Gloon, also known as The Corrupter of Flesh and Master of the Temple, is the main antagonist of the Cthulhu Mythos short story "The Temple", created by the late horror-fantasy writer H. P. Lovecraft. He is also the overarching antagonist of the 2022 animated short film The Temple.
It is a cosmic entity who manifests through a Dionysian sculpture, but its true form is that of a leathery, bloated slug whose skin hangs off its body in great flaps.
Biography[]
Like the other Great Old Ones, Gloon came to Earth thousands of years ago, and choose to manifest his presence on the planet as a greek sculpture similar to god Dionysus, apparently made of carved ivory and held om the sunken remains of an ancient Temple.
Through means unknown, a piece of the sculpture wound up in the North Atlantic, where it was found by one by a officer of a German submarine during World War I. The officer keeps the object because of its apparent great age and value. However, the entity's mere presence on it proved corruptive to the crew, who succumbed to dark impulses and eventually killed each other.
Trivia[]
- Although not named "Gloon" in The Temple, the entity's name seems to have appeared in a scenario in Cthulhu Now (G.W. Thomas's scenario "The City in the Sea"), and then in a version of the Malleus Monstrorum.
- The word "gloon" seems to have first appeared in Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel Vril, or The Coming Race (fiction), allegedly a word from the language of the Vril-ya (underground civilization of the novel) and means "town".
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