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Encyclopedia > Ghast

Ghast has a number of meanings, primarily being referred to as the clothing line.

  • Ghasts are a race of creatures in H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands. This appears to be the earliest use of the term, from which the uses below seem to derive.
  • Ghast is the third member of a demonic trio (along with Abnegazar and Rath) who were featured sporadically in the original Justice League of America comic book series.
  • Ghasts are a stronger breed of ghoul in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.
  • In the game RuneScape, Ghasts are evil spirits that rot food when the player is in the Mort-Myre Swamp.
  • Ghasts are a type of un-dead foe which appear in the Stilshrine of Miriam in the 2006 Square Enix game Final Fantasy XII
  • Ghasts are weak creatures, similar to ghosts, in Joseph Delaney's series of books, The Wardstone Chronicles.
  • Ghasts is a melee type unit capable of dealing a lot of damage but relatively weak, found in the online game, Shattered Galaxy.

The word "ghast" may either be a recent back-formation, arising from either the word "ghastly", which came from Anglo-Saxon gāstlīc = "like a ghost"; or the word "aghast", from the Middle English gāstēn to frighten. Or alternatively Lovecraft may have derived it directly from the Anglo-Saxon form of the word ghost: gāst. The underworld is a fictional location in the Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft. ... Many fantasy stories and worlds call their main sapient humanoid species races rather than species. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author from Providence, Rhode Island of fantasy, horror and science fiction. ... The Dreamlands is a fictional location in the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. ... For the animated television series, see Justice League (TV series) or Justice League Unlimited. ... In the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game, ghouls are monstrous, undead humans who reek of carrion. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... This article is about games in which one plays the role of a character. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ... Final Fantasy XII ) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the Sony PlayStation 2 video game console, and the twelfth installment in the Final Fantasy video game series. ... The Wardstone Chronicles (also known as Spook Books to fans) are a series of books written by the author Joseph Delaney and published by Random House. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... In etymology, the process of back-formation is the creation of a neologism by reinterpreting an earlier word as a compound and removing the spuriously supposed affixes. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Penis[1], Englisc by its speakers) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...


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Ghast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (199 words)
Ghasts are a race of creatures in H.
Ghast is the third member of a demonic trio (along with Abnegazar and Rath) who were featured sporadically in the original Justice League of America comic book series.
The word "ghast" may either be a recent back-formation, arising from either the word "ghastly", which came from Anglo-Saxon gāstlīc = "like a ghost"; or the word "aghast", from the Middle English gāstēn to frighten.
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Ghast unzipped his duffle bag and put the flashlight from the glove compartment into it.
Ghast peered into what once must have been the living room of this house.
Ghast covered his ears, but the sound was as loud as ever.
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