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.
  • In the game RuneScape, Ghasts are evil spirits that rot food when the player is in the Mort-Myre Swamp.
  • Ghasts are a type of un-dead foe which appear in the Athroza Quicksands section of the Zertinian Caverns in the 2006 Square Enix game Final Fantasy XII
  • 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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