SOURCE: "The Charnal God" by Clark Ashton Smith (Weird Tales, March 1934)

DESCRIPTION:"Into the room, from the dark hall, there poured a horde of creatures whose violet robes alone identified them in Phariom's eyes as the priests of the ghoul-god. They had removed the skull-like masks, revealing heads and faces that were half anthropomorphic, half canine, and wholly diabolic. Also, they had taken off the fingerless gloves... There were at least a dozen of them. Their curving talons gleamed in the bloody light like the hooks of darkly tarnished metal; their spiky teeth, longer than coffin nails, protruded from snarling lips. They closed like a ring of jackals on Abnon-Tha and Narghai, driving them back into the farthest corner." ("The Charnal God" by Clark Ashton Smith)

NOTES: The Priests of the charnal god are usually covered from head to foot in long robes, hoods and gloves.

HISTORY: The dog-headed/ghoul-like priests of Mordiggian are related to Lovecraft's dog-headed ghouls.