'The Hound' is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon.
'The Hound' contains several references to the body of lore known as the Cthulhu Mythos that Lovecraft shared with other horror writers. Most notably, it marks the first appearance of one of Lovecraft's most famous literary creations-the forbidden book known as the Necronomicon. Lovecraft had mentioned its author a year earlier, in 'The Nameless City', but here for the first time named the book. Referring to an amulet found on a grave-robbing expedition, the narrator relates...