve as harriers for the god [[Nyarlathotep]]. One of Nyarlathotep's avatars, [[The Haunter of the Dark]], shares similar traits with the Hunting Horrors.		These beings are dispelled by daylight, though a strong enough burst of light could sear one to dust. Hunting Horrors move swiftly and serve as harriers for the god [[Nyarlathotep]]. One of Nyarlathotep's avatars, [[The Haunter of the Dark]], shares similar traits with the Hunting Horrors.
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		+	* sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]'', ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands]]''
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	A Hunting Horror is a fictional monster in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. The creature was first mentioned in Lovecraft's novella [[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]], published in 1926.		A Hunting Horror is a fictional monster in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. The creature was first mentioned in Lovecraft's novella [[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]], published in 1926.