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* CruelElephant: His other big contribution to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, [[EldritchAbomination Chaugnar Faugn]], an [[TimeAbyss unthinkably ancient]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-drinking]] [[BodyHorror flesh-warping]] elephant-headed horror.
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!! Tropes in his works:
* AlienGeometries: "The Hounds of Tindalos" features ravenous creatures of weird geometry who travel through time and space, and the only way to avoid them once they're on your trail is to completely avoid sharp angles (such as in a completely circular room).
* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed by the titular monsters. Amusingly, the doomed writer literally transcribes his dying scream:
-->'''Chalmers' notes''': Their tongues—ahhhhh—
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: In "The Hounds Of Tindalos" the titular Hounds are strange, angular creatures who existed long before single-celled organisms first evolved. They are normally invisible as they inhabit the "angles of time" as opposed to the "curves of time" that humans and other life-forms do. Thus, they can freely travel through time as well as materialize through any corner of a wall or object if it's sharp enough (120 degrees or less). Thus, the only way to avoid getting hunted and eaten by one is to stay in a room with no angles... forever.
* AlienGeometries: "The Hounds of Tindalos" features ravenous creatures of weird geometry who travel through time and space, and the only way to avoid them once they're on your trail is to completely avoid sharp angles (such as in a completely circular room).
* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed by the titular monsters. Amusingly, the doomed writer literally transcribes his dying scream:
-->'''Chalmers' notes''': Their tongues—ahhhhh—
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: In "The Hounds Of Tindalos" the titular Hounds are strange, angular creatures who existed long before single-celled organisms first evolved. They are normally invisible as they inhabit the "angles of time" as opposed to the "curves of time" that humans and other life-forms do. Thus, they can freely travel through time as well as materialize through any corner of a wall or object if it's sharp enough (120 degrees or less). Thus, the only way to avoid getting hunted and eaten by one is to stay in a room with no angles... forever.
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* AlienGeometries: "The Hounds of Tindalos" features ravenous creatures of weird geometry who travel through time and space, and the only way to avoid them once they're on your trail is to completely avoid sharp angles (such as in a completely circular room).
* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed
-->'''Chalmers' notes''': Their tongues—ahhhhh—
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: In "The Hounds Of Tindalos" the titular Hounds are strange, angular creatures who existed long before single-celled organisms first evolved. They are normally invisible as they inhabit the "angles of time" as opposed to the "curves of time" that humans and other life-forms do. Thus, they can freely travel through time as well as materialize through any corner of a wall or object if it's sharp enough (120 degrees or less). Thus, the only way to avoid getting hunted and eaten by one is to stay in a room
* "Literature/TheHoundsOfTindalos"
!!Other works by Frank Belknap Long contain examples of:
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* HellHound: The Hounds of Tindalos are Hellhounds mixed with EldritchAbomination. Their existence predates multicellular life on Earth, they are immortal, and they can travel freely through time and space. Since they can exist in the "angles" of time (everything else lives in the "curves"), they can manifest through any corner (120 degrees or less) anywhere. The Hounds aren't named as such for their appearance (the original story implies a more bat-like appearance but later illustrations depict them as canines) but for their relentlessness. The Hounds hunger for something other living creatures possess that they lack; once they become aware of something or someone they will ''never'' stop hunting them. An easy way to gain their attention is to travel through time.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: The story "The Hounds of Tindalos" centers on a man who tries to use an obscure drug as a form of MentalTimeTravel. At first it works brilliantly, until he goes a little ''too'' far into the past...
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: While not hyperspace per se, the dimension dwelt in by the Hounds of Tindalos is a pretty nasty place to be, as if you travel through it, you set the Hound on you. And as they can enter the world through any angle, and will never stop; this is bad to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: "Hounds of Tindalos" depicts an experiment in mental time travel that goes horribly wrong when the traveller is spotted by the eponymous beings, spectral creatures from another plane of existence who follow him back through time and eventually kill him.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: The story "The Hounds of Tindalos" centers on a man who tries to use an obscure drug as a form of MentalTimeTravel. At first it works brilliantly, until he goes a little ''too'' far into the past...
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: While not hyperspace per se, the dimension dwelt in by the Hounds of Tindalos is a pretty nasty place to be, as if you travel through it, you set the Hound on you. And as they can enter the world through any angle, and will never stop; this is bad to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: "Hounds of Tindalos" depicts an experiment in mental time travel that goes horribly wrong when the traveller is spotted by the eponymous beings, spectral creatures from another plane of existence who follow him back through time and eventually kill him.
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* TimeAbyss: ''The Hounds Of Tindalos'' from the eponymous story are from an age "before space and time". They can move casually through the angles of time, to hunt those humans who have travelled in time and devour them.
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* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed by the titular monsters. Robert Bloch also wrote a story ''titled'' "Notebook Found in a Deserted House", which is basically a 12- year-old boy writing down everything that happened to him in a notebook while he's hiding from the horror that's literally just outside his house. It suddenly ends mid-sentence just as he's found. Amusingly, the doomed writer literally transcribes his dying scream:
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* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed by the titular monsters. Robert Bloch also wrote a story ''titled'' "Notebook Found in a Deserted House", which is basically a 12- year-old boy writing down everything that happened to him in a notebook while he's hiding from the horror that's literally just outside his house. It suddenly ends mid-sentence just as he's found. Amusingly, the doomed writer literally transcribes his dying scream:
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* FictionalColour: In "The Space Eaters", the narrator and his friend discuss {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, one property of which is being of a color unknown on Earth.
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Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) was an American author and editor, best known for his contributions to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. In the 1920s and 1930s, he wrote for a wide variety of pulp magazines, and also published some volumes of poetry, with the help of his friend Creator/HPLovecraft and others. In the 1940s, he added comic-book writer to his resume, writing scripts for ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', and many more. In the 1950s, he started working as an editor for several magazines. He continued writing throughout his life. Though most of his work was science fiction and/or horror, he covered a wide variety of other genres over the years, from mystery to gothic romance. He wrote a biography of his old friend, Creator/HPLovecraft in the 1970s.
His best known contribution to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is the Hounds of Tindalos, creatures first introduced in his short story of the same name. The story was the first Mythos story written by someone other than Lovecraft. The Hounds have appeared in several other stories by Long, Lovecraft, and many others.
He was given a lifetime achievement WorldFantasyAward in 1978, and a lifetime achievement Bram Stoker Award (from the Horror Writers of America) in 1987.
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!! Tropes in his works:
* AlienGeometries: "The Hounds of Tindalos" features ravenous creatures of weird geometry who travel through time and space, and the only way to avoid them once they're on your trail is to completely avoid sharp angles (such as in a completely circular room).
* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed by the titular monsters. Robert Bloch also wrote a story ''titled'' "Notebook Found in a Deserted House", which is basically a 12- year-old boy writing down everything that happened to him in a notebook while he's hiding from the horror that's literally just outside his house. It suddenly ends mid-sentence just as he's found. Amusingly, the doomed writer literally transcribes his dying scream:
-->'''Chalmers' notes''': Their tongues—ahhhhh—
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: In "The Hounds Of Tindalos" the titular Hounds are strange, angular creatures who existed long before single-celled organisms first evolved. They are normally invisible as they inhabit the "angles of time" as opposed to the "curves of time" that humans and other life-forms do. Thus, they can freely travel through time as well as materialize through any corner of a wall or object if it's sharp enough (120 degrees or less). Thus, the only way to avoid getting hunted and eaten by one is to stay in a room with no angles... forever.
* FictionalColour: In "The Space Eaters", the narrator and his friend discuss {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, one property of which is being of a color unknown on Earth.
* HellHound: The Hounds of Tindalos are Hellhounds mixed with EldritchAbomination. Their existence predates multicellular life on Earth, they are immortal, and they can travel freely through time and space. Since they can exist in the "angles" of time (everything else lives in the "curves"), they can manifest through any corner (120 degrees or less) anywhere. The Hounds aren't named as such for their appearance (the original story implies a more bat-like appearance but later illustrations depict them as canines) but for their relentlessness. The Hounds hunger for something other living creatures possess that they lack; once they become aware of something or someone they will ''never'' stop hunting them. An easy way to gain their attention is to travel through time.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: The story "The Hounds of Tindalos" centers on a man who tries to use an obscure drug as a form of MentalTimeTravel. At first it works brilliantly, until he goes a little ''too'' far into the past...
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: While not hyperspace per se, the dimension dwelt in by the Hounds of Tindalos is a pretty nasty place to be, as if you travel through it, you set the Hound on you. And as they can enter the world through any angle, and will never stop; this is bad to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: "Hounds of Tindalos" depicts an experiment in mental time travel that goes horribly wrong when the traveller is spotted by the eponymous beings, spectral creatures from another plane of existence who follow him back through time and eventually kill him.
* SpacetimeEater: [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "The Space Eaters"]] begins with a conversation between the narrator and his friend on such {{Eldritch Abomination}}s:
-->"Suppose there were a greater horror? Suppose evil things from some other universe should decide to invade this one? Suppose we couldn't see them? Suppose we couldn't feel them? Suppose they were of a color unknown on Earth, or rather, of an appearance that was without color?... What could we do? Our hands would be tied. You cannot oppose what you cannot see or feel. You cannot oppose the thousand-dimensional. Suppose they should eat their way to us through space!"
* TimeAbyss: ''The Hounds Of Tindalos'' from the eponymous story are from an age "before space and time". They can move casually through the angles of time, to hunt those humans who have travelled in time and devour them.
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His best known contribution to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is the Hounds of Tindalos, creatures first introduced in his short story of the same name. The story was the first Mythos story written by someone other than Lovecraft. The Hounds have appeared in several other stories by Long, Lovecraft, and many others.
He was given a lifetime achievement WorldFantasyAward in 1978, and a lifetime achievement Bram Stoker Award (from the Horror Writers of America) in 1987.
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!! Tropes in his works:
* AlienGeometries: "The Hounds of Tindalos" features ravenous creatures of weird geometry who travel through time and space, and the only way to avoid them once they're on your trail is to completely avoid sharp angles (such as in a completely circular room).
* ApocalypticLog: In "The Hounds of Tindalos", a police officer investigating a writer's sudden death finds a few scraps of paper he had written on, the last of which was apparently scribbled as he was attacked and killed by the titular monsters. Robert Bloch also wrote a story ''titled'' "Notebook Found in a Deserted House", which is basically a 12- year-old boy writing down everything that happened to him in a notebook while he's hiding from the horror that's literally just outside his house. It suddenly ends mid-sentence just as he's found. Amusingly, the doomed writer literally transcribes his dying scream:
-->'''Chalmers' notes''': Their tongues—ahhhhh—
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: In "The Hounds Of Tindalos" the titular Hounds are strange, angular creatures who existed long before single-celled organisms first evolved. They are normally invisible as they inhabit the "angles of time" as opposed to the "curves of time" that humans and other life-forms do. Thus, they can freely travel through time as well as materialize through any corner of a wall or object if it's sharp enough (120 degrees or less). Thus, the only way to avoid getting hunted and eaten by one is to stay in a room with no angles... forever.
* FictionalColour: In "The Space Eaters", the narrator and his friend discuss {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, one property of which is being of a color unknown on Earth.
* HellHound: The Hounds of Tindalos are Hellhounds mixed with EldritchAbomination. Their existence predates multicellular life on Earth, they are immortal, and they can travel freely through time and space. Since they can exist in the "angles" of time (everything else lives in the "curves"), they can manifest through any corner (120 degrees or less) anywhere. The Hounds aren't named as such for their appearance (the original story implies a more bat-like appearance but later illustrations depict them as canines) but for their relentlessness. The Hounds hunger for something other living creatures possess that they lack; once they become aware of something or someone they will ''never'' stop hunting them. An easy way to gain their attention is to travel through time.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: The story "The Hounds of Tindalos" centers on a man who tries to use an obscure drug as a form of MentalTimeTravel. At first it works brilliantly, until he goes a little ''too'' far into the past...
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: While not hyperspace per se, the dimension dwelt in by the Hounds of Tindalos is a pretty nasty place to be, as if you travel through it, you set the Hound on you. And as they can enter the world through any angle, and will never stop; this is bad to say the least.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: "Hounds of Tindalos" depicts an experiment in mental time travel that goes horribly wrong when the traveller is spotted by the eponymous beings, spectral creatures from another plane of existence who follow him back through time and eventually kill him.
* SpacetimeEater: [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "The Space Eaters"]] begins with a conversation between the narrator and his friend on such {{Eldritch Abomination}}s:
-->"Suppose there were a greater horror? Suppose evil things from some other universe should decide to invade this one? Suppose we couldn't see them? Suppose we couldn't feel them? Suppose they were of a color unknown on Earth, or rather, of an appearance that was without color?... What could we do? Our hands would be tied. You cannot oppose what you cannot see or feel. You cannot oppose the thousand-dimensional. Suppose they should eat their way to us through space!"
* TimeAbyss: ''The Hounds Of Tindalos'' from the eponymous story are from an age "before space and time". They can move casually through the angles of time, to hunt those humans who have travelled in time and devour them.
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