Chaugnar Faugn (The Elephant God, The Horror from the Hills) is a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. The being was created by Frank Belknap Long and first appeared in his novel The Horror from the Hills. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Cthulhu in Rlyeh Cthulhu mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared themes, characters, and elements in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, his protegés, and writers influenced by him. ... Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1903 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...

Chaugnar Faugn in the mythos

Some were the figures of well-known myth – gorgons, chimaeras, dragons, cyclops, and all their shuddersome congeners. Others were drawn from darker and more furtively whispered cycles of subterranean legend – black, formless Tsathoggua, many-tentacled Cthulhu, proboscidian Chaugnar Faugn, and other rumoured blasphemies from forbidden books like the Necronomicon, the Book of Eibon, or the Unaussprechlichen Kulten of von Junzt.
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Chaugnar Faugn (or Chaugnar Faughn) is a Great Old One and has the appearance of a human with an elephantine head. Chaugnar Faugn came to the Earth from another dimension eons ago. Upon arriving, he found only simple amphibians as the dominant lifeform. From these creatures, he created the Miri Nigri to be his servitors. The Miri Nigri would later mate with early humans to produce hybrids, eventually evolving into the horrid Tcho-Tcho people. The Great Old Ones are a group of fictional deities in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. ... In common usage, the dimensions (from Latin measured out) of an object are the parameters or measurements required to define its shape and size, that is, usually, its height, width, and length. ... Orders Subclass Labyrinthodontia - extinct Subclass Lepospondyli - extinct Subclass Lissamphibia   Anura   Caudata   Gymnophiona Amphibians (class Amphibia) are a taxon of animals that include all tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) that do not have amniotic eggs. ... In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ...

References

• Harms, Daniel. "Chaugnar Faugn" in The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed.), pp. 50–1. Chaosium, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

• Long, Frank Belknap. The Horror from the Hills (1931). Arkham House, 1963. ISBN 9-99753-969-9.

• Lovecraft, Howard P. and Hazel Heald. "The Horror in the Museum" (1933) in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, S.T. Joshi (ed.), 1989. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-87054-040-8.