THE HOUND is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in 1922 and first published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales.

The story is narrated by one of two decadent grave-robbers obsessed with morbid curiosities and the occult. Seeking ever-greater thrills, they exhume a burial mound in Holland and steal a jade amulet from the centuries-old grave of a supposed ghoul. From that moment on, they are haunted by a terrifying, unseen entity—a monstrous hound-like being that brings death and madness in its wake.