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Soul of Chaos and Night-Gaunt are statted out in the Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook, and originate in the Robert Bloch story "The Dark Demon (fiction)".

Description

In Robert Bloch's 1936 short story "The Dark Demon (fiction)", Edgar H. Gordon is a failed writer of horror fiction who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. His morbid writings (such as "Gargoyle", "The Principle of Evil", Night-Gaunt, and The Soul of Chaos) were said to drive away readers and publishers alike. The tales were particularly repellent, apparently based on real Mythos lore. They were originally released separately, but an omnibus anthology was released via small press in the 1950s.

Soul of Chaos

• author: Edgar Hengist Gordon
• date: 1930s?
• language: English
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 7 weeks
• sanity loss: minimal
• mythos lore: minimal
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ?
• physical description: pulp horror novel or anthology?
• general content: Unknown

Night-Gaunt

• author: Edgar Hengist Gordon
• date: 1930s?
• language: English
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 7 weeks
• sanity loss: minimal
• mythos lore: minimal
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ?
• physical description: pulp horror novel or anthology?
• general content: Unknown

Gargoyle

• author: Edgar Hengist Gordon
• date: 1920s?
• language: English
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 1 weeks
• sanity loss: negligible
• mythos lore: negligible
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ?
• physical description: pulp horror story
• general content: Unknown

The Principle of Evil

• author: Edgar Hengist Gordon
• date: 1920s?
• language: English
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 7 weeks
• sanity loss: negligible
• mythos lore: negligible
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ?
• physical description: pulp horror story
• general content: Unknown

Night-Gaunt and Others

• author: Edgar Hengist Gordon
• date: 1954 (published posthumously)
• language: English
• number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
• last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
• study: 22 weeks
• sanity loss: minor
• mythos lore: minor
• occult lore: ?
• spells:  ?

Physical description: a omnibus anthology of the collected weird fiction of Edgar H. Gordon; the volume, with a cheap paperback cover decorated with tormented, alien faces, is only slightly larger than a typical novel. Released by a small press with limited funding, the volume corrects few of the original editing and typographical mistakes of the original pulp versions that were released separately decades before, and adds a number of new ones.

General content: Includes all of Gordon's weird stories (including the longer works Soul of Chaos and Night-Gaunt, a number of shorter stories, several prose poems, a few fragmentary works, some juvenalia, an essay on the topic of occult horror and a few paragraphs in praise of Bubastis, with some biographical material, comments from Gordon's surviving correspondents, and other odds and ends.)

Appearances

• fiction: Robert Bloch story "The Dark Demon (fiction)"
• sourcebook: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook