/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightgaunt

>Nightgaunt

>Nightgaunts (also Night-Gaunt or night-gaunt) are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. The creatures appear in the poem "Night-Gaunts" and the novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, both by Lovecraft.

>Nightgaunts were inspired by Lovecraft's childhood nightmares. Lovecraft once wrote in a letter to a friend: "When I was 6 or 7 I used to be tormented constantly with a peculiar type of recurrent nightmare in which a monstrous race of entities (called by me 'night-gaunts'—I don't know where I got hold of the name) used to snatch me up [and] carry me off...

>Undoubtedly I derived the [creatures' appearance] from the jumbled memory of Doré drawings (largely the illustrations to 'Paradise Lost') which fascinated me in waking hours."[1] S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz trace these nightmares to childhood anxiety over the death of his grandmother.