Ghast
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Ghast has a number of meanings.
- Ghasts are a race of creatures in H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands. This appears to be the earliest use of the term, from which the uses below seem to derive.
- Ghast is the third member of a demonic trio (along with Abnegazar and Rath) who were featured sporadically in the original Justice League of America comic book series.
- Ghasts are a stronger breed of ghoul in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game.
- Ghasts are weak creatures, similar to ghosts, in Joseph Delaney's series of books, The Wardstone Chronicles.
The word "ghast" may either be a recent back-formation, arising from either the word "ghastly", which came from Anglo-Saxon gāstlīc = "like a ghost"; or the word "aghast", from the Middle English gāstēn to frighten. Or alternatively Lovecraft may have derived it directly from the Anglo-Saxon form of the word ghost: gāst.
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