gaunts

The stories were amazing to me, about a dream world filled with monsters and ghouls and gaunts.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

Drawing upon his power, Aerune summoned all those creatures of his Dark Court who had the power to walk these streets: the gaunts and boggins, the redcaps and phookas, trolls, goblins, Bane-Sidhe, all the dark fellowship of the Unseleighe Court, those creatures twined closer to mortal man than any lover, for Man was their prey.

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Drawing upon his power, Aerune summoned all those creatures of his Dark Court who had the power to walk these streets: the gaunts and boggins, the redcaps and phookas, trolls, goblins, Bane-Sidhe, all the dark fellowship of the Unseleighe Court, those creatures twined closer to mortal man than any lover, for Man was their prey.

Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

Already in early childhood, Lovecraft suffered from violent dreams and nightmares; he called these afflictions, to which he would give minute expression in his tales, the "night-gaunts."

The King of Weird Oates, Joyce Carol 1996

In such a reversal, the tension of resisting sadness is abruptly eased; the dreaded "night-gaunts" may be embraced like literal kin.

The King of Weird Oates, Joyce Carol 1996

She heard the throb of rubbery wings as the BRIAN LUMLEV shadows of the gaunts fell across her; but then, before the wizard could do more than turn his feral eyes on her, she swung the metal stave against his head.

Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

Now, as Eldin skewered the last of the gaunts through its neck, sending its lifeless body spinning into die awesome chasm, the demon-god reached out from beneath his billowing cloak three green and black things which might have been arms, each terminating in seven slimy worms which were perhaps fingers.

Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

Aminza, buffeted almost unconscious by the wings of the two gaunts as they sped with her back along the tunnel toward the temple of Yibb-Tstll, did not see what passed her moving in the opposite direction.

Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

He cast his eyes up to the ceiling where clung the two gaunts which had recaptured her.

Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

In Celephais I talked to a prospector who once had a brush with gaunts when he was climbing in the Heights of Lerion.

Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986