
#079 Also known as the Corrupter of Flesh and Master of the Temple. It described as great limacene or slug-like abomination, though it usually hides its true nature through the glamour of a beautiful Dionysian statue. In the expanded Cthulhu Mythos added to by later authors, there is a homoerotic element to mankind's fascination with Gloon's false appearance. Gloon appears (though is unnamed) in author Molly Tanzer's novelette "The Infernal History of the Ivybridge Twins" - in this tale he is served by dolphins (which were long-associated with Dionysus) | Book II - Great Old One