- Shantak
A shantak is a fictional creature in the writings of
H. P. Lovecraft . It is also part of theCthulhu Mythos . The creature first appeared in Lovecraft'snovella "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath " (1926).Description
They were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland, for they were larger than elephants and had heads like a horse's. Carter knew that they must be the shantak-birds of ill rumour, and wondered no more what evil guardians and nameless sentinels made men avoid the boreal rock desert.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"A shantak is a huge, scaly, birdlike creature with batlike wings, slimy skin, and two strong talons that lives in the Cold Waste of Earth's
Dreamlands . Shantaks are sometimes summoned to serve as steeds. They are hunted by the Elder God Nodens and greatly fearnightgaunts .References
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