The Hound is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft published in the 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It is notable for containing the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional grimoire, the Necronomicon, and is considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The story follows an unnamed narrator and his friend St. John, who are obsessed with grave-robbing and have built a macabre museum in their basement filled with preserved bodies, skulls, mummies, and other grotesque artifacts. Their obsession leads them to a Holland churchyard to exhume the tomb of a legendary grave robber. They discover a jade amulet in the shape of a winged hound with a semi-canine face, which they recognize as described in the Necronomicon. After stealing it, they are pursued by a monstrous hound, leading to the death of St. John and the narrator’s descent into madness.

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The Mound is a horror and science fiction novella by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1929– as a ghostwriter for Zealia Bishop, ...